Trace materials, packaging, stock, waste, returns, supplier pricing and operating losses that put pressure on contribution.
ABOUT GBR
Senior support where cost, operations and customer requirements meet.
GBR is a founder led advisory business for UK product SMEs. We help owners and managers make sense of issues that cut across commercial performance, suppliers, operations and sustainability requirements.
WHY I BUILT GBR
Smaller businesses face complex decisions without the specialist teams of a large corporate. GBR is built to give owners and managers experienced support without adding unnecessary process. The aim is to identify what matters, make the trade-offs clear and leave the business with a usable next step.
Artur Brikman
Founder · Independent advisor
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MBA in Sustainability Management
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Operations, sustainability and environmental compliance experience
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Former sustainability management experience in aviation
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Legal and regulatory background
OUR EXPERTISE
Useful when the issue crosses teams.
The work is strongest where finance, operations, suppliers and customer requirements are all part of the same problem.
Clarify flow, ownership, KPIs, bottlenecks, quality and capacity where execution is becoming harder to manage.
Improve visibility of supplier performance, dependency, continuity and missing information that could affect cost or service.
Organise the information retailers, tenders, procurement teams and larger customers ask for, without creating a reporting system the business does not need.
HOW WE WORK
Simple rules for how we work.
Business value first
We start with margin, customers, operations or risk. Sustainability matters when it changes the business case.
Fit the business
The solution should match the team, data and management capacity available. More process is not automatically better.
Leave with a next step
The work should make the next decision clearer, with owners, dates and measures where they are useful.
TALK TO GBR
Have a margin, supplier or customer evidence problem?
Bring the issue as it is. It does not need to be turned into a consulting brief first.