About us

ideachain was founded by John Davies in 2013.  Over the last 25 years John has worked in a large multi-national organisation environment as well as with smaller/medium sized family owned businesses.

With each business with which John has worked he has driven best practice for his customers.

This best practice has been in a variety of areas including operational leadership, business growth strategies, business planning, new business delivery, superior account management, value propositioning, effective marketing and robust commercial management.

John’s philosophy and practical experience in the supply chain arena is about putting the customer needs first, ensuring solutions are aligned to the customers strategic business needs as well as their specific supply chain strategy.

John has outstanding managerial and leadership development capabilities with the determination to always deliver high levels of business growth alongside operational and service excellence.

With good strategic appreciation and vision, he is able to build and implement sophisticated plans with a proven track record explicitly supporting business needs.

John is driven and self reliant, sets objectives and targets and leads by example, his collaborative approach and good interpersonal skills will engage, motivate and encourage others through change.

Areas of Expertise:

  • New Business Development
  • Business strategy creation and delivery
  • Supply Chain Design and Transformation
  • Consultative selling
  • Sales and marketing leadership
  • Business Plan Development
  • Superior Account Management
  • Contract negotiation
  • Operational Delivery
  • Budget delivery
  • Project/Change Management
  • Risk Management
  • Driving Performance Improvement using Lean methodologies