Supplying Factory Consumables Worldwide Since 1960

Industrial Consumable Supply - Intelligent Inventory Solutions - System Integrations

Solutions Built Around You

A Practical, Tailored Approach to Inventory, Supply and Site Support

No two customer sites are the same. That is why FP Group builds solutions around your products, your processes, your people and your priorities. We combine industrial supply experience with digital systems, reporting, integration capability and hands-on service to create solutions that genuinely work in the real world.

01 / Lineside Inventory

Lineside VMI Cabinets

Our lineside VMI cabinet solutions help keep critical consumables at the point of use. Typically holding a 4 to 6 week stock position onsite with a duplicate stock position at our stores, stockouts are kept to an absolute minimum. With min / max levels regularly reviewed, we ensure we keep your stock aligned with your fluctuating usage patterns. Counts are performed on our custom FP Group WMS Apple iOS mobile application, instantly updating the stock position via the cloud with replenishments on pick in our warehouse within minutes. What 3 Words location tracking ensures our teams know where every cabinet is to within 3 metres.

  • 4 to 6 week stock profile
  • Duplicate stock position at FP
  • Counted on our FP Group WMS Apple iOS app
  • Consignment stock - fast moving production parts
  • Managed stock - slow moving production critical parts
Lineside VMI racking
Lineside VMI three cabinets
Lineside VMI cabinet close up
Lineside VMI cabinets
FP Group WMS Apple iOS mobile app
Type C carousel vending machine
Type C carousel vending machine
Type C carousel vending machine
Type C cabinet
Type C locker
Type C locker
Type C locker
Type C locker
Type C locker
Type C locker
Type S spiral vending machine
Type S spiral vending machine
Type S locker clear face
Type S locker solid face
02 / Intelligent Control

Lineside Vending Solutions

Lineside vending solutions bring controlled access, accountability and live stock visibility directly to the production environment. From PPE and tools to engineering consumables, vending with FP helps customers reduce overuse, improve traceability and maintain availability where it matters most.

  • 4 to 6 week stock profile
  • Duplicate stock position at FP
  • Controlled issue of critical products at the point of use
  • Improved accountability and consumption reporting
  • Customers average a 30% cost down with reduced consumption
  • Consignment stock - fast moving production parts
  • Managed stock - slow moving production critical parts
03 / Stores Optimisation

Central Stores Management

We support customers in improving the way their central stores operate, with permanent site and store envoys through to intelligent, cloud based inventory management software we ensure better availability, less waste, stronger control and a stores function that actively supports the wider business.

  • Central stores management
  • Using yours or our own cloud based inventory management software
  • Permanent site and stores envoys to support daily operations
  • Data driven supply keeps stock lean and efficient
  • 4 to 6 week stock profile
  • Duplicate stock position at FP
  • Consignment stock - fast moving production parts
  • Managed stock - slow moving production critical parts
Central stores management
FP spill management station
FP spill management station
FP spill management station
FP spill management station
Replenished spill station
04 / Spill Control

Lineside Spill Control VMI

Our spill management VMI solutions ensure the right spill control products are available, visible and maintained across your site. We help customers create safer environments, stronger compliance and a more reliable approach to absorbents, stations and spill response readiness.

  • Managed spill station replenishment and maintenance
  • Safer, more visible spill response provisions
  • Practical support for environmental and operational standards
  • Counted on our FP Group WMS Apple iOS app
  • Consignment stock - fast moving production parts
  • Managed stock - slow moving production critical parts
05 / Customer Portal

Web Portal for Spot Order / Tail End

For non-contracted, ad hoc or tail-end demand, our web portal gives customers a straightforward way to raise enquiries, recieve quotations and raise spot purchase orders with ease. Each portal is uniquely tailed per customer with custom graphics and livery plus total control down across item and category visibility. Custom categories can be created that are entirely unique to you and your teams.

  • A portal as unique as your business
  • Up to four configurable approval levels
  • Digital enquiry route for non-listed requirements
  • Integrated into popular ERP such as SAP Ariba
  • Backed by real people and real supply expertise
  • Complements wider VMI solutions
Aerospace themed portal
Electronics themed portal
Van stock themed portal
Permanent site envoy support
06 / Embedded Support

Permanent Site Envoys

For larger contracts a permanent site envoy becomes an extension of your operation. Acting as a dedicated on-site presence, they help coordinate supply, monitor usage, support stores activity, maintain standards and keep communication moving between your teams and ours.

  • Dedicated on-site support embedded into your operation
  • Faster response and closer day-to-day coordination
  • Improved control, visibility and service continuity
  • A relationship-led model built around care and accountability
Why Customers Choose FP

Inventory Management Solutions You Can Trust

The strongest solutions come from combining practical industrial knowledge, modern technology and people who care. FP bring a data-led approach with solutions that are infinitely tailorable around your unique business

Tailored by design

You're unique and so are our solutions

We do not believe in forcing customers into rigid templates. We look at the products you use, the way your teams work, the pressures on your operation and the outcomes you want to achieve, then tailor our core product offering around you.

Tailored solutions Cabinets, vending, web portal, support models and managed inventory approaches designed around each site.
Digital integration specialists We understand the growing importance of data flow, visibility, automation and connected systems in modern industrial supply.
Digital capability

System integrations are part of the solution

Modern inventory solutions need more than stock in bins. We bring digital thinking into the process, helping customers connect supply with reporting, accountability and smarter system-led control. Our inhouse software development team are on hand to tailor our solutions around you.

People who care

Commercially minded, operationally focused, relationship driven

The technology matters, but so do the people behind it. Our team cares about making things work properly, supporting customers well and building long-term relationships based on responsiveness, accountability and trust.

Real support Experience, care and practical follow-through from a business that understands industrial environments.

Are you considering a new direction with your consumable and ad hoc supplies?

Contact us for an informal review and practical solutions built around your site, your people and your processes.

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