Scott

Founder, Principal

Founded independent advisory LLC to provide business & procurement consulting solutions for enterprise to SMB clients. Developed proprietary agentic workflow automation capabilities on Claude and Google Stack for internal business processes. Designed a client’s long-term PortCo structure & strategy, Microsoft-native OS & build plan, AI-oriented file directories

Consulting Manager

Directed opportunity analysis on $200M of software spend to deliver a rapid sourcing program for a major utilities company, implementing $3.6M (17%) of value via direct negotiations and qualifying over $12M of additional savings on in-scope spend. Owned the category development plan for over $90B in Facilities Management, IT, Marketing and Architectural spend for a Saudi Arabian economic project, leading a team to establish spend visibility and measure custom KPIs via PBI dashboards. Drove the global transition from SAP ECC to S/4 Hana for Ariba at a Fortune 50 beverage company, leading cross-functional teams to perform follow-the-sun rollout to deliver a successful, on-time go-live across 86 countries and 1200 users. Executed a supplier contract diligence and carve-out program for a global mining client’s divestiture, coordinating cross-continental teams to action 63 agreements, ensuring operational continuity and on-time close of the TSA and transaction. Guided a major U.S. broadcast provider through design phases for GEP P2P, facilitating key design decisions, developing to-be architecture and process maps, business scenarios, taxonomies, UAT strategy, supplier master data cleansing & enrichment. Led teams to deliver solution plans and proposals for clients to deploy procurement operating models, spend analytics, value roadmaps, upskill procurement teams, renegotiate complex supplier relationships, S2P transformation, and MA&D activity. Developed a Value Analytics program and SAM IP to enhance BD and Technology category capabilities within the practice

Senior Consultant

Category Lead

Led U.S category strategy and strategic sourcing for industrial vehicles, establishing the asset master and life cycle management for 1600+ material handling and rolling stock assets, improving utilization and generating $1.4M annual value. Managed a $25M supply base comprised of more than 100 active suppliers supplying 9 categories of direct materials to 3 facilities, implementing MRO VMI programs and over $1.2M of direct material cost reductions and avoidances annually. Implemented an aftermarket consumables program, developing the key strategic supplier partnership to generate $375,000 of new revenue in the first quarter while negotiating 72% price and regulatory cost avoidance. Managed the global category strategy and specification development for material handling automation to facilitate capacity growth and adoption of AGV technology for 60 global sites. Advised teams to select and deploy equipment, services, IIoT, and automation for material handling and distribution projects of varying scale, including negotiation of master agreements for capital equipment, financing, services, and software. Drove NPD sourcing initiatives with cross-functional marketing and engineering teams including DFMEA, process development, teardown analysis, should-cost modeling, make v buy analysis, and implementation for generator components

Buyer