https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/Recent content in Red Lantern Dining on Alfie Amayo — Operations PortfolioHugoen-ushttps://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/framing-narrative/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/framing-narrative/<div class="inline-title"> <a href="https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/" class="parent-title">Red Lantern Dining</a> <span class="title-slash">/</span> <span class="child-title">Programme Overview</span> </div> <div class="signals-2x2"> <div class="signal-cell"> <div class="signal-label">Lead time</div> <div class="signal-value-sm">7 → 3 weeks</div> <div class="signal-sub">Phase 1 reduction</div> </div> <div class="signal-cell"> <div class="signal-label">Cost reduction</div> <div class="signal-value">29.80%</div> <div class="signal-sub">GLS raw material</div> </div> <div class="signal-cell"> <div class="signal-label">Orders placed</div> <div class="signal-value">18</div> <div class="signal-sub">GLS ×10 · LYS ×8</div> </div> <div class="signal-cell"> <div class="signal-label">Phase 1 duration</div> <div class="signal-value-sm">13 months</div> <div class="signal-sub">Mar 2024 – Apr 2025</div> </div> </div> <h2 id="the-programme">The Programme</h2> <p>Red Lantern Dining is a 14-site food and beverage franchise. No location had the space or equipment to produce drinks on site, so I built a centralised bottled RTD programme: drinks made externally to a fixed specification, bottled, and distributed to all locations from one warehouse. I owned the programme end to end, from recipe development and factory setup through to logistics, cost optimisation, and delivery.</p>https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/dashboard/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/dashboard/<div class="inline-title"> <a href="https://alfieamayo.com/red-lantern/" class="parent-title">Red Lantern Dining</a> <span class="title-slash">/</span> <span class="child-title">Supply Chain Dashboard</span> </div> <p>This dashboard reconstructs the Phase 1 operating history in a way the Excel tracker could not. OTIF is the primary delivery metric. COGs is shown order by order, with each inflection point tied to a specific decision. The data covers Apex Beverage, Crest Bottling, and seven suppliers. All figures are real or reconstructed from production records. Client and supplier names are fictionalised.</p> <a href="https://kk-dashboard-wine.vercel.app" class="dashboard-cta" target="_blank"> <div> <div class="cta-label">Live artefact</div> <div class="cta-title">Open the Supply Chain Dashboard</div> <div class="cta-meta">React · Vite · Recharts · Deployed on Vercel</div> </div> <span class="cta-arrow">↗</span> </a> <hr> <h2 id="query-panel">Query Panel</h2> <p>The dashboard includes a query panel built around five operational questions. These queries are designed to surface patterns that are not visible order by order: which interventions worked, where the programme remained fragile, and where reliability was chosen over margin.</p>