Our Clients

Lime Associates is the only UK consultancy that specialises in bringing best practice purchasing and supply chain solutions exclusively to medical and health technology companies. We get great results by working closely with clients’ teams to build long term relationships and provide sustainable benefits in terms of cost, value and customer service.

Some of the clients we have worked with include:

Success Stories

We are proud to have delivered significant and valuable projects at both a strategic and tactical, hands on level. Here are a few examples of our recent work. Please Contact Us to see how Lime Associates may be able to help you find solutions to your challenges.

  • Global Strategic Review

    Lime Associates helped a major European Medical manufacturer with a global strategic review

    For a major European medical manufacturer, the challenge was to help them take an holistic view of all purchasing spend and to identify and clarify their strategic direction and priorities, timings and potential benefits.
    Within just two weeks, we were able to offer our European client 10 clear strategic purchasing directives to follow along with ‘how to’ plans and implementation timescales.

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  • Direct Materials Cost Reduction

    Lime Associates helped a client to reduce direct materials cost

    The project was to source a polyamide material. Following a global review of 48 different companies in US, Europe and Asia using our own e auction (e RFX) software and subsequent audits, a low cost source in Korea has delivered a $600k pa saving for our client.

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  • Indirect Materials Cost Reduction

    Lime Associates helped a client to improve COGS

    Our brief was to introduce a new carton supplier to minimise supply risk and improve COGS (Cost of Goods Sold).
    In summary, a new supplier was identified offering a £750k cost reduction. We also significantly mitigated risk by maintaining the incumbent as a second source.

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  • Interim Management

    Lime Associates provides interim management support to Medical and Health Technology clients

    Working at a major multinational, Lime Associates have been able to deliver savings of over £1 million. The projects implemented have inlcuded 4 major,low cost and alternative sourcing projects. The Interim Management support provided by Lime Associates has enabled the client to free up internal resource whilst still delivering substantial additional value to the business.

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  • "Lime helped us to put in place a robust supply chain for a medical device with an ancillary medicinal substance"

    David Davies - Chief Development Officer, Futura Medical

  • "Lime helped us understand our strategic purchasing priorities and provided a different view of our purchasing data"

    Les Todd - Operations Director, Rocket Medical

  • "In a short space of time they've delivered significant long term profit improvement and created a new approach to how we source."

    Adam Sullivan - Chief Executive, Baywater Healthcare

  • "Many thanks for your support and assistance throughout the bidding process to date as it is very much appreciated."

    Drew Davidson - Corporate Bid Manager, Cooperative Travel Management

  • "Lime Associates provided top notch work & detailed documentation that allowed clear, concise decision making"

    Anthony James - Vice President Operations & Quality, Bioventus

  • "Lime Associates expertise has allowed us to make further improvements to our World Class global supply chain"

    Noel Waters - SVP Global Operations , Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management

  • "I would have no hesitation in recommending Lime Associates... They delivered six figure savings for us"

    Gavin Jones - Group Finance Director, Owen Mumford, UK

  • "I was very impressed with their professionalism. I'm happy to recommend Lime Associates in the future"

    Diana Molina - Country Domain Head - Scientific & Clinical, Genzyme, UK

  • "Lime Associates have demonstrated an in depth knowledge of medical grade logistics"

    Drummond McKenzie - Finance Director, Tissue Therapies, Australia

  • "Lime Associates expertise in SAP implementation was pivotal in the development of our manufacturing systems "

    Peter Kruger - Finance Director, Global Operations, Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management

  • "Lime Associates helped us source a tricky Medical component from China"

    Matthew Tully - Managing Director, Single Use Surgical, UK

  • "Lime Associates helped me achieve a 30% price reduction on our first day of engagement!"

    Paul Currah - Strategic Purchasing Manager, Owen Mumford, UK

  • "It was a pleasure working with such an experienced team"

    Andy Thelwell - Managing Director, Crux Healthcare, UK

  • "Lime Associates showed a thorough understanding of the contract healthcare market"

    David Bytheway - Head of Business Development, Flexible Medical, UK

  • "We have found the process with Lime Associates to be incredibly transparent and constructive"

    Lucy O'Neill - Managing Director, Star Medical, UK

  • "It’s been good to work with Lime Associates. It has been a pleasure, thanks for your help!"

    Nick Windle - Project Manager, Single Use Surgical, UK