Start with an Assessment. Fix the right problems first. In two days on site we find the few issues driving most of your operational cost and delay, then hand you a prioritized roadmap with the return on every project.
Every operation has a list of problems. Productivity is off, inventory is too high, orders ship late, the warehouse is out of space, throughput has plateaued. Most leaders can name the symptoms. Far fewer know which one is actually costing them the most, or what is causing it.
That is what the Assessment answers, and it is why more than 90% of Supply Velocity engagements start here. We do not start by selling projects. Unlike firms that run a discovery meeting and then propose a predetermined solution, we learn your business and your people first. Only then do we recommend improvement projects, each with its scope, objectives, tools, timing, fee, and the return on investment where the data supports it.
You decide what to run, in what order, and whether to run it with us or on your own.
Two days on site. A written report and a prioritized roadmap, typically two to three weeks later.
Three for multi-channel or multi-site operations. We interview the people closest to the process, walk the facility, and review your operating data.
We focus on the small number of issues responsible for most of your challenges, rather than weeks of data collection.
A written Assessment Report and an executive presentation with Q&A, typically two to three weeks after the visit.
To keep the Assessment to two days, we ask for a short data package before we arrive. Most clients already have all of it.
A findings read-out on the last day on site, then the written Assessment Report and an executive presentation.
Most Assessments cover more than one area. Tell us the problem and we will scope it.
Manufacturing and operations. Labor productivity, on-time delivery, quality, material cost and overhead.
Warehouses and plants. Layout, flow, storage media, WMS readiness, moves and expansions.
End-to-end supply chain against the SCOR model: plan, source, make, deliver.
Service businesses and office processes. Information flow, ERP and process re-engineering.
Scorecards, metrics and incentives that align the floor with leadership.
Most Assessments span more than one area. Describe the problem and we will scope the right one for your operation.
Talk to usThe Assessment tends to confirm leadership's concerns. Its value is in the hidden causes underneath them.
Ahead of a warehouse move and WMS upgrade, a Lean Warehouse Assessment found shipping placed at the far dock doors, a reactive replenishment process, and metrics that did not tie to the financials. Delivered a swapped dock design, a performance scorecard and a 90-day roadmap.
The CEO estimated operations and supply chain problems were costing $3 to $4 million a year in lost profit. A Lean Assessment value-stream analysis across plan, source, make, store and deliver set the roadmap. Since then: first-pass yield from 81.3% to 94.3%, on-time delivery from 67% to 97%, finished-goods inventory turns from 9.7 to 13.5, and shipping errors from two a month to zero.
Inconsistent onboarding and operating processes were eroding profitability as the business grew. The Lean Assessment recommended a cross-functional Kaizen. Outcome: more than 60 non-value-added steps found, 45 improvement projects identified worth $15M+ in annualized savings, seven implemented within weeks, and $5.5M more in progress.
What stood out the most was their ability to balance objective analysis with practical recommendations. The output was not just diagnostic. It included concrete next steps such as a 90-day roadmap, prioritization of leadership and training gaps, and specific guidance around WMS adoption, SOP development and operating cadence.
I strongly endorse Supply Velocity for their outstanding work in orchestrating Kaizen continuous improvement events. Their facilitation promoted collaborative efforts across our different teams and ensured we captured all of the challenges and unique intricacies to our current processes. Leveraging Supply Velocity's expertise and education, we successfully pinpointed and prioritized significant opportunities during a brief 3-day Kaizen event.
Driving operational excellence and delivering results across diverse industries since 1998.
Trusted partnerships that extend across multiple projects reflect the long-term value and results we deliver.
Two days on site for most operations, three for multi-channel or multi-site, with the written report and executive presentation typically two to three weeks later.
Usually the symptoms, yes. The Assessment identifies the root causes and the sequence to address them, which is where improvement efforts most often fail.
No predetermined solution walks in the door. Every recommended project comes with scope, fee and expected return so you can decide, and you can implement any of them without us.
Assessments run in distribution and warehousing, retail, food and beverage, healthcare supply chains and business services, not only manufacturing.
Interviews and a facility tour across two days, scheduled around the operation, plus the data package before we arrive.
You choose. You keep the report, the roadmap and the quick wins either way.
Weeks-long, team-heavy studies are a different product. We apply the 80/20 principle with senior consultants who then run the projects themselves.
Speak to a Lean Supply Chain Transformation Expert. We will review your situation on a short call and scope the Assessment for your operation and facilities.
No obligation. We respond within 48 hours. Your information stays private.
Client Voice
"If you are looking for someone to help drive improvements, create repeatable processes and mentor younger staff in your facility then reach out to Supply Velocity. Your expertise and dedication have driven significant im..."
Tim Donohoe
COO, Chemline
"I am thrilled to provide this testimonial for Supply Velocity and their outstanding work in implementing Lean Warehouses and processes at Crescent Parts & Equipment through the COVID pandemic. With their data-first focus..."
Josh Cole
Director of Supply Chain, Crescent Parts & Equipment
"For several years we have worked with Supply Velocity to support us with their expertise on Lean Operations and Supply Chain Management. Supply Velocity has helped us implement Lean, improve our inventory systems, and ed..."
Lorenza Pasetti
CEO, Volpi Foods
"Supply Velocity is driving instrumental change in our inventory management processes. This is critical for us to be competitive in a supply chain environment with numerous disruptions. They are making change happen, whic..."
Jim Carroll
Executive Vice President Operations, Schaeffer Manufacturing
"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, faci..."
Jane Thrasher
Vice President of Supply Chain, Horizon Hobby
"Mitch Millstein and his team helped guide our shop fabrication division in the re-layout of our custom pipe and steel fabrication facility when we moved into a new building. It is not only the results but how he helped...."
