Manufacturing & Logistics
Engagement
Results
3h 40m
Longest outage
Against a four-hour ceiling
1,400
Assets certified
Serial-level destruction records
£186k
Value recovered
Returned from remarketing
99.2%
Diverted from landfill
WEEE-compliant processing
The challenge
The client was exiting two ageing owned facilities into colocation, on a lease deadline that could not move. Dependency documentation was six years stale, and the warehouse management system driving every dispatch could not be offline for more than four hours at any point.
The approach
Rebuilt the dependency map from live network telemetry rather than the outdated documentation, over an eight-week discovery period.
Sequenced workloads into move groups so the warehouse management system and its dependencies moved together in a single four-hour window.
Pre-built and pre-cabled the target racks in colocation, so the move weekend was a physical relocation rather than a build.
Rehearsed the cutover twice against a rollback plan with explicit abort criteria and a decision owner named in advance.
Decommissioned, sanitised and certified 1,400 retired assets under chain of custody, returning £186k in residual value.
Their P1 response has never once been late in three years, and when they missed a P3 target last spring the credit appeared on the invoice before we noticed. That is what accountability looks like.
Services used
Infrastructure
Rack and stack, migrations, decommissioning and resident data centre engineering across colocation and on-premises facilities.
Operations
Asset tracking through life and certified, auditable disposal at end of life — GDPR, WEEE and NIST 800-88 compliant.
More work
Replacing end-of-life point-of-sale and branch networking across 940 stores in fourteen months, without closing a single store for a day.
940
Sites completed
A workload-by-workload disposition assessment that stopped two of three planned migrations and cut projected three-year run cost by 31%.
31%
Three-year cost reduction
Client identity is withheld under the confidentiality terms of the engagement. Figures are as reported at programme close and can be substantiated under NDA on request.
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