Is your supply chain adding value?
How do you know?
Your supply chain shouldn’t just keep the business running. It should move the business forward.
Improve your supply chain value...
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Are your processes efficient? Are they good enough to implement AI without just “speeding up garbage”?
Are you getting the right value from your spend? Are you negotiating everything you can and should? Are you drowning in ambitious savings goals?
Where are your biggest risks? Do you have enough contracts and are they robust enough to survive today’s wildly volatile supply chain world?
What should you fix first? When everything is on fire, which opportunity has the most value? Which quick wins will quiet your stakeholders fastest?
If you know the answers to all of these questions, you can stop now. If not, this is where I can help.
Results Driven
Driving Results
Know what’s happening in your supply chain, what matters, and what you should do about it. ➡️
Maximize your spend leverage without hiring another full-time executive. ➡️
Prepare to implement AI agents that actually increase efficiency and accountability. ➡️
Create measurable change in your bottom line. ➡️
Trusted Advisor
Leadership Experience
Passwall Solutions is your trusted advisor, from someone who’s been there. I’m here to tell the truth about where you are, what’s working, what’s not, and what to fix first. Then I can help you fix it.
I’m not a software vendor. I’m not an e-auction platform. I’m not a giant consulting firm with a team of (smart but inexperienced) analysts. I’ve actually run this stuff.
I started as an engineer, so I still think like one.
I was the first VP of Supply Chain for a company that would be a Fortune 200 company if it stood alone (instead of the Fortune 10 position its parent company holds).
I led a large team across the US and ran thousands of e-auctions.
I wrote Transform Procurement: The Value of E-auctions which became a bestseller in three categories and won two literary awards.
Contact me to figure out what’s really happening and where to find your value.
Make the changes you need to move forward.
Our Services
Break Through the Supply Chain Wall
Supply Chain 360
Supply Chain 360
Get an objective view of what’s really happening and if your supply chain is as good (or bad!) as you think it is.
Quick Kaizen
Quick Kaizen
Fix the processes that are holding your team back. Get ready to implement AI in a way that doesn’t just speed up a bad process.
e-Auctions
e-Auctions
Capture more value from your supply base, without destroying supplier relationships. E-auctions are a chainsaw: use them right to harness their power safely.
Consulting
Consulting
Build the capability to sustain value. Make sure you have the right size team, in the right seats, with the right tools to keep maturing your supply chain.
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Insights...
Here's where you'll learn how to cut costs while improving efficiency.
AI is Ready. We are Not.
Today’s article talks about:
AI is exposing years of neglected data, process, technology, and talent debt, and most companies aren’t ready.
Why many organizations are implementing AI for FOMO instead of business value.
The eight hidden pitfalls causing AI pilots to fail and adoption efforts to stall.
A practical framework for measuring AI success beyond productivity and headcount reduction.
How procurement leaders can earn a seat at the table in enterprise AI strategy.
Sometimes at a conference, a talk just lands. It’s well-articulated, from a reputable source, and delivers the message in such a way that we can hear it.
Recoding Procurement: Kraft Heinz, AI Buying Lessons, and Apple’s China Story
Today’s article covers:
-The procurement foundations that must be in place before AI can deliver results.
-Five major warning signs that an AI solution isn’t ready for your organization.
-Why buying AI is usually smarter than building it yourself.
-Surprising lessons from Apple’s decades-long investment in China.
-One conference session so impactful it gets its own article next week.
Economic Reality, Smartphone Addiction, and Other Lessons from USMA
Today’s article covers:
-An economist explains why the media narrative about the economy may not match reality.
-What utility leaders should know about labor shortages, inflation, and infrastructure demand.
-A neuroscientist’s brutal breakdown of how smartphones destroy focus and productivity.
-Simple productivity changes that could save hours of wasted attention every week.