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Your engagement found the planning gap. I close it without taking the client.
Three profiles · By capability gap
Independent supply chain advisory.
25 Yrs
Supply Chain Experience
1,000+
Executives Advised
12 Yrs
Gartner MQ Lead Author
4,000+
Practitioner Reach
Zero
Vendor Affiliations
Who This Is For
Find your situation below.
Each profile is designed for a different type of consultancy — defined not by firm name or size, but by where your practice is and what you need.
Engagements are available as referral partnerships, subcontract arrangements, on-call retainers, or project-based work. Most relationships begin with a focused scoping conversation.
Consultancies · Profile I
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You Have the SCP Depth. You Need Independence and a Broader View.
The challenge isn’t expertise in SCP operating models. It’s the breadth of the technology landscape and knowing where it’s headed.
Intended Reader
Boutique SCP specialists and implementation-focused practices with deep SCP bench strength.
The Situation
Your consultants know supply chain planning. They can assess maturity, design operating models, and guide transformations. Where the gap emerges is in technology evaluation and forward-looking capability. Clients — especially those with boards and investors asking how AI fits into their supply chain strategy — increasingly expect advisors who can navigate the intersection of AI, data science, and modern software architecture with genuine fluency. That requires a vantage point that goes beyond the engagements your team has worked on.
Services
5 engagements available within this profile.
01
Where SCP Technology Is Headed — AI & Digital Capability
The convergence of data science and modern software engineering is enabling supply chains to do things they could not do five years ago — autonomous replenishment, real-time scenario planning, ML-driven forecasting, simulation-based decision support. Clients want advisors who understand these capabilities in depth: what is real versus overhyped, where to apply them, and how to sequence adoption. I bring that forward-looking perspective into your engagements as a subcontractor or through thought leadership your practice can publish under its name.
02
Technology Evaluation — End to End or Course Correction
I run SCP technology evaluations as a subcontractor within your engagement — from defining requirements and building the vendor shortlist through RFP design, demo scripting, and selection support. When an evaluation is already in progress and has stalled, gotten misaligned, or lost client confidence, I step in to reset it. Vendor-neutral, grounded in twelve years of evaluating every major SCP vendor. Your firm owns the engagement.
03
Referral Partnership
When a client need falls outside your lane — a standalone SCP diagnostic, a technology evaluation, or advisory on a vendor decision you didn’t sell — refer them. I build a direct engagement with the client and pay you a percentage of the total contract value. You keep the relationship and earn a fee without taking on scope you’re not set up to serve.
04
Technology Market Intelligence
I take vendor briefings, monitor market developments, and maintain a current view of the full SCP vendor landscape — including how vendors are perceived by buyers, where implementations succeed and fail, and where PE and VC capital is flowing. Available as structured quarterly briefings or on-demand when a deal requires it.
05
On-Call Retainer
A standing arrangement where I’m available to your team on demand — joining a client call, reviewing an RFP response, or advising on a deal in progress. No scoping overhead. Gartner-caliber SCP expertise exactly when you need it.
Engagement Model
Subcontract arrangement, on-call retainer, or referral partnership — structured around your existing client relationships. The subcontract and retainer models activate with a brief scoping conversation. The referral model requires no overhead on your side.
Consultancies · Profile II
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II
You Have the Client Relationships. You Need the SCP Depth.
You win the engagement. SCP is where it gets complicated.
Intended Reader
Large strategy practices, broad digital transformation firms, and advisory arms with SCM practices that run lean on SCP specialists.
The Situation
Your firm wins large, complex engagements. When supply chain planning surfaces — a technology decision, a process redesign, a client that needs to stand up a formal planning function and doesn’t know how to structure it, staff it, or sequence the work — your team needs to respond with depth. The right resource isn’t always available, and even when someone is on the bench, domain fit matters. A consultant with deep experience in one industry or engagement type isn’t always the right match for a different client’s planning challenge.
Services
6 engagements available within this profile.
01
AI & Digital Capability Advisory
The intersection of AI, machine learning, simulation, and modern software architecture is creating capabilities most clients — and many advisors — don’t yet fully understand. I help your team and clients distinguish what is real from what is overhyped, identify where these technologies apply, and build a sequenced adoption roadmap. This is the forward-looking fluency your clients increasingly expect.
