Grasshopper
Ant

What we do

Established in 2019, Grasshopper Ant has introduced a unique approach that blends finance data and market insights with best in class supply chain expertise. Delivering a unique advisory service that rapidly translates budget and spend data into cost out opportunities.

Grasshopper Ant works alongside finance and department heads in organisations ranging from £0.040bn to £4bn in revenue, providing a niche supply chain diagnostic service: Supply Chain Exception Management (SCEM).

Grasshopper Ant’s SCEM service addresses areas among organisation’s supply chain requiring rapid organisational acceleration:

Cost & Value Release	2nd & 3rd Tier Supply Chain Mapping
ESG and Sustainability	Risk Identification
Human Rights	Supplier & Process Modernisation
Legacy Supply Chains and Contracts	“Rapid” Workstream Support

With a proven track record of engaging and mobilising teams to achieve outstanding supply chain results, Grasshopper Ant takes a heuristic approach to SCEM.

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Identifying SCEM in…

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Cost and Value Release

Using spend and budgetary data, we identify supply chain exceptions within the client’s data, triangulating external market/supply data and internal benchmarking leading to insights that deliver opportunities of cost reduction, consolidation or transformation.

Tangible results are evident from six weeks, measured against bottom line impacting cost out.

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ESG and Human Rights

Deploying data insights alongside Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify supply chains for engagement in corporate policy management and measurement.

Ability to measure carbon weighting in supply chains to create automated reporting and risk identification and improvement.

Operating in the private and public sectors supporting the path to Net Zero.

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Private Equity

Triangulating target data insights alongside market and current deal data – SCEM diagnostics identify cost out synergies that can be rapidly deployed to impact EBITDA.

Working pre or post acquisition, tangible results are delivered in weeks through remote or on-site services.

Ability to accelerate supply chain outcomes through active engagements across indirect spend and market place negotiation outcomes.

Grasshopper Ant’s unique supply chain exception management service has grown by word of mouth. Proudly working across private sector, public sector and private equity.

We work with clients from multiple sectors ranging from Information Technology, Healthcare, FMCG, Manufacturing, Logistics, Utilities, Finance, Insurance, Media, Engineering, Pharmaceutical, Travel & Tourism.

Cost reduction delivery

Human rights

ESG and Sustainability

Risk Identification

Supply Chain Transformation