Supplier Dependency Review
We map how your operations depend on key suppliers across sites — identifying where concentration, fragmentation, or thin documentation creates risk your team doesn't currently have the bandwidth to address.
Multi-Site Supplier Resilience · Operations Advisory
Multi-site supplier risk. Clearly addressed.
Support for operations teams who are capable but stretched — when supplier dependency across sites becomes a risk you need to see clearly.
We work with operations directors managing fragmented supplier contracts across multiple sites. Our work produces briefs, decision records and structured recommendations your team can act on — without commissioning a heavyweight transformation programme.
Practical advisory work, not a transformation programme.
We use interviews, document review, market sense-checking and structured comparison to help operations teams understand and manage supplier dependency across sites.
Stakeholder & Supplier Interviews
Structured interviews with internal stakeholders and, where relevant, suppliers give us a picture of relationship health, dependency patterns, and operational assumptions that rarely appear in contract documents.
Market Sense-Checking
We benchmark incumbent arrangements against the available market — without commissioning a full retender. The result is a practical comparison note your team can use to inform decisions or support negotiations.
Structured Recommendations
We produce briefs, decision records, service notes and structured recommendations in formats your team can use directly — clear, documented judgement with no jargon and no slide deck requiring a separate explainer.
Most supplier risk doesn't look like a crisis — until it is.
Operations teams managing multiple sites often hold more supplier dependency than anyone has formally documented. Contracts written for one site get rolled out across three. Key relationships sit in people's heads, not in files.
We offer a free initial conversation. No programme to sell, no retainer to sign. Just a straightforward discussion about whether the work we do is relevant to what your team is dealing with.
Advisory support that fits how operations teams actually work.
We provide judgement and structured output, not a programme. Independent, practical, and sized for teams that are stretched rather than absent.
No Transformation Required
We provide advisory and operational support — structured work your team can act on. We're not trying to become your procurement function or sell you a multi-year programme.
Genuine Independence
We have no supplier affiliations, preferred partner lists, or referral arrangements. The analysis we produce reflects what we find — not what we're incentivised to recommend.
Outputs You Can Use
We produce briefs, decision records and service notes in plain language — documents that hold their value after the engagement and that your team can act on without needing us to interpret them.
Sized for Stretched Teams
We work with operations directors whose teams are capable but not resourced to run a supplier resilience review alongside everything else. We fit around your capacity, not the other way round.
Example Engagement
3 sites
Fourteen supplier contracts reviewed across three manufacturing locations
An operations director managing three UK sites was responsible for supplier relationships across fourteen service contracts — several of which pre-dated the company's current ownership structure. No single person had a clear picture of total dependency or exposure. Northmere Procurement conducted stakeholder interviews, reviewed the contract portfolio, and produced a structured brief covering dependency risk, recommended priority actions, and a market comparison note for three key categories.
— UK Manufacturing Operations
"Your team knows the business.
We map the risk they haven't had time to see."
How we work
We understand your operations before we look at your contracts.
Most supplier risk reviews start with the contracts. We start with the people managing them. Here's how a typical engagement runs:
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Stakeholder Interviews
We talk to the people who manage supplier relationships day-to-day — operations managers, site leads, internal procurement contacts — to understand what the contracts don't say.
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Document Review
We work through existing contracts, service records and internal notes to map what's formally in place, where gaps exist, and where obligations are unclear or misaligned with how operations actually run.
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Market Sense-Checking
Where relevant, we check incumbent arrangements against current market pricing and terms — not a full retender, but enough to give your team a useful reference point for any decisions or conversations that follow.
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Structured Output
We produce a brief, decision record or service note in plain language — a document that holds its value after the engagement and that your team can act on without needing us to interpret it.
Start a conversation.
If you're an operations director managing supplier relationships across multiple sites and want an independent view, we're straightforward to talk to.
Location
Based in Yorkshire, working across the UK