Growing SMEs

Your business is scaling. Your supply chain is holding it back.

Every month, stockouts, procurement overruns and blind operations erode your margins by 20 to 30%. NovaFlow is the specialist consultancy that restructures your logistics chain end to end (inbound/outbound flows, procurement policy, inventory management, distribution network) while embedding AI and business intelligence into every solution deployed.

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Flows & Procurement

Inventory & Distribution

AI & Data-Driven Management

–25% logistics costs

DIAGNOSTIC

Three Fractures Holding Back Your Growth

You see logistics as a cost line. Your fastest-growing competitors have turned it into a competitive advantage. Here are the three structural fractures costing African SMEs between 20 and 30% of their revenue. And you can fix them.

STRATEGY & ORGANISATION

No supply chain direction

No formalised strategy

Your logistics is seen as a cost centre (transport, warehousing, handling), never as a competitive lever for customer service, cash flow or differentiation. The result: no roadmap, no priorities, no strategic oversight.

Fragmented organisation

Procurement reports to sales. Inventory is managed by production. Transport is negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Without cross-functional coordination or Sales & Operations Planning governance, each department optimises its own silo at the expense of overall performance.

Insufficient skills

Few team members trained in modern logistics. Heavy reliance on empirical practices. A near-absent planning culture. The business is growing, but the methods remain artisanal.

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OPERATIONAL PROCESSES

Processes that burn through your cash

Costly procurement

Volumes not pooled. Suppliers not negotiated under framework agreements. Import lead times stretched by customs complexity and distant sourcing. You pay more and wait longer than you should.

Poorly managed inventory

No formalised policy: no ABC classification, no safety stock, no reorder thresholds. The result: stockouts that lose you sales and overstock that ties up your cash, especially in food processing and distribution.

Approximate planning

Production planned day to day. Poorly synchronised flows between procurement, manufacturing and shipping. Cascading delays that generate hidden costs every cycle.

Informal distribution

Carriers without contracts, with no mileage tracking or delivery guarantees. The last mile, the one your customers see, is your weakest link.

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SYSTEMS & DATA

You're flying blind

Near-zero digitalisation

Orders on Excel. Inventory on paper. Deliveries managed by phone. Your operations rely on tools that produce no reliable history, no traceability and no basis for decision-making.

No performance indicators

No service rate measured. No stock turnover calculated. No real logistics cost identified. Without KPIs, you cannot steer. Without steering, margins erode and nobody knows where.

20-30%of revenue lost to logistics inefficiencies. Every month.

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OUR METHOD

The 3 Pillars of Your Supply Chain Transformation

Each pillar directly addresses an identified fracture. We structure, optimise and digitalise, in that order.

STRATEGY & ORGANISATION01

Laying the foundations

Strategic diagnostic and flow mapping. Target logistics organisation with Sales & Operations Planning governance. Targeted training programme for your teams.

OPERATIONAL PROCESSES02

Optimise what costs you

Procurement and sourcing overhaul (framework agreements, volume pooling). Inventory optimisation (ABC, safety stocks, reorder thresholds). Planning synchronised to actual demand. Distribution network contracted and made reliable.

SYSTEMS & DATA03

Steer with data

Deployment of SME-adapted tools (lightweight ERP/WMS, TMS, dashboards). Supply chain KPIs and monthly management routines. Automation and AI integrated so you anticipate rather than react.

DIGITALISATION100 %

RESULTS

What Our Clients Experience

Concrete results, measured and documented on every engagement.

+30%

Cash flow released

Optimised inventory, overstock eliminated, faster capital turnover.

x2

Operational capacity

Structured processes and adapted tools that absorb growth without multiplying headcount.

-25%

Logistics costs

Pooled procurement, optimised delivery routes, structural inefficiencies removed.

100%

Full visibility on your flows

Real-time KPIs, dashboards and management routines for fast, informed decisions.

YOUR NEXT STEP

Is Your Logistics Holding Back Your Growth?

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