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Hire a supply chain expert in Greece and Cyprus
Planning, inventory, and logistics that work as one system, from someone who has run supply chains through real disruptions.
Most Greek and Cypriot companies that import, make, or move goods run their supply chain on habit: ordering when stock looks low, warehousing where the lease happened to be, trusting the supplier because the relationship is old. The last few years punished thin chains and exposed comfortable ones. A supply chain expert replaces habit with discipline: sales and operations planning that connects the commercial forecast to purchasing, inventory treated as the working capital it is, distribution and warehouse operations that were designed rather than accumulated, and supplier arrangements built for disruption, not only for the quiet years.
The supply chain experts on Hellenic Talent come from senior supply chain and logistics roles in industry, from top consultancies, and from Big 4 operations practices. They know the physical realities of this market: goods arriving by sea, island distribution, demand that swings with the tourist season, and the importers, manufacturers, and retailers who live with all three.
What does a supply chain expert actually do?
- Establish where stock, service, and cost actually stand before proposing any change
- Build a sales and operations planning rhythm that connects the commercial forecast to purchasing and production
- Bring inventory under discipline: what to hold, where, and in what depth, with the working capital consequences on the table
- Design the distribution network and warehouse operations around how goods actually flow, not how the leases fell
- Test supplier dependencies and build resilience where a single failure would stop the business
- Make the trade-off between stock, service, and cost an explicit decision instead of an accident
How to choose the right supply chain expert
What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.
Industry, not the desk
Has run supply chains in industry, not only modelled them from a consulting desk.
Sea freight and islands
Knows the physical realities of this market: sea freight, island distribution, and seasonal peaks.
Inventory as cash
Talks about inventory in terms of cash and service, not only in units.
Walks the floor first
Starts from your data and your warehouse floor, not from a reference model.
Sizes the system to you
Chooses systems and tools to fit the company rather than the other way round.
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Tell us what you are trying to get done
A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right supply chain expert for it.
Engagements run remote, hybrid, or on-site, for clients in Greece, Cyprus, and the rest of the world.