• Build a resilient supply chain that performs under pressure






Tariff shifts, geopolitical pressure, rising customer expectations and the limits of recent technology investments have made supply chain performance harder to sustain. And the cost of getting it wrong is higher than ever.

Missed deliveries, excess inventory, rising costs. These are not isolated issues; they are signals that your supply chain is not working as a single, optimized system.

We help fix that.

Combining deep operational expertise with AI, our teams work across the full value chain to reduce cost-to-serve, improve fill rates, on-time delivery and overall customer experience, release cash tied up in inventory, and build resilience into your network. We move quickly, diagnose issues in weeks, and stay through execution so results show up in your financials, not just your road map.

We apply AI across operational costs diagnostics, demand forecasting, inventory and logistics optimization, network and scenario modeling, and real-time supply chain visibility so every engagement is grounded in data and built to move fast from insights to execution.

Your challenges, our priorities

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    What’s actually breaking your supply chain?

    Cost visibility

    You’re spending more, but don’t know exactly why

    Cost-to-serve is rising across the value chain, yet most organizations can’t tell you exactly where margin is leaking or why. Transportation, sourcing, labor, and complexity costs stack up across the value chain but are often measured in isolation. The result is limited visibility into true profitability by product, customer, or channel.

    Without that clarity, cost reduction becomes reactive. Teams chase savings in silos, often shifting costs rather than eliminating them. You cannot manage what you cannot measure. Without a clear view of end-to-end costs, margin decisions are guesswork.
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    Service performance

    You’re expediting more, but delivering less efficiently

    On-time, in-full performance is inconsistent, even as teams work harder to keep orders moving. Constant expediting, manual intervention, and last-minute decisions have become the norm, masking deeper breakdowns in planning, coordination, and execution.

    Over time, this erodes customer trust and increases operating costs. When service depends on heroics rather than system performance, organizations struggle to scale, and every disruption becomes a fire drill rather than a manageable event.
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    Working capital

    You’re carrying more inventory, but missing demand

    Inventory levels continue to climb, tying up cash across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods. Yet despite the investment, availability issues persist. Stock is often in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or in the wrong mix.

    This imbalance is typically driven by fragmented planning, limited visibility, and disconnected decision making across functions. Without alignment between demand, supply, and execution, inventory becomes a buffer against uncertainty rather than a lever for performance.
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    Network resilience

    Your network works, until it doesn’t

    Supply chains are increasingly exposed to disruption, from global political tensions and supplier concentration to logistics constraints and external shocks. Many networks are optimized for cost and efficiency, but not for resilience. Tariff shifts and nearshoring decisions are accelerating this exposure, forcing network changes before organizations have the visibility or scenarios to make them with confidence.

    When disruption hits, organizations often lack the visibility, scenario planning, and response playbooks needed to act quickly. Recovery becomes slow and reactive, amplifying both financial and operational impact.
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    Disconnected planning

    Your plans don’t match reality

    Demand signals are fragmented across systems, channels, and teams, leading to forecasts that are consistently off target. Sales, operations, and supply chain often operate from different assumptions, creating misalignment that cascades through the entire value chain.

    The downstream impact is significant: overproduction, stockouts, write-offs, and unnecessary cost. Without a connected, data-driven planning process, organizations are forced to react to variability rather than anticipate it.
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    Digital value gap

    You’ve invested in technology, but performance hasn’t improved

    Significant advancements in ERP, data platforms, and AI have modernized the technology backbone, but many organizations struggle to translate their tech spending into measurable business outcomes. Capabilities exist, but they are underutilized, disconnected, or not embedded into day-to-day operations. The pattern shows up in two places right now: AI implementations that produce reports nobody acts on, and ERP go-lives that were supposed to improve planning but introduced new disconnects instead.

    The gap is not just technical, it is operational. Without aligning processes, data, and decision making, technology alone cannot drive performance. Closing that gap requires connecting digital investments directly to how the supply chain runs and delivers margin.

Supply chain expertise

How we improve supply chain performance

Supply chain issues rarely sit in one place. Cost, service, inventory, and disruption are interconnected, yet most organizations still manage them in silos. Planning is disconnected from execution. Sourcing decisions increase downstream complexity. Technology enables activity but not outcomes. We work across five interconnected areas to diagnose root causes, close gaps, and build supply chains that perform under pressure.



