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Build Supply Chains that Outperform

Our supply chain management services and leadership provide comprehensive strategy, product, channels, process, infrastructure, and growth solutions tailored to your middle-market company's needs. From strategic sourcing to shared services design, we build, coordinate, align, and optimize dynamic solutions to realize new, repeatable, scalable value.

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Strategy

It's time to redefine what your supply chain can achieve. We deep dive into your business objectives to craft a Supply Chain Strategy that delivers maximum impact—whether that means elevating sourcing to structured category management, designing shared services models, or evaluating outsourcing opportunities to reduce SG&A and strengthen margins.

Your supply chain is either funding your growth or constraining it. Let's identify where you're leaving performance on the table—and build a roadmap to capture it.

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Why work with us

We don't just identify the problem. We stay until it's solved.

We're operators who consult—not consultants who've studied operations. Every engagement is structured around measurable financial outcomes and executive alignment. We leave your organization with capabilities that are yours to keep.

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Get the strategic clarity and financial visibility to lead with confidence. Turn supply chain from a cost center to a growth engine.

OPERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Our embedded teams redesign processes, deploy technology, and build the organizational capability that makes transformation stick.

FLEXIBILITY
From M&A to new markets to improved cost structure, we design supply chains that give you the flexibility to move fast and with confidence.

RESILIENCY
We build structures with supplier depth, redundancy, and real-time visibility that hold when conditions change.

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Transformative Supply Chain Capabilities

Logistics & Distribution

Freight spend and delivery performance are directly visible to your customers and your CFO—making logistics one of the highest-impact areas to optimize. We apply data-driven freight analysis, intelligent route planning, and real-time supply chain visibility to reduce landed cost and improve on-time, in-full delivery across your entire distribution network.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: Landed Cost, Freight as % of Revenue, On-Time In-Full (OTIF).

Integrated Business Planning / S&OP

When sales, operations, finance, and technology operate from separate plans, the result is misaligned inventory, missed revenue, and reactive decision-making. We build integrated planning frameworks that unite your leadership team around a single, rolling operating plan—converting cross-functional friction into coordinated, confident execution.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: Forecast Accuracy, EBITDA Margin, Asset Utilization (OEE).

Inventory & Cash Flow Management

For growing midmarket companies, inventory is often the largest underperforming asset on the balance sheet—locking up capital that could fund growth. We design inventory strategies that right-size stock levels across your supply chain, reducing days inventory outstanding and converting working capital into a competitive advantage.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), Working Capital, Cash-to-Cash Cycle.

Process Automation & Technology Leverage

Manual, error-prone processes quietly erode margin and drain your team's capacity for higher-value work. We identify operational inefficiencies and implement targeted automation solutions that reduce transaction costs, minimize errors, and redirect your people toward activities that drive profitable, sustainable growth.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: OpEx (Indirect Labor Cost), PO Cycle Time, Cost per Transaction.

Shared Services & Business Process Outsourcing

Scaling a midmarket business without adding proportional overhead requires operational infrastructure that grows smarter—not just larger. We design shared services models and evaluate outsourcing opportunities to standardize best practices, reduce SG&A, and create the scalability needed to support your next stage of growth.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: SG&A as % of Revenue, Labor Productivity, Scalability Ratio.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

Most midmarket companies manage procurement by vendor relationship rather than by spend strategy—leaving significant margin improvement on the table. We elevate sourcing from transactional purchasing to structured category management, applying total cost of ownership analysis across your spend portfolio to capture material savings and strengthen gross margin.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Direct Material Savings (10-20%), Gross Margin %.

Strategic Supplier Partnerships & Performance Management

During supply disruptions, preferred customers get served first—and most midmarket companies haven't invested in becoming one. We help you build supplier relationships that go beyond transactional contracts, securing supply continuity, creating business development and R&D leverage, and converting key suppliers into strategic competitive assets.

Key Financial Impact Delivered: Supplier Lead Time, Supply Continuity (Risk), PPA (Purchase Price Variance).

Supply Chain Interim & Fractional Leadership

If needed, we can step in as an interim or fractional Chief Supply Chain Officer, COO, or VP of Supply Chain. We also provide mentoring and advisory support for new supply chain executives.

Meet Our Supply Chain Management Team

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E. Jeffrey Hutchinson

Operating Partner
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Ken Goins

Operating Partner
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Tim Tsouchlos

Operating Partner
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Chris Gwiazda

Operating Partner
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Shawn Holtzclaw

Managing Partner - Strategy & Transformation; Supply Chain Practice Lead
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Alejandro Mainetto

Operating Partner
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Mike Casey

Managing Partner; Co-Lead Turnaround & Restructuring
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Tracy Deuell

Tracy Deuell

Managing Partner, Technology Strategy Services, Industrials Practice Lead
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Mark Livingston

Operating Partner; Interim CFO; Co-Lead Industrials & Energy sectors
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Supply Chain Management Reviews from Clients

CXO Partners reduced inventory by our improving purchasing processes and addressing overstocks. We now have SIOP aligned into one operating model. Remarkable!

— Manufacturing & Distribution Co., Founder & CEO

We improved our operating performance and had decidedly faster decision making by establishing a weekly cadence focused on demand, inventory/liquidity, operations capacity and executive alignment.

— Sporting Goods Brand, CEO

We increased capacity 10X. We also launched new product in new channels on time and with new packaging.

— Fiber and materials innovation firm in cosmetics & beauty space

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