About Oliver Sargent Advisory
Understanding, designing and delivering supply chain, procurement & buying innovation and change .
Oliver Sargent Advisory is about helping organisations better understand their supply chain, procurement and buying operations and how their ambitions can be realised. To support the organisation in driving innovation and change, through design and delivery. To do this, I consider a broad range of drivers: cost, service, capacity, people, risk, data, systems, sustainability and emissions, internal stakeholders, investors, customers and suppliers. I bring a unique and diverse set of supply chain, procurement and buying experiences (refer to some of my case studies below), often from adjacent or different sectors, to challenge and innovate.
About Oliver Sargent Advisory
My Mission
To provide high-quality Supply Chain, Procurement and Buying expertise and advice to Government, Private and Not-for-Profit sectors. To support boards and executive management teams with innovation, growth and productivity. To gift 50% of my time to not-for-profit organisations, so they can better support communities and others in need.
Who am I?
I am a senior advisor with over 30 years of Supply Chain, Procurement & Buying experience.
My experience has focused on advising private and public sector executive teams and boards with a strong drive for tangible outcomes. I have worked in depth across various sectors: Retail, Consumer Goods, Health, Defence Industries, Distribution & Logistics, Manufacturing, and Agri Businesses. Project and Programs I have led and delivered span strategy development, short-term performance improvement programs, to multi-year transformation programs bringing lasting and strategic change to organisations' Supply Chains, Procurement, and Buying functions.
Key areas of my Supply Chain, Procurement and Buying expertise include:
• Supply chain network design,
• Distribution & logistics design and optimisation,
• Procurement & buying diagnostics,
• Complex procurement & buying commercial processes (development and running),
• Operational improvement across supply chain procurement and buying functions,
• Transformation strategy planning and execution,
• Strategy facilitation and development,
• Acquisition, integration, disposal, carve-out: planning, diligence and execution,
• Business development, organic business building from the ground up.
This experience is built on a strong quantitative mindset (data matters), ability to operate from strategy to operational detail, deep understanding of risk across all dimensions, strong listening and coaching approach, and respect for people and clients’ perspectives and insights.
