Supply Base Consultancy
The Supply Base is a high-value asset. Underperformance not only leads to higher cost, but to lost value and risks to operations.
ASCO helps organisations design and build high performing new facilities and transform the operating efficiency of existing bases. Our consultancy teams have decades of collective experience in identifying and planning every aspect of supply base operations and infrastructure, from physical layout to best practice operating procedures. Working with ASCO ensures long-term sustained performance of your critical supply base asset.
Solving the challenges of underperformance on the supply base
Through structured audits, benchmarking, and data-driven insights, we identify where processes can be simplified, systems better aligned, and performance elevated. Working alongside your teams, we turn analysis into action - driving measurable improvements across people, processes, technology, and supply chains. The result is a supply base operation that runs seamlessly and strategically, supporting your wider business goals with safety, efficiency, and consistency at every level.
Governance
Effective governance ensures materials are in the right place, at the right time, supporting safe, efficient supply base operations and on-schedule project delivery. Our consultancy services include:
- Establishing standardised processes, SOPs, and policies.
- Defining roles, ownership, and accountability.
- Ensuring data integrity and system alignment.
- Implementing KPIs, audits, and performance reviews.
Strategy & policy
A clear, enterprise-wide strategy and policy framework aligns supply base operations with business priorities. Our services include:
- Developing enterprise-wide strategies linking operations, projects, and shutdowns to business goals
- Standardising policies and procedures for inventory, warehouse, and supplier practices
- Embedding continuous improvement and digital enablement
Operations Transformation
Driving efficiency in a Supply Base impacts much more than the operations on the Base itself. A highly effective operating supply base drives efficiency and uptime across the entire Project and Operations of your assets. We work with organisations who are being adversely impacted by poor supply base execution to identify challenges, risks and opportunities for improvement. The end result is a transformation of safety, efficiency and reliability that delivers value far greater than the sum of its parts.
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Safety:
Evaluation, audit and removal of safety risks, either through mechanical, infrastructure or procedural changes -
Operations design:
Process optimisation based on global best practice. Target of reducing and ultimately removing process driven non-productive time. -
Asset optimisation:
Mapping of the right plant/equipment (numbers and specification) to effectively deliver the volumes of work at the facility. -
Competence and Structure
Identifying whether the base has the right people, in the right roles, with the right competency to execute the desired goals.
Integrated services
