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.
Improve your supply chain value…
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.
Don’t Start from Zero: When and How to Use Procurement Wrap Agreements
After a hard-fought battle, you finally have contract terms and conditions with a supplier. Awesome! But now you want to use that same supplier for a different material or different scope of work, and the idea of renegotiating that contract again is daunting. It’s…
Build Value in Supply Chain by Thinking Like an Engineer
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
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…