About
Founder and Principal, Strategic Supply Group. Twenty five years buying raw materials, components, and finished goods for manufacturers and distributors, now doing that work for companies that need the capability without the headcount.
Background
My career has been spent inside purchasing departments, not next to them. Raw materials, MRO, metals, wire rope, hardware, electronic components, apparel, and multi site supplier management. Supplier bases in the hundreds. SKU counts in the tens of thousands. Spend in the eight figures.
I have negotiated directly with factories in China, India, Slovakia, and the Netherlands, and managed supplier relationships across 21 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. I have built the RFQ, run the scorecard, made the recommendation, placed the order, chased the order, and answered for it when it was late.
That is the difference I am selling. Advice is easy to give and hard to act on. Execution is the part most small and mid size companies actually need, and it is the part I do.
Epicor Prophet 21, Epicor BisTrack, NetSuite, Infor Syteline, Fishbowl, QuickBooks, SAP Ariba, SourceDay, Slimstock, with ERP selection and implementation experience.
Why fractional
Salary, payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting cost, ramp up time, and the risk that the person you hire is not the person you interviewed. For a company buying a few million dollars a year, that is a heavy commitment to make on a hunch.
You get senior capability for the piece of the week that actually needs it, at a fixed monthly cost you can stop with 30 or 60 days notice. If the volume grows into a full time role, you will know it, and you will have a clean, documented function to hand the new hire.
How I work
Strategic Supply Group operates from New Gloucester, Maine and serves manufacturers and distributors across the United States. Travel to supplier or customer sites is arranged per engagement.
Next step
Twenty minutes on the phone will tell both of us whether this is a fit.