Network Resilience Playbook
Flagship studio. You rebuild a multi-node Australian network under disruption: closed berth, failed co-packer, delayed harvest window.
Open the syllabusDoncaster Heights · Victoria
The map of a chain is not the chain. We work the joints.
19 yrsof network work in grocery, mining services, and agri-export
41live playbooks issued since 2019
6.5 wksmedian diagnostic on a single Australian network
8states and territories in the field notes
Notes from people who sat in the room
Each remark names a program or artefact from this studio. None of them are composite blurbs.
“The Network Resilience Playbook forced us to price a second inland lane we had been treating as free. Finance disliked the slide. Operations kept it.”
The Inventory Policy Intensive is slower than a two-day seminar. We still run the service-curve worksheet every quarter. I would have preferred a tighter homework load in week three.
4 / 5 — Port-to-Plant Flow named our dwell at Fishermans Bend without theatre. The spreadsheet they left is still the one on the wall.
Programs currently taught
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Inventory Policy Intensive
Service curves, review periods, and the politics of safety stock when finance owns the working-capital target.
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How the studio thinks
Business consulting for supply chain strategy is a drafting discipline
Australian distances punish vague network drawings. A “national DC” that looks elegant in a slide deck can hide a 14-hour linehaul, a harvest that arrives in three weeks, and a retail gate that will not take Sunday arrivals. We treat those constraints as design inputs, not exceptions.
Webfieldbase sits in Doncaster Heights and works with operators who already have ERP, planners, and a freight panel. What they usually lack is a shared geometry: which nodes exist for a reason, which buffers are political, and which supplier is carrying silent single-point risk.
The field method is written up separately. Programs exist so a team can rehearse the method on a live map rather than listen to a tour of frameworks.
What we refuse to leave implicit
Lane economics before node stickers
We cost the movement, the dwell, and the missed slot. A pretty node map without a lane table is decoration.
Supplier geometry, not a logo list
Dual source on paper can still share a mill, a berth, or a single customs broker. We draw the shared joints.
Inventory as a policy, not a pile
Safety stock is a decision with a service curve. We make the curve visible to finance and to the floor.
Disruption as a timetable
Resilience is not a slogan. It is a sequenced set of moves with owners, lead times, and a kill-switch for wishful recovery dates.
From the journal
All essays
When buffer stock is a liability
How a “just in case” layer in Toowoomba quietly funded a supplier’s late mill.
Reading lead-time variance on agri-export lanes
Average days-to-berth hides the week that actually breaks a packing shed.