Supply chain and network design

We define the structure and economics of your supply chain, aligning network design, cost-to-serve, and resilience strategies with how your business actually operates. By connecting strategic decisions to operational and financial outcomes, we help you reduce complexity, improve margins, and unlock working capital.

End-to-end supply chain strategy

We build strategies that link business goals directly to cost to serve, service levels, and working capital. That means clear tradeoffs, aligned decision making, and a road map that translates into measurable results.

Network design and footprint optimization

We redesign networks around how your supply chain operates today and where it is going, optimizing locations, flows, and node roles to reduce total cost to serve and improve responsiveness.

Cost-to-serve and margin visibility

We connect operational drivers to financial outcomes, creating transparency into cost-to-serve and margin performance at the product, customer, or channel level.

SKU and Portfolio Complexity reduction

We identify and remove complexity that does not create value, simplifying decisions across the value chain to improve agility and reduce cost.

Resilience and scenario planning

We build resilience through scenario modeling, risk-informed design, and proactive planning so you can respond faster and reduce the financial impact of disruption. 

Planning and decision intelligence

Most planning failures aren't data problems; they're coordination problems. We connect demand, supply, and operations into one integrated system, improving forecast accuracy, reducing inventory investment, and enabling faster response to change.

Demand forecasting and signal integration

We integrate demand signals and apply AI-enabled approaches to create a more reliable view of demand and a stronger foundation for inventory, production, and fulfillment decisions.

S&OP / S&OE and integrated business planning

We redesign planning processes so stakeholders align on shared data, clear priorities, and actionable tradeoffs – and actually make fact-based decisions.

Inventory strategy and policy

We define inventory strategies that align service targets, cost, and risk — freeing up cash without compromising availability.

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Advanced analytics for planning and decision making

We embed analytics and AI directly into planning workflows, enabling faster, more informed decisions that drive action, not just insight.

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Sourcing and supplier management

We align sourcing decisions to total cost, supplier performance, and resilience — connecting procurement strategy to supply chain execution to reduce cost, improve reliability, and avoid tradeoffs that surface later in execution.

Sourcing strategy and Category management

We design sourcing strategies that balance cost, service, and risk, delivering structural savings while improving supply continuity.

Source-to-pay transformation

We connect source-to-pay processes end to end, improving transparency, compliance, and efficiency across systems and teams.

Supplier collaboration and performance management

We establish performance frameworks that improve visibility and accountability, driving more consistent supplier outcomes.

Supplier risk and resilience

We assess and mitigate supplier risk through diversification, monitoring, and scenario planning to maintain continuity and reduce the cost of disruption.

Manufacturing and operational excellence

Operational issues often show up on the shop floor but originate upstream. We work inside operations to align planning, scheduling, and execution — increasing throughput, reducing variability, and improving cost efficiency.

Production planning, scheduling, and manufacturing execution

We align production planning with actual capacity, materials, and demand to reduce disruptions, improve throughput, and create more predictable operations.

Plant performance and throughput optimization

We identify and remove constraints across operations to unlock capacity, reduce delays, and lower cost per unit.

Quality and yield improvement

We address root causes of defects and variability, improving process consistency to reduce waste and lower cost.

Aftermarket and service supply chains

We design aftermarket supply chains to align service levels, inventory, and fulfillment with customer needs, improving availability and reducing working capital.

Logistics, fulfillment, and distribution

Logistics and fulfillment are where supply chain performance becomes visible. We align warehousing, transportation, and fulfillment with actual demand and operational realities to improve reliability, reduce cost, and eliminate the need for constant intervention.

Warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution

We redesign operations to improve throughput, accuracy, and efficiency — reducing handling time, increasing capacity, and lowering cost to serve.

Transportation optimization

We optimize routing, carrier strategy, and load planning across the network to reduce cost while maintaining service levels.

Order fulfillment and OTIF performance

We align planning, inventory, and execution to improve order flow from promise to delivery, increasing OTIF and reducing expediting.

Last mile execution and real-time visibility

We enable real-time, AI-supported visibility across the network, allowing faster decisions and more consistent performance under changing conditions.

