About
Our story
Grasshopper Ant’s unusual name is a nod to the globally recognised Aesop fable about the Ant and Grasshopper. The Ant worked hard in prosperity to prepare a war chest of supplies in hard times. The Grasshopper celebrated and languished in prosperity and notoriety – meeting an untimely end after failing to plan ahead.
Aesop’s ‘Grasshopper Ant’ fable reminds us to put work before play because it’s more important to things you need to do, before doing the things you want to do.
Our colony
Established in 2019 by business leader Annie Spilsbury, an experienced innovator in supply chain management, 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 to pinpoint areas of operational expenditure and indirect spending that can be re-negotiated, right sized or updated, with minimal impact to the organisation’s day-to-day operations.
With a proven track record of engaging and mobilising teams to achieve outstanding supply chain results, Grasshopper Ant takes a heuristic approach to supply chain transformation and value realisation.
Our ecology
Grasshopper Ant works with organisations with revenues ranging from £0.040 billion to £4 billion. Our niche is in the Private Equity sector where there is the strongest appetite and focus for achieving rapid cost reduction and synergy realisation.
Grasshopper Ant’s first wedge is the ability to leverage basic spend or budget data, employing virtual data analysis to identify spending patterns and insights in Supply Chain Exception Management (SCEM). Our SCEM advisory works effectively in carve outs, acquisitions and integrations. These services prove highly valuable when deployed in the clean room during the due diligence phase, where insights are triangulated with external market and supplier data, informing the initial cost reduction and value synergies.
Grasshopper Ant can apply their data expertise to offer clients a clear view of opportunities by supplier, region, entity, manufacturing site, or business unit, accurately pinpointing areas where supply chain exceptions exist and within which spend phasing.
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Your nest eggs
Grasshopper Ant operates across all indirect sectors and remains sector-neutral. In today’s 2024 market, the key spend areas generating successful cost reduction outcomes for improved services and performance include:
- IT – Operations & cloud optimisation
- AI – Internal and 3rd party deployment
- Marketing – media & digital investment
- Legacy supply chains – supply chain right sizing
- Professional services
- Customer communications
An army of ants
Grasshopper Ant supports workstream delivery by deploying commercial, market, and supply chain experts to assess, negotiate, and mediate supply chain results. Our resources can be delivered through either on-site support (bums on seats!) or light-touch support to keep internal teams on track with deliverables.
Our collaborative approach includes coaching and upskilling client teams to independently manage workstream outcomes. Establishing clear success metrics and workstream goals empowers in-house client teams to self-serve.
Our private equity work
Grasshopper Ant provide forensic level visibility and insights on provision of very basic ‘bad data’. We start work in the clean room phase, analysing data and supply chain synergies, developing robust Day 1 strategies to deploy.
We develop a war chest of opportunities to enable client’s to meet their EBITDA objectives – sensitively blended with an understanding of the challenges within the organisational environment.
Often working alongside existing procurement teams and the wider organisation, the strategies are embedded within the client’s steady state of delivery – ensuring that the 100 day phase is optimised with value realisation successfully targeted.
Midaxo is a technology platform that enables enterprises to manage corporate dealmaking in a single platform with SaaS solutions for Finding, Evaluating, and Delivering Deal Value that increase team productivity 5x while reducing risk.
Grasshopper Ant’s technology is deployed within Midaxo’s technology environment to accelerate cost synergy realisation.
Grasshopper Ant Ltd
2 Russell Street
Bath
BA1 2QF
Company no: 11877182
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