Why are my manufacturing costs so high?

Why is our warehouse full of old inventory?

I don’t know our true product costs.

Should I just outsource my supply chain?

We have answers.

We Analyze Your Data and Bring Clarity to Your Supply Chain

Data Tells The Story: But It's Rarely Heard

Do you track the average error of your demand plan?
How is your product cost impacted by changes in conversion cost, material prices, and volume mix?
Do you review sales volume and profit for each SKU and compare against your inventory carrying costs?

Very few businesses digest critical data, leading to confusion and missed opportunities.

We Build Key Insights from Your Data

We solve operational problems simply by digesting existing financial data.
We transform messy detail into enterprise-level financial reporting.
We work collaboratively with your team.

We deliver transformative insights by combining gritty analytical work with decades of supply chain expertise.

Our Services

Find the Cash

Imagine if you employed finance experts solely focused on finding savings in your supply chain.
Every supply chain has costly inefficiencies, but most businesses lack the resources to find opportunities.
We quantify the costs hidden in your supply chain, and propose solutions.

A Life Sciences business was incurring mystery charges from their supply chain. Read what we did:

Inventory Planning

Bloated inventory will simply crush your business in both warehouse costs and inventory write-offs.
Even small improvements in demand planning can yield enormous ongoing savings.
We review your sales and operations cycle and propose help you build the right inventory at the right time.

The third largest ceiling fan manufacturer wasn’t reacting to shifts in market demand. Read our solution:

Supply Chain Reporting

Legacy supply chain reporting frequently reads like a general ledger – Tons of detail, but no conclusions.
We partner with you to align on the key drivers that support your business outcomes.
We build reporting that gives you critical insights to manage your supply chain costs.

Acquisition Diligence

Supply chain costing is frequently overlooked in acquisition due diligence.
As a result, business leaders don’t understand a target’s supply chain costs until after the deal close.
As part of your due diligence team, we ensure you understand the target cost structure before you commit to a purchase.

Manufacturing Finance:
A Critical Discipline That is Often Ignored

We've Seen it Before.

The manufacturing plant is the size of a small city. The site produces tons of product each day, employing the following staff:

Teams of operators and supervisors,
Ten site engineers,
Two dozen quality and safety workers,
and a single plant controller.

The controller is overwhelmed with the daily grind. Enormous amounts of financial data are generated every day, but it never sees the light of day.

We Breathe Life Into Your Reporting.

We come alongside your plant controller and share best practices for enterprise reporting.
We even build templates and simple processes to incorporate raw data into transformational reporting.

Data becomes visible, empowering you to execute savings opportunities.

About Us

Decades of Manufacturing Finance Expertise

We share a passion for transforming supply chains with proven financial analysis. We have unique expertise driving clarity through the following activities:

Highlighting savings potential through enterprise-class reporting
Identifying hidden costs
Acquisition due diligence
Reducing write-offs by transforming inventory planning
Identifying unprofitable SKUs
Leading footprint analysis initiatives

Manufacturing finance is an under-valued discipline. Very few business school graduates aspire to truly understand cost accounting. We don’t care; it’s what we love.

Our Process

Our process follows our core principle:

Proper Financial Analysis Enables Supply Chain Transformation

We perform fundamental financial analysis of underlying data to identify key cost drivers and inefficiencies in your supply chain.
We don’t take shortcuts with pre-built software packages.
We digest critical details and build custom reporting views tailored to your business.

We do the analytical work that others simply refuse to do.

1. We Listen
2. We Collect Facts
3. We Analyze
4. We Collaborate
5. We Share Findings
6. We Support

Our Case Studies

We delivered transformative insights to these clients.

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We Analyze Your Data and Bring Clarity to Your Supply Chain