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The world's biggest challenges—economic uncertainty, geopolitical conflict, cybersecurity threats—all impact your supply chain, causing delayed deliveries, increased costs, inventory shortages, and more. While these external factors are beyond your control, your response isn't. You need supply chain infrastructure that consistently performs efficiently, regardless of the macroeconomic landscape.

Our hands-on experts show up on-site, in-plant, and on the floor to optimize your supply chain from end to end. Leveraging solutions rooted in data and technology, we evaluate your processes to identify root-cause barriers to agility and overcome them—enabling scalability, reducing costs, driving EBITDA, and expanding your multiple.
PAIN POINT

Significant supply chain disruptions from inaccurate demand forecasts, master data, and demand synchronization, ineffective integration of new products/promotions, and inventory optimization complexity.

What Accordion brings:
Establish cross-functional cadence.
Establish regular cadence and clear expectations for inputs and outputs from cross-functional teams, including Sales, Finance, and Operations.
Document escalation process.
Document the escalation process to resolve forecasting, inventory, or delivery issues.
Automate real-time supply feedback.
Where possible, automate real-time feedback to enhance supply planning needs such as inventory and logistics.
Develop a scalable planning playbook.
Develop a playbook to scale up the refined forecasting and demand planning processes.
PAIN POINT

Sourcing challenges and reduced procurement efficiency due to inefficient processes, lack of transparency, risk management issues, and limited leverage in supplier negotiations.

What Accordion brings:
Maximize purchasing power.
Leverage combined purchasing power to obtain the best value in pricing, service level, lead time, and minimum order quantity while driving competitive bidding between suppliers.
Analyze pricing & cost reduction opportunities.
Perform analysis across companies to identify price harmonization opportunities, reduce costs, and drive cost savings through product design refinements and manufacturing process optimizations.
Secure favorable contracts & rebates.
Secure volume rebates and favorable contract terms to drive cost savings, improve working capital, reduce supply risk, and foster transparent supplier relationships.
Benchmark costs for savings.
Compare internal costs and benchmark across companies to identify cost reduction opportunities through insourcing vs. outsourcing decisions.
Standardize supplier requirements.
Align service standards and quality requirements to provide competition and consistency among suppliers.
PAIN POINT

Manufacturing risks stemming from production inefficiencies, inconsistent processes, outdated technology, employee retention issues, and intense competitive pressures.

What Accordion brings:
Optimize delivery & warehousing.
Identify delivery points and warehousing locations, assess costs, and determine inbound/outbound costs.
Enhance inventory & space efficiency.
Understand inventory impacts and optimize space utilization vs. outsourcing.
Forecast overhead & labor costs.
Develop plant overhead cost projections and assess direct/indirect labor costs.
Evaluate relocation & capital needs.
Assess one-time costs by evaluating headcount relocation, facility disposal costs, and capital requirements for new equipment.
Implement lean for labor efficiency.
Execute rapid lean deployment to increase labor efficiencies, improve flow in the plant, and improve throughput.
Drive cost reduction with Kaizen.
Deploy Kaizen events to decrease costs and improve quality.
PAIN POINT

Excess and inaccurate inventory resulting from suboptimal order quantities, imbalanced distribution, and ineffective inventory management.

What Accordion brings:
Optimize S&OP with KPI tracking.
Implement effective S&OP processes with KPI tracking and manage excess/obsolete inventory.
Align sales & operations ownership.
Align sales and operations teams to ensure distinct ownership of inventory levels, supply execution, and customer delivery performance.
Ensure data precision & real-time analytics.
Ensure precision in master data, implement robust controls for continuous monitoring and validation, and incorporate real-time analytical capabilities for proactive adjustments.
PAIN POINT

High transportation costs and inefficiencies caused by low visibility and an outdated logistics network.

What Accordion brings:
Optimize transportation for load efficiency.
Ensure utilization of the proper mode of transportation for the right load.
Maximize fleet utilization & right-sizing.
Improve utilization of fleet equipment and right-size if needed.
Leverage technology for best service.
Implement the technology necessary to deliver high-value customer service.

Our proprietary supply chain analytics platform.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Kevin Bernardini
Kevin Bernardini
Managing Director

Kevin Bernardini is a Managing Director at Accordion and is the leader of the Supply Chain / Operations Center of Excellence in the Transformation Practice. He has nearly 4 decades of experience building professional services businesses with a focus on EBITDA Enhancement and Value Creation.

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Mark Inge
Mark Inge
Managing Director

Mark Inge is a Managing Director with a career spanning over 33 years in the dynamic realm of Supply Chain management. Mark stands as a seasoned and accomplished professional in the field. Armed with a wealth of experience, he has navigated the intricacies of Supply Chain with precision and strategic insight.

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Jon Morse
Jon Morse
Managing Director

Jon Morse is a Managing Director with nearly 30 years of experience in Supply Chain Management and Execution, Operations Transformation, MRP/ERP Optimization, and Supply Chain Strategy and Network Design.

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Bob Ruppert
Bob Ruppert
Managing Director

Bob is a Managing Director with more than 35 years of experience in consulting, supply chain, and operations leadership positions. He has extensive expertise in operations improvement, lean manufacturing, Toyota Production System, supply chain management, and network optimization. Prior to joining Accordion, Bob was an Engagement Director with OperationsRx. There, his expertise was centered on operational turnaround, cost reduction, supply...

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