Geoff Gross
President, Gross Mechanical
"In 2015 we began working with Dr. Mitch Millstein to optimize our inventory locations supporting e-commerce and in-store inventory needs. From this work we developed a new omni-channel warehousing and inventory plan that..."
Rob Bowers
Vice President of Strategy, Total Hockey
"Myerson engaged Supply Velocity, specifically Ray Davis to visit our plant in Trinidad to conduct a two day assessment of our production procedures and provide us feedback on areas for improvement and where applicable, a..."
Lee Hartwell CPA
Plant Manager, Myerson Tooth
"Supply Velocity has provided the technical expertise and political capital to move our project forward. They have just the right amount of push and the right amount of support. Supply Velocity has helped us make real cha..."
David Walters
President, Hy-C
"Our experience with Supply Velocity was one of the best values we have ever had from a consulting project. Cyril Narishkin brought a structured lean methodology, invaluable experience and engaging facilitation skills to..."
Mike Howard
CEO, Aspeq
"Supply Velocity has helped Clean succeed in a number of ways. First, they provided the education that kicked off our Lean Process Improvement journey. They also facilitated a number of large supply chain and process impr..."
Jeff Lazaroff
Senior Vice President, Clean Uniform
"We engaged with Supply Velocity to help us embed process improvement at all levels of the business. Our team learned from Mitch to let the data drive decisions, to use Lean tools to help us see our processes critically a..."
Dionne Dumitru
COO, Weekends Only
"Supply Velocity gave us the tools to analyze our business and processes based on the facts and numbers versus our perceptions. Our common quote was "Let the numbers lead us". The key for our organization was how quickly..."
Ned Lane
President, CeeKay Supply
"We used Supply Velocity to rethink our sales process. By analyzing the entire process we found wasted time in our Sales, Admin and Operations departments. Streamlining this process created extra time for each Sales Rep,..."
Jeff Reitz
Vice President, Central States Bus
"Supply Velocity created visibility within our Assurance Services Group... visibility of performance, Client-service, employee satisfaction and processing time. Using the Supply Velocity System, Audit Report Cycle time is..."
Fred Kostecki
Partner-In-Charge, Assurance Services, Rubin Brown
"Supply Velocity's Lean Six Sigma System has given us new tools to help improve our sales performance. We have learned new ways to analyze our business which makes problem solving more accurate and has made us better lead..."
Rachel Andreasson
Executive Vice President - Marketing, Wallis Companies
"The role of the Erie Insurance Marketing Department has been evolving over the past several years - from a support role to a more critical role of driving growth in our organization. Because of our increased workload and..."
Karen Rugare
Director of Marketing, Erie Insurance
"Isolating a problem, finding short, and long term solutions with measurable results is what was promised and results is what was delivered by Supply Velocity. Upon launch of the Lean Six Sigma Selling System, we knew mor..."
Mark A. Presker
General Manager, Architectural Millwork of St. Louis
"In the spring of 2003, the St. Louis Area Chapter of the American Red Cross engaged Supply Velocity, Inc. to perform a study and make recommendations to streamline office processes, maximize cash flow in purchasing and w..."
Joe White
CEO, American Red Cross - Saint Louis Chapter
"We are using Supply Velocity's Lean Six Sigma methods to analyze a variety of processes including rationalizing SKUs (stock-keeping-units). By using math to evaluate SKUs we took some of the emotion out of our decisions...."
Mark Kelso
Director of Process Improvement, Save-A-Lot
"Anheuser-Busch Precision Printing had been implementing Lean Operations on our own for the past two years. We needed to move faster and partnered with Supply Velocity, Inc. Through Supply Velocity, Inc.'s mathematical wo..."
Rich Lavosky
General Manager, Anheuser-Busch Precision Printing
"C&R was struggling with labor productivity. The construction crews were often missing materials that they needed to do their work. This caused significant idle time. Supply Velocity, Inc. and C&R used value stream mappin..."
Tom Kuthe
V.P. Construction Operations, C&R Mechanical
"Your process encourages this group to work together, better communicate and have fun doing it."
George Edinger
President, C&R Mechanical
"Closure Medical recently completed a major reorganization in order to enhance our ability to rapidly create innovative medical devices. We hired Supply Velocity to help us map out the process and service flows of the new..."
Gabe Szabo
Vice President, Product Development, Closure Medical - A Division of Johnson & Johnson
"We are pleased that Essex selected Supply Velocity, Inc. as our Lean Implementation Partner. At one facility, we have saved over $350,000 in work-in-process inventory, reduced throughput time from 2 weeks to minutes and..."
Terry Etter
Vice President of Operations, Essex Medical Systems
"In thirty years of hiring consultants, Supply Velocity, Inc. was the first to tell me what they were going to do, set a price they stuck to and substantially exceed my expectations. I have recommended them to friends and..."
Bill Gilbert
President, Fusion Coatings
"Many thanks to all three Supply Velocity presenters. I think you guys took a very difficult time for learning and capitalized on everyone's time and training needs. I truly hope this helps your business as this was a con..."
Mark Holdinghausen
VP of Operations, DEMA Engineering
"We used Supply Velocity on our Warehouse optimization project. One of the key characteristics of Supply Velocity is that they listened to our requirements and provided a clear path for our Warehouse processes using lean..."
Haris Tokalic
President, Grand Rock, Inc.
"I’d recommend Supply Velocity to organizations looking for a hands‑on, data‑driven warehouse assessment with actionable outputs - particularly those dealing with operational change, new systems, or scaling challenges."
Jayson Wickenkamp
Senior Vice President, Image Solutions
