Supply Chain Challenges and How Successful Businesses Have Addressed Them

With a wide-ranging background in procurement, business process optimisation, strategic planning, and cost reduction, EFM Ireland Associate Tom Brennan takes the view that supply chain management must support and contribute to these business objectives, rather than functioning as an isolated discipline in its own right.

Iconic International Foodstuffs Brand: Growth and Efficiency

Brought in to strengthen the financial management and business performance of one of Europe’s best-known Irish tea and coffee brands, across its retail, café, and contract catering operations, Tom Brennan pursued a wide-ranging brief covering procurement, business process optimisation, strategic planning, cost reduction, and competitive analysis.

Financial review for Dublin based family restaurant

As a result of the lockdown, the company’s customers, tourists, office workers, shoppers, and students disappeared overnight.

Clarity on CashFlow for Irish Retail Chain

A retail chain in Ireland was losing money and had run into cashflow problems. Their suppliers were no longer prepared to supply goods on credit and all purchases had to be paid for in cash before delivery. The company’s staff retention had also become a major problem.