Supply chain consultant for small and mid-size businesses

This work is for manufacturers and growing businesses that buy components, materials or finished goods, especially across borders, and need a practical view of risk and options. It gives operations, procurement, planning, engineering, finance and leadership a shared way to compare choices.

• Companies with imported parts, complex bills of material or changing country-of-origin rules.
• Teams with single-source, long-lead or disruption-sensitive components.
• Teams assessing domestic, regional or nearshore supply options.
• Organizations starting or resetting a sales and operations planning process.

• Duty, freight and supplier assumptions live in separate spreadsheets.
• A price change arrives before anyone can explain its exposure by product.
• Supplier risk is discussed often but is not ranked consistently.
• Forecast, backlog, purchasing and production plans do not reconcile.
• Meetings produce updates but not decisions, owners or follow-through.

Each offering is a defined piece of work with named deliverables. Pick one, or combine them. Free call first, scope agreed before we start.

Three time-sensitive offers have their own pages, each with named deliverables and a clear scope.

Tariff rules have changed several times in 2026, and parts of the current rules are still being contested, so check with your customs broker or attorney before acting on any single rule. What you can control is how quickly you can see exposure by part and supplier. Two data points from Netstock, a vendor survey of small and mid-size businesses, show how teams are reacting:

• In the Netstock 2026 Tariff Impact Report, 35% of surveyed SMBs changed suppliers because of tariffs in the past 12 months.
• In the Netstock 2026 Planning Benchmark, 68% of surveyed SMBs use no alternative procurement strategy.

Survey figures are directional, not a forecast for your business.

Focused engagements typically run two to five weeks once the scope and core inputs are confirmed. We state assumptions and timing up front.

The goal is a clearer basis for sourcing, pricing and planning conversations: shared assumptions, a more visible risk register, better questions for trade specialists, a repeatable planning rhythm and a roadmap your team can test. Outcomes depend on the quality of your data and the decisions your team chooses to pursue. We do not guarantee savings, lower cost, a particular supplier or a specific inventory result.

Can you provide legal or customs advice?

No. We organize operational information and questions for review with your customs broker or counsel. Specialist advice stays with them, so check with your customs broker or attorney on tariff questions.

What information should we prepare?

Useful inputs include supplier and country lists, product or part identifiers, bills of material, spend or volume data and existing classification notes. We can start with what is available.

Will you recommend a supplier?

We can frame supplier and dependency trade-offs and qualification criteria, but your team makes the commercial and technical selection.

Is reshoring always the answer?

No. We build a fact-based roadmap rather than promising a blanket reshoring outcome.

Do we need sophisticated planning software for S&OP?

No. We can start with spreadsheets and existing reports, then define what information or system improvements are actually needed.

Will you set our safety-stock levels?

We can help establish the inputs, segmentation, review logic and ownership used to set policies. Final targets remain your operating decision.

Is this suitable for a small business?

Yes. We right-size the work around a short list of products, suppliers and decisions.

Pair this work with Operations when flow, capacity and freight planning are part of the problem, or AI Support when you need a forecast baseline, a shared KPI view or the Landed-Cost & Tariff What-If Dashboard. You can also read how we work or browse all services.