Fractional Chief Supply Chain Officer
Optimize your supply chain and accelerate the cash conversion cycle.
Summary
For a growing company, the right supply chain strategy can mean the difference between efficient growth and operational bottlenecks. A Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) provides the oversight and strategic planning needed to optimize logistics, procurement, and inventory management. However, hiring a full-time CSCO can be costly—especially for businesses in the early stages of scaling. That’s where a fractional CSCO comes in: a flexible, cost-effective solution that delivers high-level expertise without the long-term commitment.
Why Your Company Needs a CSCO
A strong, resilient supply chain features the symbiotic and timely movement of three things: goods or services, cash, and data. A good CSCO knows how to harmonize and tune the pipes which deliver them.
- Optimize and Scale: A CSCO drives supply chain efficiency and agility by streamlining processes, optimizing resources, and aligning strategies with business objectives.
- Mitigate Growth Challenges: With expert leadership, a CSCO addresses key issues like vendor management, delivery timelines, and inventory balance, preventing costly inefficiencies.
- Ensure Resilience: A CSCO builds a scalable, resilient supply chain to reduce risks, minimize costs, and enhance customer satisfaction during periods of rapid growth.
Why a Fractional CSCO?
A full-time, permanent CSCO is a big salary investment. Our fractional model is a great way to realize some of the same benefits, but without the hit to your operating budget.
- Cost-Effective Expertise: Gain high-level supply chain leadership without the expense of a full-time hire, including salary, benefits, and equity.
- Flexible and Scalable Support: A fractional CSCO provides tailored, part-time guidance that adapts to your company’s needs as it grows.
- Strategic Agility: Leverage experienced leadership to solve complex supply chain challenges and maintain a strategic edge without long-term commitments.
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Chart the Field
Capture key details of the supply chain environment and operations.
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Define Success
Illuminate key goals and define our shared success metrics.
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Create the Playbook
Develop our onboarding and resource plan.
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Start Our Engines
Begin. Execute on the Playbook with urgency and precision.
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Measure and Adapt
Measure our progress, adapt, and steer towards success.
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Exit and Reflect
Define the sustainable post-CSCO solution and recruit, train, or both.
A Bridge to Sustainable Excellence
I approach each engagement as a bridge to your future—a temporary yet transformative collaboration that helps develop and stabilize your supply chain capabilities as you scale. We might work together for a month, we might work together for a year… you’re in the driver’s seat.
- Start with Why
- Begin with the End in Mind
- Think Two Steps Ahead
- Execute with Urgency
When we partner to work on the business, your best interests are my number one priority—even if they aren’t my best interests. If you’re tired of endless consultants just working to keep you on the hook, maybe it’s time to try something new.
Hi, I’m Paul.
