We design solutions for your supply chain challenges.Then we deliver them, together with your team.

Innostaa is a supply chain consulting and project management business in Auckland, New Zealand. We have more than 30 years of experience in the design of supply chains. And we stay to make the change happen.

Contact us Projects we have delivered

How we work

One team, from the first analysis to the last day of the change.

Assess

We measure your supply chain. We find the causes of the problem, not only the symptoms.

Design

We design the solution: network, processes, systems and organisation.

Deliver

We manage the project with your team. We stay until the change is complete.

Embed

We train your people. We make sure the new way of work continues after we leave.

Design

Many consultants can write a strategy. We create designs that your team can put into practice. Our designs are based on your data, your unique business environment, and on our deep experience. We do not do “blue skies” analysis.

Delivery with your team

The designed change is only a plan until your people operate it. We work inside your organisation. We manage the project, the suppliers and the systems. Your team learns the new processes alongside our delivery. When we finish, the capability stays with you.

What we do

Consulting and project management across the full supply chain.

Supply chain strategy

Vision, strategy and transformation programmes for complex organisations.

Distribution network design

Network configuration, cost-to-serve models and business cases for change.

Distribution centre design

Greenfield and existing warehouses, from concept to commissioning.

Warehouse automation

Design, supplier selection, integration and start-up of automated systems.

Planning and optimisation

S&OP, Integrated Business Planning and demand and supply optimisation.

Transport and 3PL operations

Implementation of transport, 3PL operations, and contract negotiation.

Supply chain systems

ERP, WMS and TMS selection, design, integration and implementation.

Procurement and vendor management

Strategic vendor management, supplier collaboration and performance metrics.

Programme and change management

Leadership of large programmes and of the people who must adopt the change.

Experience

Gijs Faber, founder and principal consultant.

Gijs Faber has 30 years of international experience in supply chain, procurement and IT. For 20 of those years, as executive supply chain leader, he led supply chain divisions with over 700 staff and budgets over NZ$1 billion.

He has worked in retail, FMCG, food and meat processing, building products, steel, timber, pharmaceuticals and animal health. His clients include multinational corporates and New Zealand businesses, in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

As a consultant and as an executive, he has kept close to the shop floor, where strategies and designs face hard reality, and where the change happens. He realised early on that this Japanese approach to both transformation and continuous improvement are essential to ensure sustained change, and embedding of transformation.

  • 30+years delivering supply chain transformation
  • 20years as an executive leader
  • 3continents — projects across Europe, Asia, Oceania
  • 700supply chain staff in the largest team led
  • 4advanced forecasting and planning projects implemented
  • 2greenfield automated DCs delivered
  • Supply chain vision and strategy
  • Supply chain transformation
  • Distribution network design and configuration
  • Distribution centre design and commissioning
  • Warehouse automation design and implementation
  • Transport, 3PL and 4PL operations start-up
  • Advanced planning and optimisation systems
  • Strategic vendor management
  • IT governance and systems implementation
  • Multinational programme management
  • Lean performance culture
  • Change management in regulated environments

Projects we delivered

For whom, what we did, and what we achieved.

Pharmaceutical Distribution

  • Programme management of the automation of two greenfield distribution centres.
  • Design and integration of SAP ERP, the warehouse management system and the automation from Schaefer and Dexion.
  • Management of the related logistics, organisation and process changes.
  • Two automated distribution centres in operation.
  • Compliance with New Zealand pharmaceutical and controlled substance regulations, confirmed by audit.

Dairy products manufacturer

  • Rapid reconfiguration of warehouse space and processes.
  • New supply chain planning, S&OP and execution processes.
  • Project management of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP redeployment, from supply chain through quality, compliance and finance.
  • More than 50% increase in storage capacity.
  • More than NZ$2 million per year reduction in 3PL costs.
  • Better planning visibility and agility.

Industrial property developer

  • Strategy and systems direction for a logistics park start-up.
  • Design and project management of warehouse configuration, automation and systems integration for turn-key automated distribution facilities.
  • A development of more than $150 million blueprinted.

Meat processor and exporter

  • Business architect of the supply chain transformation. We set up a new supply chain division.
  • Integrated Business Planning and demand and supply optimisation, to match seasonal supply with international demand.
  • New distribution strategy, and a 4PL transport management process and system for livestock.
  • Load-out capacity up more than 20%.
  • Labour for container loading down 70%, with better health and safety.
  • Rapid response to changes in export regulations during the Covid pandemic.

Pharmaceuticals distribution, Asia Pacific

  • Restructure of the distribution network in 10 countries, from national distributors to direct supply of vets and farms from 3PL distribution centres.
  • Negotiation of 3PL contracts across the region.
  • Roll-out of the SAP logistics solution and integration with 3PL warehouse systems.
  • One integrated, outsourced distribution network established and integrated across 10 countries.

Grocery wholesale and distribution

  • Supply chain vision, strategy and change programme in procurement, planning, distribution and systems.
  • Set-up of a 150-truck transport subsidiary as a 4PL provider.
  • Design and build of chilled, frozen and produce distribution centres.
  • Implementation of forecasting and replenishment, voice-directed warehouse management and transport optimisation systems.
  • A performance improvement programme, and a factory gate freight programme.
  • Productivity up more than 20% and throughput up more than 250%, postponing large capital investment in facilities.
  • A transport business with industry-leading profitability.

Department store retail

  • A detailed supply chain strategy in 60 days, for speed to market and total cost of logistics.
  • A 12-month programme in four streams: speed, planning, physical logistics and technical infrastructure.
  • An integrated IT architecture, and selection of a new merchandising and supply chain system.
  • Board approval of the capital investment.
  • Rapid improvement in supply chain performance KPIs.

Trans-Tasman timber business

NZ$1B trans-Tasman timber business · 1999 to 2001
  • Design of the supply chain structure across Australia and New Zealand.
  • Demand-driven S&OP across 11 manufacturing sites, with an advanced planning and optimisation system.
  • SAP implementation for the Australian business, and outsourcing of Australian warehousing.
  • SAP live in Australia in 7 months.
  • One supply chain operation for the two countries, with collaborative planning with the forestry division.

Steel products distribution

  • Supply chain strategy and operations structure for five business units in a merger.
  • New demand management, planning, distribution and procurement processes and organisation.
  • Advanced forecasting and planning system implementation.
  • Five supply chains integrated into one.
  • Vendor metrics and governance of overseas buying agencies in place.
  • S&OP planning process and system delivered.

Other projects

  • S&OP and IBP process design and systems for multinationals in North America and a fresh food manufacturer in Australia.
  • Inventory, warehouse and distribution design for a New Zealand rail provider.
  • Systems strategy, distribution strategy and business case for a New Zealand building products manufacturer.
  • Planning processes and systems in operation at each client.
  • For the building products manufacturer: a network model that showed more than $600,000 per year in transport savings, and prevented a decision that would add $8 million in freight cost.

Tell us about your supply chain challenges

Gijs Faber gijs.faber@innostaa.ai

Auckland, New Zealand