02
On-Call SCP Expertise
When an SCP question surfaces and the right resource isn’t available, I step in as a subcontractor or named advisor. No onboarding lag. Available to join a client call, review a vendor evaluation, advise on a technology decision, or help a client think through how to structure and staff a planning function.
03
Independent Technology Evaluation Support
Twelve years of vendor-neutral SCP evaluation experience applied to your client’s technology selection. Every major vendor, evaluated honestly — not through the lens of a single implementation, but across hundreds. Your client gets an objective recommendation. Your firm owns the process without the bias perception.
04
Industry-Spanning Perspective
Thousands of advisory interactions across industries, company sizes, and geographies give me a view no single consulting career can build — where supply chain practices transfer across industry lines, where clients are solving problems other industries solved years ago, and where the real transformation risk lives.
05
Technology Market Intelligence
Quarterly or on-demand intelligence on the SCP vendor landscape — vendor movements, M&A activity, PE and VC investment patterns, and shifts in buyer evaluation. Gives your partners and practice leads the market fluency to advise credibly on technology strategy without a full-time SCP research function.
06
Thought Leadership Development
Original content that builds your practice’s credibility in supply chain planning — white papers, executive bylines, POV pieces, and conference abstracts. Written from genuine market expertise. Available under your firm’s name or co-developed for independent publication.
Engagement Model
On-call retainer or subcontract arrangement, structured to activate quickly when a client need surfaces. Retainers are scoped around availability and cadence. Subcontract engagements begin with a brief scoping conversation. Referral arrangements are also available for engagements that fall fully outside your practice’s current scope.
Consultancies · Profile III
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III
Your Engagement Surfaced the Problem. The Fix Is Outside Your Lane.
You’re not handing them off to a stranger — you’re connecting them to a specialist you vouch for.
Intended Reader
Boutique specialists in logistics strategy, procurement, warehousing, distributed order management, manufacturing operations, or any adjacent supply chain domain where planning gaps surface routinely.
The Situation
Your practice has deep expertise in one domain of supply chain — logistics strategy, procurement, warehousing, distributed order management, manufacturing operations, or a related area. The work you do has a pattern: it reveals planning problems your engagement wasn’t scoped to address. A warehousing engagement uncovers a demand forecasting issue. A logistics engagement reveals an inventory planning problem. A procurement project exposes a supply planning weakness.
Services
4 engagements available within this profile.
01
Referral Partnership
When your engagement surfaces a planning problem your practice isn’t built to address, refer your client. I build a direct engagement — a diagnostic, a forecasting improvement project, or a technology evaluation — and pay you a percentage of the total contract value. You stay in the broader client relationship and earn a fee for solving the whole problem, not just the piece you came for.
02
Subcontract Advisory
For adjacent specialists who want to stay involved in the planning workstream, I’m available as a subcontractor — providing SCP planning expertise within your engagement, under your firm’s delivery structure. Your client gets the depth they need. Your firm maintains the full client relationship.
03
SCP Technology Evaluation
When your client’s planning problems point toward a technology gap, I provide independent vendor evaluation and selection support. Grounded in twelve years of evaluating every major SCP vendor from a vendor-neutral position. No implementation agenda, no preferred vendor.
04
AI & Digital Technology in Supply Chain Planning
When your client asks how AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics apply to their planning challenges — and your team isn’t sure how to answer — I can. ML-driven forecasting, autonomous replenishment, simulation-based scenario planning. I help clients understand what is real versus overhyped and how to sequence adoption without overcommitting before the operational foundation is ready.
Engagement Model
Referral partnership is the natural fit for most adjacent specialist relationships — no contracting overhead, no scope conflict, and a straightforward revenue share when a client need falls outside your lane. The trust and discovery work are already in place; your client isn’t starting over with a stranger. Subcontract arrangements are also available for firms that want to keep the planning workstream within their engagement structure.
In their words
“Only someone that has operated at a high enough level — and has seen enough organizations and enough operations — can come in and do that.”
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