From symptom to root cause to the P&L line.
Every engagement runs on the same backbone: SIPOC, metrics, root cause to financial impact, value creation, and value leakage.
Four steps, no multi-year commitment
Listen and diagnose
Start with the department lead's real problem and current state.
Scope small and targeted
A focused scope that fits a department budget and timeline.
Work alongside your team
Co-deliver with end users so capability stays in the business.
Sustain and expand
Lock in results, then extend to adjacent processes, sites, or countries.
Verdon's six-step problem-solving process
Clarify the problem
Agree what is wrong, for whom, and how we'll know it's fixed.
Structure it
Break the problem into drivers so nothing is missed.
Prioritize
Focus on the drivers with the most value.
Analyze to root cause
Validate causes with data and quantify the impact.
Synthesize
Turn findings into options and a decision-forcing brief with a specific ask.
Roadmap and track
Owners, KPI baselines, governance cadence, and a Finance-validated benefit tracker.
Built for VP, Director, and department leads
Supply chain, planning, and operations leaders who need results now, are choosing or living with new planning software, or have outgrown their processes, and want a partner working side by side with their team.
Have a problem in mind?
A 30-minute discovery call is the fastest way to find out if we can help.
Spot the leak before it hits your P&L.
Each morning: the supply chain news that matters, the symptom behind it, and what it does to inventory, freight, and margin. IBP, ITP and S&OE, procurement, and logistics, written for operators.