SAOS | What We Do - Supply Chain Development

About us

Scotland’s experts on farmer co-ops and food industry collaboration, we provide a range of specialist information, development and consultancy services to help businesses work together more effectively. #workingtogether we grow

What we do

Now more than ever, it’s vital for farmers and food and drink businesses to work together more effectively - all of SAOS’s work centres on facilitating this.

Membership

As a development organisation, owned by our members, we provide a range of specialist services not available elsewhere, to assist them in developing their people and their businesses. Get in touch to find out how we can help you.

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Working across all food and drink industry sectors, we address emerging issues and opportunities, identifying practical solutions to highly complex supply chain challenges. We focus on understanding the market opportunity and the barriers to growth, using insights to develop 'fit for purpose' sustainable solutions that can deliver improvement and value throughout the chain.

Our Team and Partnerships

The SAOS Team has a wealth of supply chain knowledge and experience and provides advice and support through its various business workstreams.

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Our Objectives

Our key objective is to provide practical solutions and support to overcome supply chain challenges and barriers to growth.

Our Objectives

Our current work includes

Supply Chain Insights

Supply Chain Insights provide overviews of Scotland’s key food and drink sectors, facts and figures summaries, research reports on new opportunities, case studies and access to market intelligence reports.

Sustainability

The three elements of sustainability in supply chains – economic, environmental and social - are key to how we approach sustainability across the supply chain.

Resilience

Risk management and vulnerability in supply chains to shocks such as Brexit, Covid, the war in Ukraine, etc. are key considerations for business resilience. SAOS provides expert advice on actions supply chains can take to mitigate risks.

Developing New Opportunities and Adding Value

SAOS works with a wide range of partners to help open new routes to market at local, regional, national and international levels; identify ways to add more value to products; reduce waste and improve profitability and efficiency through collaboration with supply chain partners.

Network and Partnership Building

This is at the core of what we do, as we believe the best way to tackle many of the major issues facing us is by working together to share expertise and develop collaborative solutions.