4C Associates
Allison Ford-Langstaff, FCIPS, is a highly accomplished professional with extensive experience in procurement, supply chain, and operations management. Currently serving as Managing Partner at 4C Associates since August 2019, Allison leads a team specializing in sustainable business transformations across various sectors. Concurrently, as Managing Director of Rightsource Solutions Ltd since September 2010, Allison focuses on supply solutions for the SME market. In addition to these roles, Allison contributes to academia as a Visiting Lecturer at WMG, University of Warwick, and has held significant positions including Transformation Director at Future Purchasing, JV Integration Programme Lead at EE, and sourcing-related leadership roles at Orange and Wanadoo. Allison's earlier career includes consultancy work and management roles at British Steel. Academic qualifications encompass a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, an MBA in Strategy & Procurement Management from the University of Birmingham, and joint honors degrees in French and Swedish from the University of Wales, Lampeter, and the University of Göteborg, Sweden.
4C Associates
4C Associates is an award-winning procurement consultancy specializing in helping clients achieve rapid profit improvement and cost leadership from our head offices in London and Brussels. We have over 15 years of experience working across multiple industries and geographies with clients ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to Global 500corporations.We deliver a range of services that provide our clients with truly actionable insights and tangible cost savings through a combination of consultancy services, outsource operations and cost reduction programs.Our multi-country teams have deep category specialisms and are trained to deliver best in class procurement solutions through our proprietary market-leading technology and best in class processes.At the heart of everything we do is an agile and innovative approach that is designed to deliver and transform our clients' procurement operations.