Delivering complex manufacturing change

Manufacturing organisations are under pressure to modernise technology, improve operational resilience and increase efficiency without disrupting the production, supply chain and customer operations that keep the business moving. We bring industry-led expertise that enables transformation while maintaining control across complex digital change.

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Manufacturing programmes succeed when operations, technology and suppliers align

With SmartCo, priorities become clearer, risk is reduced and delivery becomes structured, transparent and predictable across complex manufacturing environments.

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Production led direction

Technology decisions aligned to operational priorities, commercial outcomes and the realities of manufacturing environments.

Connected leadership

Business, technology, supply chain, plant and vendor teams working together around one delivery plan.

Specialist delivery capability

Senior expertise across ERP, applications, data, infrastructure and technology separation, with an understanding of complex operational estates.

Operational visibility

Risks, dependencies and system impacts identified early, before they affect production, service continuity, customers or commercial performance.

SmartCo helped us create a structure in the early stages of our AI journey. They understood that scaling AI safely needed clear governance, ownership and architecture behind it. Their work gave us a much more controlled way to move AI initiatives forward with the right guardrails in place.

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What is at stake in manufacturing

Delayed transformation programmes increasing cost and operational risk
Legacy applications limiting efficiency, automation and data visibility
Fragmented systems making it harder to manage production, supply chain and finance performance
Poor adoption reducing the value of new platforms and ways of working
Complex supplier and vendor landscapes creating delivery risk and unclear accountability
Production disruption caused by poorly sequenced technology change
Limited visibility across plants, suppliers and systems slowing decision-making

Cloud, Infra & FinOps

Modernising and migrating core environments.

Apps & Systems

Optimising the applications critical to production and supply operations.

Data & Platforms

Unlocking insight and automation  across markets and functions.

AI

Strengthening governance and reducing regulatory and audit risk

Cyber, Risk & Compliance

Strengthening governance and reducing regulatory and audit risk.

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Why organisations need structural delivery support

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Need clarity around strategic
investment decisions
Compliance deadlines
driving urgent action
ERP upgrade becoming
unmanageable
Cloud migration putting
operations at risk
Internal IT overloaded
with BAU
Specialist delivery
expertise is missing
Divestment creating
IT separation pressure
Global systems losing
delivery momentum

A simple delivery model

Our award winning delivery model allows you to
prove value quickly, then scale delivery with control.

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Deliver

Practical direction grounded in real delivery experience, not strategies that gather dust.

Advise

Experience-led, hands-on execution that brings the capacity and capability your team needs.

Optimise

End-to-end support that drives adoption, cuts costs and makes sure the project keeps delivering.

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Cloud & application optimisation for a global life sciences organisation

Situation: LGC needed to strengthen security, modernise applications and infrastructure, and support technology transformation across multiple business units.

What we did: Provided advisory and delivery support across cloud, applications and security, including Azure and M365 improvements, Labware enhancements, architecture reviews and transformation roadmaps.

Outcome: Created a more secure, scalable and resilient technology estate, enabling LGC to accelerate transformation and unlock long-term operational improvements.

Critical technology separation for Reckitt

Situation: Complex global divestment required rapid technology separation across 70 brands and 100+ countries.

What we did: Mobilised specialist project managers to lead application, data, platform & vendor workstreams, delivering governance, oversight, & hands-on execution across the programme.

Outcome: Accelerated separation delivery by months, streamlining applications, data and vendor environments while reducing programme risk.

Defining the future of Walgreen’s warehouse operations

Situation: Legacy warehouse systems and manual processes were limiting efficiency, creating uncertainty around future technology investment decisions.

What we did: Reviewed warehouse operations, identified improvement opportunities & assessed technology options to support future strategic decision-making.

Outcome: Delivered a clear roadmap to improve operations, inform technology investment & support future warehouse strategy decisions.

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We typically deploy senior experts within 24 to 48 hours of engagement confirmation.

Yes. We remain fully independent and platform-neutral throughout every engagement.

Yes. Red-to-green recovery is a core strength across cloud, infrastructure and data.