WAREHOUSE & MRO STOREROOM CONSULTING
We fix the warehouse before anyone sells you software.
We work on your floor: receiving, bin locations, counts, issue and return. We write the SOPs, then stay to roll them out with your crew. We sell no software, so nobody pays us to tell you that you need some.
No vendor pays us. You do. We take no commissions or referral fees from any software company.
WHAT WE WORK ON, IN YOUR BUILDING
If you keep stock in a room and people depend on it, this is for you.
Whether you ship orders to customers or issue parts to a maintenance crew, the problems look about the same once you're standing in the aisle.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
If your warehouse runs on workarounds, you're not alone.
Most operations don't have one big broken thing. They have a pile of small ones that add up. The hard part is telling the process problems from the software problems before you spend money on either, and that's where we start.
Start with a Flight Check
ORDER ACCURACY
Mispicks keep reaching customers
Every wrong pick turns into a credit and a reship. The real cost never shows up on one line of the P&L.
CYCLE COUNTS
Physical counts take days
Everyone counts all weekend, and the adjustments are still big enough that nobody trusts the result.
INVENTORY TRUST
Nobody believes the on-hand
So people keep their own spreadsheets and walk the aisle to check before they promise anything.
THROUGHPUT
Pickers walk miles per shift
Slotting happened years ago. Today's fast movers sit at the back of the building.
RECEIVING
Stock is in, but invisible
It's on the dock and in the system, but nobody can pick it until putaway catches up.
SPARE PARTS
The part is in the building somewhere
A chiller sits down while a tech hunts for a part the system says is on the shelf. Then someone overnights another one.
Start with the warehouse, not the software.
A Flight Check is two to four weeks on your floor, following stock from the dock to the shelf to the order. When it's done you'll know what's broken and what it's costing you. Fixing it comes next, with your team or with us. Software only comes up if it's really the bottleneck.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
- Current-state map. How the operation runs today.
- Future-state map. How it should run.
- Findings report. Each item with a rough ROI.
- 90-day plan. In priority order, written so your team can run it.
Four services. Most clients need two.
You can stop after any of them. Software comes last, if it comes at all.
ON YOUR FLOOR
WHERE MOST OF THE MONEY COMES BACK
01 / DIAGNOSE / 2 TO 4 WEEKS
Flight Check
Operational Assessment
We watch how receiving, storage, picking and issuing really work, then set a KPI baseline to measure against.
02 / FIX / 4 TO 6 WEEKS
Ground Crew
SOPs & On-Site Rollout
We write the SOPs, then come back on site and run them with your crew until the new way sticks.
ONLY IF SOFTWARE IS THE BOTTLENECK
03 / DECIDE / 4 TO 8 WEEKS
Flight Plan
A vendor-neutral system selection where you write the demo scripts.
04 / DELIVER / 8 TO 16+ WEEKS
Tower Control
Independent oversight of the rollout, on your side of the table.
When the person recommending the software also gets paid to sell it, that's a pitch.
Think of an air traffic controller. They don't fly the plane and they don't work for the airline, which is why pilots listen to them. That's the seat we take, whether the question is your process or your software.
MOST ADVISORS
- Paid by the vendor they recommend
- Partnered with one or two platforms
- Run the demo the vendor wrote
- Get paid when you buy
INVENTORYATC
- Paid by you
- Partnered with nobody
- Run demos from your script
- Paid the same if you buy nothing
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
The person who scopes the work is the person who does it.
Cody Smith has walked receiving docks, mezzanines and resort engineering storerooms. He does the floor walk, the process maps, the SOPs and the crew training himself.
He spent more than a decade on the vendor side of ERP and WMS deals, so he knows how software gets pitched and when it won't fix the problem. That's why every engagement starts with your process.
- 14+years in warehouse ops and systems
- 100+on-site consultations
- 600+total engagements
- 0vendor commissions
Straight answers
How do you make money if you don't take vendor fees?
You pay us directly, and that's the only money involved. No referral fees and no reseller agreements. We earn the same whichever system you end up with, including the one you already have.
What if the answer is that we don't need new software?
Then the report says so, in writing. You've paid for an assessment instead of a system that wouldn't have fixed the problem. That outcome is more common than the software industry admits.
Who is this actually for?
Distributors and manufacturers, roughly $5M to $100M, plus the MRO storerooms behind resorts, hospitals, campuses and aviation shops. If your operation hurts when it breaks and nobody on staff has time to fix it, that's who we work with.
What does the engagement look like day to day?
Most of it happens on your floor, not in a conference room. We follow stock from receiving to shipping, map what we see, and show you where the money is leaking. If you want help rolling out the fixes, we come back for Ground Crew.
Start with a Flight Check.
Two to four weeks on your floor. You leave with a written plan your team can run, with or without us.
We reply within one business day.