Build a Resilient & Profitable Future
In an era of unprecedented disruption, a high-performing supply chain is your greatest competitive advantage. Supply Velocity is a specialized supply chain consulting firm that partners with organizations to transform their operations, eliminate waste, and drive sustainable growth. We don’t just deliver recommendations; we facilitate and implement lasting change.
The Impact: Real Results, Quantified
An effective supply chain strategy isn’t theoretical. It delivers measurable improvements to your bottom line. Our hands-on approach to supply chain management and operations consulting has empowered our clients to achieve remarkable, quantifiable results.
Up to 40% Increase in Gross Profit Margins
By analyzing and optimizing a client’s sales and operational processes, we created extra time for their sales reps, allowing them to focus on value-add activities and significantly boost profitability.
55% Increase in Warehouse Labor Productivity
Through Lean warehouse layout techniques, process flow mapping, and 5S training, we transformed an overwhelmed warehouse into a highly efficient operation, dramatically increasing throughput without adding headcount.
14,000 Hours of Non-Value-Added Work Eliminated
Our value stream mapping for a complex chemical supply chain identified and eliminated thousands of hours of wasted labor in their logistics functions, freeing up resources and accelerating customer response times from weeks to hours.
$450,000 in Obsolete Inventory Eliminated
By implementing a data-driven inventory rationalization process, we helped a client identify and remove non-performing SKUs, freeing up cash flow and valuable warehouse space.
Navigating the New Era of Supply Chain Management
Today’s supply chains are under constant pressure. Geopolitical instability, demand volatility, digital transformation, and rising customer expectations create a complex operating environment. Simply reacting to disruption is no longer enough. Building true resilience requires a proactive and strategic approach.
As a leading consulting firm in operations and supply chain strategy, we help you answer the critical questions:
- Is your supply chain strategy truly aligned with your overall business goals?
- Do you have clear visibility across your entire network, from suppliers to end customers?
- Are your supply chain operations agile enough to adapt to market shifts without sacrificing efficiency?
- Are you leveraging analytics and best practices to optimize inventory and service levels?
We partner with you to move beyond temporary fixes, implementing robust systems and processes that turn your supply chain into a powerful engine for growth and a durable competitive advantage.
Our Proven Approach: From Assessment to Lasting Advantage
We believe that sustainable change comes from collaboration and empowerment, not just consultation. Our unique 3-phase methodology ensures we understand your challenges deeply, facilitate the right solutions with your team, and implement changes that stick.
Phase 1: Assess
Our engagement begins with a comprehensive assessment. We dive deep into your data, processes, and systems, using diagnostic tools like Value Stream Mapping, Process Flow Mapping, and SIPOC analysis. We work alongside your personnel to understand the current state, identify bottlenecks, and quantify the opportunities for improvement in your procurement and supply chain functions.
Phase 2: Facilitate
This is where partnership truly comes to life. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with your teams in structured workshops and Kaizen events. We don’t dictate solutions; we teach your people Lean and Six Sigma principles, guide them in analyzing the findings, and empower them to design the future state. This collaborative process ensures buy-in and builds a culture of continuous improvement.
Phase 3: Implement
A plan is only as good as its execution. We provide the project management discipline and expert guidance to ensure the designed solutions are implemented effectively and deliver the forecasted results. We help you establish KPIs and performance scorecards to track progress, ensuring the new, optimized state becomes the new standard.
Our Supply Chain Consulting Services
We offer a focused suite of consulting services designed to address your most critical operational challenges. Each service is a gateway to greater efficiency, resilience, and profitability, tailored to deliver measurable results from the strategy room to the warehouse floor.
Supply Chain Strategic Planning
A world-class supply chain starts with a robust operations strategy that is directly aligned with your corporate objectives. We partner with your leadership team to develop a clear, actionable roadmap for your supply chain. By facilitating a structured Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, we ensure that your operational capabilities, financial goals, and market strategy are perfectly synchronized, creating a powerful foundation for sustainable growth and competitive advantage.
