What We Do
Specialist expertise for complex challenges.
Westone helps organisations understand complex environments, assess risks and opportunities, and develop practical strategies for decision-making.
Food Security
Food security is influenced by markets, trade, sourcing, logistics, infrastructure and strategic reserves. We help organisations understand their exposure to disruption and assess the availability, affordability and resilience of food supplies.
Areas of work
- —Food security assessment
- —Food import dependency
- —Food and commodity markets
- —Sourcing and supplier assessment
- —Strategic reserves
- —Food supply disruption
- —Food security strategy
- —Feasibility and strategic assessment
Supply Chains & Resilience
Supply chains operate across multiple suppliers, markets and transport networks. We help organisations identify critical dependencies, assess vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience.
Areas of work
- —Supply-chain mapping
- —Risk and vulnerability assessment
- —Supplier and sourcing strategy
- —Disruption analysis
- —Scenario planning
- —Inventory and buffer assessment
- —Logistics and trade-route analysis
- —Resilience strategy
Markets & Forecasting
Westone combines market intelligence, forecasting and analytical approaches to help organisations understand changing conditions and assess their potential implications.
Areas of work
- —Market intelligence
- —Demand and price forecasting
- —Forecast evaluation
- —Trade and pricing analysis
- —Company and supplier intelligence
- —Scenario analysis
- —Early-warning indicators
- —Market and feasibility assessment
Decision Intelligence
We bring together market information, trade data, company intelligence, procurement information and supply-chain analysis to develop a clearer understanding of changing conditions.
Areas of work
- —Trade
- —Pricing
- —Supply
- —Companies
- —Markets
- —Procurement
- —Supply-chain risk
Decision Intelligence
Turning information into better decisions.
“The value of information depends on the decision it supports.”
We bring together market information, trade data, company intelligence, procurement information and supply-chain analysis to develop a clearer understanding of changing conditions.
How We Work
From evidence to better decisions.
Every engagement begins with the question that needs to be answered. We identify the relevant evidence, analyse the available information and make uncertainty explicit. Our work may combine quantitative analysis, market intelligence, research and specialist expertise depending on the nature of the problem.
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Work with Westone
A clear and defensible basis for action.
If you are facing a complex food-security, market, supply-chain or strategic question, we would be pleased to discuss how Westone can help.