Cut inventory
without cutting service
You are carrying $3–8M more inventory than you need. You know it. But every time someone suggests reducing stock, operations pushes back: we'll miss shipments. We show you exactly where to cut — and prove service levels improve, not decline.
The costs you cannot see
Six symptoms we find in almost every manufacturer we walk into.
Your OTIF is 87% and nobody can explain why
You have safety stock everywhere. You still miss deliveries. The problem is not inventory levels — it is inventory placement. Wrong SKUs, wrong locations, wrong reorder points.
Your demand forecast is a spreadsheet that three people trust
Sales says one thing. Operations plans another. Finance budgets a third number. Every month is a fire drill. You don’t need a better forecast — you need a single demand signal everyone works from.
You keep asking for better data and keep getting excuses
You have an ERP. You have BI dashboards. You still cannot answer “what is our true cost to serve Customer X?” in under an hour. The data exists. The structure does not.
Excess inventory ties up $2–10M in working capital
That cash sits on shelves instead of funding growth, paying down debt, or returning to shareholders. At a 6x EBITDA multiple, every $1M in freed working capital is $6M of enterprise value.
OTIF below 90% costs 3–5x more in expediting than prevention
Every missed delivery triggers a rush shipment, a premium freight charge, a customer escalation, and a rep promising it will never happen again. Firefighting dwarfs the cost of getting it right.
Your S&OP process exists on paper but doesn’t drive decisions
Monthly meetings happen. Decks get shared. But purchasing still orders on gut feel, production still runs hot lists, and finance still gets surprised. The process exists. The discipline does not.
$2–10M of working capital sits in excess inventory at the typical mid-market manufacturer
Working capital tied up in excess inventory at typical mid-market manufacturers
Inventory reduction achievable without cutting service levels
Average OTIF rate at manufacturers we assess, against a 95%+ target
Cost of expediting versus prevention for missed deliveries
How we optimize your supply chain
The Supply Chain Excellence practice scores five diagnostic dimensions and draws on 15+ analytical frameworks to find exactly where margin is leaking.
Demand
Demand planning
Forecast accuracy, demand sensing, and SIOP maturity against a single signal.
Procurement
Strategic sourcing
Supplier management, total cost of ownership, and spend analytics.
Inventory
Inventory optimization
ABC-XYZ classification, safety stock optimization, working capital release.
Logistics
Fulfillment & distribution
Network design, transportation optimization, delivery efficiency.
Visibility
Metrics & control
Supply chain KPIs, control towers, and dashboards people actually open.
Part of Margin Architecture™ — 46 integrated frameworks across sales, pricing, and supply chain. See the full methodology →
From diagnosis to results
Strategy
Where your supply chain stands
- Free Margin Scan, supply-chain pillar
- Peer benchmark against more than 1,000 scored companies
- Inventory and OTIF gaps named
- No data upload required
Discovery
Where the cash and the service are hiding
- Inventory health assessment
- Demand signal audit
- SIOP maturity evaluation
- Working capital opportunity map
Projects
Fix placement before you fix volume
- ABC-XYZ rationalization
- Safety stock recalculation
- S&OP process build
- Supplier consolidation
Results
A rhythm that survives us leaving
- Power BI supply chain dashboards
- Monthly S&OP cadence
- Quarterly business reviews
- Self-sustaining capability
Already delivered, before the platform
Excess stock released through weekly S&OP
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Start where it hurts
Free, self-serve. Tell us where it hurts in fifteen minutes; then the Scan benchmarks your supply chain against more than 1,000 scored companies and shows where you stand.
Supply chain does not exist in isolation
Margin leakage rarely lives in one silo.
Pricing Excellence
Stop leaving money on every invoice. 200–400 bps of leakage from unmanaged discounts alone.
Sales Excellence
Close the gap between quoted price and pocket price. Measurable lift in 60 days.
The full methodology
Margin Architecture™ — 46 integrated frameworks across sales, pricing, and supply chain.
Ready to free your working capital?
Scope is set per engagement. Tell us your revenue band and where service is hurting, and we will come back with a shape and a number.