Supply Chain
& Turnaround.
90 Days. No Pretending.
For distressed retail and FMCG businesses: a structured 90-day diagnostic and turnaround roadmap covering operations, supply chain, margin recovery, and creditor management. Not a report — an intervention. Delivered remotely, starting with the hardest conversations first.
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Some Businesses Don’t Need Better Advice.
They Need Someone to Stop the Bleeding.
Distressed retail and FMCG businesses share a common pattern: cash is tightening, creditors are calling, the supply chain is unreliable, and margins have been eroded to the point where the operation cannot sustain itself. Most conventional advice at this stage is too slow, too strategic, and too expensive. RIDBS brings a structured 90-day intervention framework that addresses the immediate commercial crisis while building the foundations for sustainable recovery.
Five Pillars. Ninety Days. Triage First.
The turnaround framework is deliberately sequenced — the most urgent commercial bleeding is stopped first, then the structural causes are addressed, then the recovery is built on stable foundations. No phase begins until the previous one is secure.
Before anything can be fixed, the exact nature and scale of the crisis must be understood. The diagnostic framework maps every commercial, operational, and financial pressure point in the business — in Week 1 — so that interventions are targeted at the real causes, not the symptoms. Most distressed businesses have been treating symptoms for months. The diagnostic stops that and establishes the true picture.
The supply chain is almost always both a cause and an amplifier of retail distress. Overextended credit terms, over-reliance on single suppliers, poor ordering discipline, and bloated SKU counts all destroy cash flow and reliability simultaneously. The supply chain redesign rebuilds your supplier base from the ground up — prioritising cash flow, reliability, and margin in that order.
In most distressed retail businesses, margin has been eroded slowly across multiple categories over months or years — often without the owner understanding exactly where it went. The margin recovery plan identifies every GP% leakage point by category and produces a category-by-category recovery programme with specific targets, timelines, and accountability for each one.
The creditor and supplier negotiation in a distressed situation is the single highest-leverage activity in the entire turnaround. Done correctly, it buys time, restores supply, and often converts hostile creditor relationships into structured payment arrangements that keep the business trading. Done incorrectly — or not done at all — it accelerates the crisis. RIDBS prepares the strategy, the sequencing, and the scripts for every creditor conversation.
Cash flow is the oxygen of a distressed business. Most operators in crisis have no usable cash flow model — they are reacting to the bank balance daily without understanding what is coming. The 13-week cash flow model gives the owner a clear, week-by-week picture of every inflow and outflow, identifies the specific weeks of maximum pressure, and gives the RIDBS intervention a measurable financial target to work toward.
90-Day Turnaround Roadmap
Every phase is gated — the next phase does not begin until the previous one is secure. This is not a strategy document. It is a live operational programme.
If the Business Is Distressed,
Every Day Without Action Costs More Than the Intervention.
The first call costs nothing. RIDBS will tell you within 30 minutes whether the business is recoverable, what the immediate priorities are, and what a structured intervention looks like. That 30 minutes is the most commercially valuable conversation a distressed business owner can have.
No commitment required · RIDBS responds within 4 hours for distressed situations · Strictly confidential