Do you want to build a sustainable food business?

Then why would you start it on an unstable foundation?

Build a stable foundation now –
before it is too late – and allow your business to grow smoother while you stay on top of your daily operations.

Do you need support to build an efficient and reliable operations foundation?

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Do you want to enable your business to scale up smoothly and as a lean organization or simply want to build your own business that can be managed easily with minimal efforts?

Why would you want to reinvent the wheel if you can can learn from the experience of others? Avoiding unnecessary mistakes, which are a waste of time and energy, can make your start-up life much easier.

Therefore, I am sharing my knowledge as a sparring partner to make the process of building your business easier. My focus is on food start-up consulting, with which I have the most experience, but I am also happy if I can help other start-ups and impact organizations build better foundations.

The experience I share

A good operations foundation is a success factor to scale up as you need to keep your business running and reduce risks to make it successful. Below, you can find a short presentation with the benefits of an effective organization and an efficient operations setup for a food start-up. It also gives a short overview of some structures and processes that I recommend.

I continue gathering all of my learnings from different food start-ups to develop a guideline how to build a food start-up with a focus on operations and supply-chain management, but also with structures, tools and ideas to facilitate more reliable and efficient processes for the other departments. Once this complete “playbook” is ready, I will be able to share written tips in addition to the experience on my mind.

Specific services I’m offering to build successful food start-ups:

  • Building a farsighted operations & fulfillment setup for multichannel sales incl. retail

  • Project management for the launch of food start-ups or new product categories

  • Sparring and modelling of the initial business strategy

  • Suggesting and establishing basic, but reliable and efficient internal processes and structures across all departments to prepare for scaling up

My operations approach

In order to build an operations setup for successful food start-ups, I’m using the same approach as for operations optimizations because the objective is to establish a long-lasting solution straight from the start. You can read more about my operations optimization approach here or in the presentation below.

Build a stable foundation now – before it is too late – and allow your business to grow smoother while you stay on top of your daily operations.
The later you start, the more difficult it becomes
Your first operations processes and structures don’t need to last as long as these pyramids…
…but they should work well for your first business plan and until you reach the sales where your business could first become profitable.
Establish the following structures before the first “ready-to-scale product” is sold to retailers to reduce future chaos*
Some indications that your food business needs to scale up:
The more automatizations, efficient processes and farsighted structures you can build before a multi-channel launch, the easier will be your daily business
Stay on top of your daily operations and avoid…
“Avoid getting lost in a jungle of incomplete and unstructured data”
Get prepared for scaling up with large fluctuations – especially when entering nationwide retailers
Enable your business to scale up as a lean organization with:
Make efficient and reliable operations one of your business success factors
Operations advantages…to outperform competition
My operations approach and operations values
Clearly structuring the complexity with a long-lasting solution:
Orientating on my four Operations values
Supporting your organization service- and solution-oriented
Leveraging my experiences and strengths for your project
Do you need support to build an efficient and reliable operations foundation? Would you like to prepare for scaling up?

Did I spark your interest?

Do you have any questions or want to get in touch for a non-binding introduction meeting (free of charge)? Please send me a short description of your project and current challenges via this form and I will get back to you as soon as possible.