Your Experienced Supply Chain, Finance, and Strategic Advisor

We Are the Middle-Market Partner for Critical Projects

The Waypost team helped us setup our organization for world-class supply chain excellence. They've done this by understanding our strategic objectives, deeply analyzed our business, made clear and actionable recommendations, and helped us do the heavy lifting to put them in place. Would highly recommend them!

I would wholeheartedly endorse Waypost Advisors for any future operations project ... and would recommend them to peers in the medical device industry for their excellent leadership and professionalism.

Waypost provided great insight and recommendations in helping us create a pitch deck used for our initial round of funding. Waypost kept us out of weeds and guided us with the right information.

EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED ADVISORS FOR EVERY PROJECT

At Waypost Advisors, our advisors are vastly experienced in supply chain, finance, and business strategy for manufacturing, food production, and distribution companies. We have the ideal expert for your specific project. Our advisors are leaders with real-world experience working in companies just like yours. They’ve run businesses, been CFOs, and managed complex supply chains and finances from the world’s largest companies to local, middle-market companies.

Our advisors have been in your shoes and understand that you need results; we know what works because we’ve done it before. Our supply chain and financial consultants can help get your critical supply chain, finance, and strategic projects done so you can focus on running your business. We are based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, providing consulting services for middle-market companies across the U.S.

Execution & knoweldge transfer

Our advisors for manufacturing, food production, and distribution companies enter your business with an unbiased view and valuable experience to find the best solution for your business. Our goal is to transfer our financial, strategy, and supply chain knowledge and processes to your organization, so you have the capabilities in-house to continue performing after the engagement ends. At Waypost Advisors, our consultants’ goal is not only to get the objective done efficiently but make sure you’ll continue benefiting long after.

CONSULTING SERVICES FOR MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION

Supply Chain, Operations & Procurement

Grow your business and improve your bottom line with supply chain experts that focus on creating and implementing strategies specific to your supply chain challenges or initiatives.

Finance, Accounting & Analytics

Maximize your cash flow using our manufacturing financial advisors that help you measure, manage, and make decisions to strategically plan your finances and accounting.

Strategic Advisory

Uncover additional value opportunities by partnering with an experienced advisor that will help identify and implement business-specific strategies to grow your business and profitability.

WayFinder Rapid Assessment

Quickly identify and gain clarity into your business with our WayFinder Rapid Assessment that provides an unbiased look into a targeted problem to provide a roadmap of opportunities.

FRACTIONAL RETAINERS FOR SHORT-TERM CONSULTING PROJECTS

Do you need experienced leaders and operators to fill your talent gap?

We provide the expertise you need to fulfill your financial, supply chain, or strategic initiative or solve a business challenge without a long-term commitment. You decide what type of engagement meets your needs. We structure our fractional retainers to build capabilities and knowledge within your team during our partnership. As new short-term projects or initiatives arise, our supply chain and financial advisors will already understand your business from our previous partnership and be able to pick up on the new challenge quickly.

From C-Level to Manager, we have the talent to fill your gap and set your team up for success. Our advisors for mid-market manufacturing, food production, and distribution companies range in experience from 10 to over 25 years across various roles in finance, strategy, supply chain, and operations and procurement.

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Success Stories

A $65MM industrial company needed increased manufacturing capacity while minimizing capital outlay

Waypost Advisors helped the Client to:

Map and fully understand their production and operations processes
Identify key bottlenecks and areas where time and resources were not being used efficiently
Prioritize and formalize de-bottlenecking projects
Establish repeatable best in class practices to improve efficiencies across their supply chain
Provide leadership and project management to keep activities moving forward

The result to the Client was:

Reduction of unproductive equipment set-up time by 40%
Improve warehouse capacity by 5% as a result of a 5S exercise
Increase overall supply capacity by 15% with minimal investment

Success Stories

$175MM CPG company needed to improve customer fulfillment while also managing inventory levels

Waypost Advisors helped the Client to:

More accurately forecast sales and production planning
Understand optimal stock levels by SKU based on demand
Improve production planning and increase operational efficiencies
Optimize customer service level and mitigate inventory risks
Develop statistical forecast model to help make better decisions
Put processes and tools in place to monitor performance

The result to the Client was:

Reduction of stock-outages by 50%
Lowering aged inventory by 25%
Ability for Client to make data-driven decisions without the need to implement an expensive or complicated solution

Waypost Advisors LLC