Supply Chain Optimization
Inefficiency erodes profit and hinders growth. Our supply chain optimization services are focused on driving operational excellence by systematically identifying and eliminating waste and deploying automation. Using proven Lean methodologies like Value Stream Mapping, we analyze your end-to-end processes to streamline workflows, reduce cycle times, and boost productivity. We turn insights into action, just as we did for a client where we eliminated over 14,000 hours of non-value-added work from their logistics functions.
Inventory Optimization
Inventory is one of your largest assets; managing it effectively is critical to cash flow and customer satisfaction. We help you move beyond reactive inventory management to a proactive, data-driven strategy. Our approach focuses on SKU rationalization, setting optimal stock levels, and implementing systems to reduce carrying costs while improving service. This process directly impacts the bottom line, as evidenced by our work with a client where we eliminated $450,000 in obsolete inventory.
Demand Forecasting
Accurate forecasting is the bedrock of efficient planning. We help you transition from basic spreadsheet models to more sophisticated, analytics-driven demand forecasting processes. By leveraging your data and applying proven algorithms, we improve forecast accuracy, providing you with the visibility needed to make better purchasing, production, and inventory decisions. The result is fewer stockouts, less obsolete stock, and a more agile response to market changes.
Facility Location & Network Optimization
The physical footprint of your supply chain has a massive impact on both cost and service. We conduct in-depth analysis to design the optimal network of facilities – including plants, warehouses, and distribution centers. Our facility location and network optimization services ensure your products flow through the most efficient path from source to customer, minimizing transportation costs and delivery lead times while building a more resilient and responsive network.
Supply Chain Assessment
Transformation begins with a clear understanding of your current state. Our Supply Chain Assessment is a comprehensive diagnostic that serves as the starting point for improvement. We perform a deep-dive analysis of your people, processes, and systems to identify key weaknesses, quantify the financial and operational opportunities, and deliver a prioritized, data-backed roadmap for change. It’s the first and most critical step on the journey to operational excellence.
Success Stories: From Theory to Transformation
The Client: Horizon Hobby, a global leader in hobby products.
The Challenge: Facing a volatile market and significant supply chain disruption, Horizon Hobby needed to move from a reactive to a proactive planning model to better manage demand and supply across their complex global network.
Our Solution: We partnered with their team in a facilitative role, helping them develop and implement a robust Demand and Supply Planning (S&OP) process. Our approach focused on teaching their team the new methodologies to ensure lasting internal capability and self-sufficiency.
The Impact: Horizon Hobby now has the strategic visibility and processes to proactively navigate disruptions, align the organization around a single plan, and make smarter, faster decisions, building a more resilient supply chain for the future.
The Client: Central States Bus Sales, a leading commercial and school bus dealer.
The Challenge: An internal analysis of their sales process revealed significant wasted time in administrative and operational tasks, preventing sales representatives from focusing on high-value customer interactions and strategic selling.
Our Solution: We conducted a thorough process analysis and applied Lean principles to streamline their entire sales and operations workflow. This optimization created significant additional capacity for each sales representative by eliminating non-value-added activities.
The Impact: By empowering their sales team to focus on customers instead of inefficient processes, the company dramatically increased its sales effectiveness and profitability, driving an increase in gross profit margins of up to 40%.
Meet Our Supply Chain Management Consulting Team
Our team is our greatest asset. We are not career consultants; we are seasoned practitioners with a unique combination of deep academic expertise and decades of in-the-trenches operational experience. Led by Ph.D.-level experts in supply chain management, our team brings unparalleled analytical rigor and practical, real-world solutions to every engagement.
Mitch Millstein
Managing Director
Ray Davis
Senior Partner
Stacy Sifleet
Partner
Zohar Strinka
Principal
“In a time of volatile supply chain disruption, Supply Velocity is helping us develop Demand and Supply Planning processes to proactively tackle these new challenges. They are genuine partners, working with our team, facilitating and teaching.”
— JANE THRASHER, VICE PRESIDENT OF SUPPLY CHAIN, HORIZON HOBBY