LSI works with New Zealand’s primary industries to improve production, supply, and workforce operations across complex environments. We help organisations lift efficiency, strengthen planning, and build resilient operations that support growth and long-term sustainability.
By combining analytical insight with practical delivery, we collaborate with leaders and teams to improve performance across farming, forestry, aquaculture, processing, and wider primary sector operations. Every engagement focuses on measurable improvement, stronger capability, and lasting value across the supply chain.
Understanding The Challenge
Primary industries face pressure from multiple directions. Rising demand, environmental expectations, regulatory change, and volatile global markets all shape how organisations must plan, produce, and distribute goods. Many providers also manage dispersed operations, seasonal labour demands and variable production conditions, making operational reliability critical.
Across many organisations, manual processes, limited visibility across supply stages and inconsistent planning cycles can disrupt production flow or create avoidable cost. Workforce shortages and high turnover can add pressure, particularly where operations depend on specialist skills or coordinated activity across multiple sites.
LSI partners with primary industry organisations to improve the reliability and effectiveness of their operations. We help simplify processes, strengthen planning, build better reporting, and create clarity across roles, responsibilities, and day-to-day decision-making. Our work supports organisations to manage risk, improve performance and operate with greater confidence in unpredictable environments.
Common Challenges We Help Solve
Across primary industries, we often help clients address challenges such as:
- Operational inefficiencies that affect productivity, quality, or yield.
- Limited coordination across production, logistics or processing functions.
- Workforce pressure created by unclear roles, variable planning, or manual workload..
- Gaps in reporting that restrict visibility of performance or emerging issues.
- Disconnected systems and processes across multiple sites or stages of the supply chain.
How We Work In This Sector
Our work follows LSI’s Diagnose → Design → Deliver approach, ensuring every recommendation leads to practical improvement.
Each engagement is shaped by collaboration, clarity, and a strong focus on operational performance.
1.
Diagnose
We analyse production, supply, logistics and support processes to identify constraints and improvement opportunities. Reviews combine data insight, workflow observation, and engagement with frontline teams to understand the drivers of quality, efficiency, and operational risk.
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Design
Design
We co-design solutions with leaders and operational teams, aligning roles, processes, and planning cycles to support reliable, efficient operations. Insights are translated into practical models that improve coordination, reporting and decision-making from site level through to senior leadership.
3.
Deliver
We stay involved through implementation, supporting teams to embed new ways of working and build capability to sustain improvement. Our work helps organisations achieve stronger yield, more predictable supply, and clearer ownership across the value chain.
Where We Create Value
Our work spans key opportunity areas for primary sector organisations:
- Improving production flow and reducing operational bottlenecks.
- Building reliable planning and forecasting cycles.
- Strengthening quality and yield through clearer processes.
- Improving coordination across production, logistics and processing.
- Developing operational practices that support compliance and sustainability.
These areas help organisations balance performance, risk, and long-term value in environments where unpredictability is common.
Our Impact In Action
Our work in primary industries has delivered measurable improvement in yield, planning, quality, and operational reliability.
Improving Yield and Quality Across a National Producer
Improving Yield and Quality Across a National Producer
LSI supported a primary sector organisation to improve yield and quality by reviewing production processes, identifying bottlenecks, and strengthening decision-making across teams. The work helped reduce waste and improve consistency of output.
Strengthening Supply Chain Coordination
Developing an Operational Model for Future Growth
LSI worked with a large primary industry provider to review its future operating model. The work supported leadership to improve structure, clarify responsibilities, and prepare the organisation for growth and changing market conditions.