The Authors
Dr. Phil Streatfield, Partner, LCP Consulting
Phil is a Partner at LCP Consulting. He is a commercially-oriented supply chain professional with many years’ experience of improving supply chain performance within multiple industries. His passion is to drive costs down, drive customer service levels up and cash in. He has worked in retail, FMCG, wholesale and pharmaceuticals businesses. Phil has over a decade of board-level experience with accountability for supply chain strategy development and implementation working within businesses such as GSK, Woolworths, and Lloyds Pharmacy. He has delivered sustainable breakthrough performance improvements in complex global and European supply chains. His functional experience spans retail, manufacturing, procurement, merchandising, all elements of logistics and IT plus the management of transformational organisational change.
A recognised industry thought leader, Phil is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University and a CILT and CIPS fellow. He is a published author, a frequent speaker at industry events and a regular judge of Retail Week’s Supply Chain awards.
Stuart Higgins, Partner, LCP Consulting
Stuart is a commercially oriented supply chain and logistics executive and a Partner at LCP Consulting. He has a passion for delivering real business improvements in retail, FMCG and 3PL sectors across global and European supply chains. His operational career has been characterised by performance turnaround and the management of significant change projects, delivering significant sales growth, reducing working capital, driving on-shelf availability, reducing operating costs, out-sourcing, in-sourcing, managing end-to-end systems implementations and re-invigorating functional teams for the future.
Stuart has held board level accountability for supply chain, trading and merchandising functions and has experience of operating both in competitive, customer-focused markets and demanding, fast-moving businesses such as Heinz, Boots, Halfords and Thresher Wines. A recognised industry thought leader, Stuart is a frequent speaker at industry events and a regular commentator on retail issues in the business media.