Markets we serve

We work with organizations where supply chain performance directly impacts cost, cash, and customer outcomes. Our clients operate in environments shaped by disruption, regulatory pressure, and rising expectations for speed and reliability. We work inside live supply chains, connecting strategy to execution and staying through delivery to ensure results are achieved and sustained. Our experience spans mid-market companies to global enterprises, partnering with CFOs, COOs, chief supply chain officers, and operations leaders. We focus on industries where supply chain complexity, scale, and transformation are central to performance.

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    Industrials and manufacturing

    We help manufacturers close the gap between cost pressure and the need to modernize, improving throughput, reducing cost to serve, and building supply chains that hold up when conditions shift.

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    Energy and utilities

    We work inside energy and utility environments to improve materials management, network reliability, and asset performance — where a parts shortage or planning failure affects operations in the field, not just margin.

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    Retail and consumer products

    We help retailers and consumer brands align planning, inventory, and fulfillment so availability improves without working capital ballooning in channels that move faster than most planning cycles.

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    Transportation and logistics

    We optimize transportation, warehousing, and fulfillment operations with a focus on taking structural cost out, not just finding short-term efficiencies.

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    Healthcare

    We help organizations get control of supply costs and performance without disrupting clinical operations, where visibility, inventory accuracy, and distribution reliability are non-negotiable.

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    Life sciences and med tech

    We improve planning, inventory management, and supply continuity in highly regulated, globally distributed environments where the margin for error is narrow.

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    Financial services

    We help financial institutions strengthen procurement processes and supplier management to improve cost control and operational predictability.







See where your supply chain is creating value (and where it’s not)

Leveraging AI, we help you identify where performance is breaking down across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment — and quantify the impact on delivery costs, working capital, and service. In a matter of weeks, we assess your current state, prioritize the actions that will drive measurable improvement, and define a path to execution.


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The market needs a different kind of collaborator

Supply chain leaders are not short on recommendations. They are short on partners who stay accountable for what happens after the plan is approved. Large firms define transformation road maps but step away before results are realized. Technology vendors implement systems that promise value but rarely change how the supply chain actually operates.

The result is fragmented transformation. Cost programs that don't hold, inventory that creeps back, service that depends on expediting rather than system performance. The market needs a different kind of partner: one that connects strategy to execution, aligns operations with financial outcomes, and stays until improvements in cost, working capital, and service levels are real and sustained.

Why supply chain leaders choose Huron

What differentiates Huron is not a tool or a methodology. It is how we deliver. We bring one team across strategy, operations, and technology, focused on the actions that materially improve performance, and we stay accountable through execution. We help clients move from diagnosing issues to delivering measurable improvements in cost, cash, and service, without the disconnects that slow down most transformations.

We are different because we work the way supply chain leaders need us to. We combine deep AI expertise, operational depth, financial discipline, and digital enablement to solve problems at their root and ensure results hold over time.

We work inside live supply chains

No parallel workstreams or theoretical designs. We operate within your planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment environments as they run, designing change that works under real conditions.

We connect strategy to execution

One team, accountable from diagnosis through delivery. We do not hand off work to separate implementation teams. We stay until improvements in cost to serve, service performance, and working capital are realized and sustained.

We focus on measurable outcomes

We prioritize the actions that materially improve performance: cost reduction that holds, inventory that stops tying up cash, and service improvements that reduce expediting and variability.

We bring cross-industry supply chain depth

We bring senior expertise, not junior teams. Our senior experts engage directly in your operations, not as advisors from the sidelines, but as hands-on partners accountable for results.

We embed technology where it drives performance

ERP, data, and AI are only valuable when they improve how decisions are made and executed. We integrate digital capabilities into operations so they deliver measurable results, not just system upgrades. 

We move at the pace your business requires

We diagnose issues quickly and move into execution without delay, helping you address performance gaps in weeks, not months. 

Work with people who understand how your supply chain actually runs

Susana Castella Gonzalo
Managing Director
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Amit Patel
Managing Director, Digital, Oracle
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Greg Pitstick
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Tim Dobkins
Managing Director, Healthcare Performance Improvement
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John Tierney
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Derek Smith
Managing Director, Spend Management
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Make your supply chain work the way you need it to

Whether you are addressing cost pressure, service challenges, or disruption risk, the goal is the same: a supply chain that delivers consistent, measurable results.

Let’s talk about where your biggest opportunities are and how to turn them into sustained performance.