Clarify Your Supply Chain

If you’re wondering why your supply chain still feels broken, have a communication issue between supply chain and operations, or simply need to build more supply chain value, we can help.

Improve your supply chain value…

Ask yourself…

Do you know where your supply chain is strong or 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?

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Leadership Experience

With leadership experience in utility & manufacturing supply chains from 4-150 team members, 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, and assessing 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 about what doesn’t seem to be working in your supply chain and we can have a candid conversation about getting you back on track.

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.

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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%.

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Break Through the Supply Chain Wall with Our Range of Solutions

Supply Chain 360

This two-week comprehensive review will clarify your supply chain, assess strengths and opportunities, and find value-added possibilities.

Quick Kaizen

This one-day event will clean up and document a process while reducing steps 10-30%.

Consulting

Contact me for expert guidance on how to reduce your supply chain spend.

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Insights…

Here’s where you’ll learn how to cut costs while improving efficiency.

Build Value in Supply Chain by Thinking Like an Engineer

by Janice Marquardt | Jul 15, 2025 | Supply Chain Career

Like most supply chain/procurement professionals, I definitely didn’t start here. I was going to be an engineer, climbing the expected chain from Design Engineer to Project Engineer to Engineering Manager and then maybe VP of Engineering. It was going to be organized,...

Lump Sum vs. Unit Price: Procurement Lessons from 30,000 Feet

by Janice Marquardt | Jul 8, 2025 | Definitions, e-Auctions, Savings

On a call with a client today, they asked me how a “lump sum” bid is different from a “unit price” bid. This led to a larger discussion about risk vs. cost in a supply chain and this client team said to me, “You should write an article about this topic.” So here we...

Lessons Learned from Eight Small Midwest Manufacturing Supply Chains

by Janice Marquardt | Jul 1, 2025 | Processes, Savings

A few months ago, I had the immense privilege of working with the team at Iowa State University’s Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) to assess the supply chains at eight small Iowa-based manufacturers. The lessons we learned and their common threads...

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