Lion New Zealand

With a legacy going back over 180 years, Lion NZ employs around 1,000 people across Australasia’s largest brewery, several craft breweries, a winery, and two coffee roasteries. 

The company was facing challenges in its operations due to the complexity of its product range and the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The parent company, Kirin, had set high expectations for performance, but with a general decline in beer consumption over the last few decades, the mechanism to identify gaps to the longer-term expectations and generate sustainable gap-closing plans needed strengthening.

The company engaged Oliver Wight to improve its Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and weekly Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) processes with the goal of more effectively managing both short-term execution and longer-term strategic goals.