Clarify Your Supply Chain
If you’re wondering why your supply chain feels broken, why you have a communication issue between supply chain and operations, or if you simply need to build more supply chain value, our supply chain consulting is right for you.
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Ask yourself...
Do you know where your supply chain is weak? This is not about getting containers through the Panama or Suez canals, it’s about your processes.
Do you have written contracts with your critical suppliers? Or are you open to risk if your handshake deal falls through?
Do you have a clean receiving process? Or are you constantly losing things and you don’t know why?
Do you receive clear and understandable bid analyses from your purchasing team? Or do you struggle to translate colorful spreadsheets into the right price to quote customers?
Companies of All Sizes
Leadership Experience
Passwall Solutions supply chain consulting brings you valuable leadership experience in utility & manufacturing supply chains from 4-150 team members, with unique expertise in e-auctions.
Passwall Solutions can find the weak links in your supply chain. Supply chains are a whole process from contracting and sourcing, through demand planning, to order entry and delivery. Our supply chain consulting will assess the performance of the complete cycle. If any of those links are broken, that might be why your supply chain isn’t performing as it should.
Contact us if your supply chain seems to be broken. We will have a candid conversation about getting you back on track, solutions to fix what's broken, and the real possibiilty that e-auctions might be one of those solutions.
The Passwall Solutions Supply Chain 360 Review identifies both strengths and gaps in your supply chain, and has helped companies like Berkshire Hathaway Energy, MasTec and Wittern Group find 4-11% of their annual spend in savings and risk reduction opportunities.
Would you like to find that kind of savings too?
About Us
We help operations leaders reduce costs and time to bid in all spend categories, while building a supply chain that leverages your weight in the marketplace.
Recent Work:
Improved On-Time Delivery
Passwall Solutions helped the client increase their on-time delivery from 65% to 82%.
Our Services
Break Through the Supply Chain Wall with Our Range of Solutions
Supply Chain 360
Supply Chain 360
This two-week comprehensive review will clarify your supply chain, assess strengths and opportunities, and find value-added possibilities.
Quick Kaizen
Quick Kaizen
This one-day event will clean up and document a process while reducing steps 10-30%.
Consulting
Consulting
Contact me for supply chain consulting and expert guidance on how to reduce your supply chain spend.
e-Auctions
e-Auctions
Increase supplier transparency, reduce costs, and improve your supply chain maturity, with a new or improved e-Auction program.
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Insights...
Here's where you'll learn how to cut costs while improving efficiency.
From AI to Truck Drivers: Lessons from a Day at Iowa State’s Voorhees Supply Chain Conference
The article recaps my experience at the Iowa State Voorhees Supply Chain Conference, highlighting a consistent theme: despite rapid advances in AI and automation, the future of supply chain remains deeply human. Early sessions touched on Supply Chain 5.0’s focus on resilience, sustainability, and human‑centric design, as well as Casey’s gradual rollout of predictive inventory tools. The Startup Showcase emphasized meeting audiences where they are—whether through driver‑focused podcasts or advanced load‑matching algorithms. In the PechaKucha research lightning round, professors shared insights on repair economics, tariff strategy, unintended effects of gig‑worker insurance, and the regulatory burden on food supply chains. A standout moment came from Project 61’s compelling work on truck‑driver health, while the closing keynote reinforced that optimized systems still fail without adaptable, well‑developed people. “We simply can’t get so excited about AI that we build brittle supply chains that break the minute geopolitical pressures rise.”
The A Team vs. The B Team: The Case for Experience in Strategic Sourcing
This week’s article is about what experience brings in procurement. Let’s talk about building relationships, the things that go into Total Cost of Ownership, and winning the war instead of the battles. I also tell some stories about when I burned relationship bridges as a beginning Engineering Buyer, when I got to come in after a very inexperienced large consulting firm team, and when I thought I was winning, but I was only winning battles and losing the war.
To Procure Better, Classify Better: Category Taxonomy as a Strategic Supply Chain Tool
Today’s article talks about category taxonomies: why they’re important, options, pros, cons, and things to think about. While not the most exciting topic, it’s one of those Supply Chain 101 tools that, when broken, breaks everything else. They’re needed to:
-Allow for division of work
-Help accounting with taxes
-Determine bid cadence, timing, and scope
-Improve system interconnection
-Enables data analysis
We’ll cover:
UNSPSC
NAICS
Tax Codes/HTS
Home-built