What’s actually breaking your supply chain?
Supply chains are navigating a new set of pressures, and most organizations are absorbing them reactively.
These aren't future risks. They're active problems sitting in your operations right now.
SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERTISE
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.
Huron works across five interconnected areas to diagnose root causes, close gaps, and build supply chains that perform under pressure. Whether you are optimizing an existing network or leading a full supply chain transformation, connecting strategy to execution allows you to stay accountable for results.
Supply chain and network design
Huron builds strategies that link business goals to cost-to-serve, service levels, and working capital — designing networks and optimizing locations, flows, and node roles to reduce total cost and improve responsiveness. Complexity that does not create value is identified and removed, simplifying decisions across the value chain to improve agility and reduce cost.
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 — integrating AI-enabled demand signals, aligning inventory optimization strategy and policy, improving S&OP/S&OE, and applying advanced analytics to enable faster, more reliable decisions.
Sourcing and supplier management
Sourcing decisions connected to total cost, supplier performance, and resilience — designing strategies that balance cost, service, and risk while improving supply continuity, managing supplier collaboration and performance, reducing source-to-pay complexity, and building resilience against supplier concentration risk.
Manufacturing and operational excellence
Operational issues often show up on the shop floor but originate upstream. Production planning matched to actual capacity, materials, and demand to reduce disruptions and improve throughput — optimizing plant performance, managing aftermarket and service supply chains, and increasing cost efficiency across operations.
Logistics, fulfillment, and distribution
Logistics and fulfillment are where supply chain performance becomes visible. Warehousing, transportation, and fulfillment calibrated to actual demand — redesigning operations to improve throughput and accuracy, strengthening order fulfillment and OTIF performance, optimizing transportation, and improving last mile execution and real-time visibility.
Client results
How our work improves cost, cash, and service
The following results represent realized outcomes from supply chain transformation — embedded in day-to-day operations, not projections.
66%
increase in warehouse picking efficiency for an appliance manufacturer
40
hours decrease in dock-to-door for global biomedical device manufacturer
9M
dollar reduction in WIP for a global orthopedic manufacturer
Markets we serve
Huron works with organizations where supply chain performance directly impacts cost, cash, and customer outcomes. This applies from mid-market companies to global enterprises across industries where complexity, scale, and transformation are central to performance.
Transportation and Logistics
Optimize transportation, warehousing, and fulfillment operations with a focus on structural cost reduction, not just finding short-term fixes.
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
Supply chain leaders are not short on recommendations. They are short on firms that 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.
What differentiates Huron is not a tool or a methodology. It is how we deliver — one team across strategy, operations, and technology, staying accountable through execution until improvements in cost, cash, and service are real and sustained.
Inside live supply chains
No parallel workstreams or theoretical designs. Operating within your planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment environments as they run, designing change that works under real conditions.
Measurable outcomes
Prioritizing the actions that materially improve performance: Cost reduction that holds, inventory that stops tying up cash, and service improvements that reduce expediting and variability.
Cross-industry supply chain depth
Senior expertise, not junior teams. Our senior experts engage directly in your operations, not as advisors from the sidelines, but as hands-on practitioners accountable for results.
Technology where it drives performance
ERP, data, and AI are only valuable when they improve how decisions are made and executed. Digital capabilities embedded into operations deliver measurable results, not just system upgrades.
The pace your business requires
Issues diagnosed quickly, moving into execution without delay — addressing performance gaps in weeks, not months.
Our teams bring deep experience across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment — operators, functional leaders, and advisors who have worked inside the environments you are managing today. We work alongside your teams to address the issues that matter most, connecting strategy to execution across supply chain, operations, finance, and digital.
Work with people who actually understand how your supply chain runs:
- Reduce costs without compromising service levels
- Improve on-time, in-full delivery and reduce expediting
- Unlock working capital through better inventory and planning decisions
- Redesign supply chain networks for resilience and efficiency
- Align demand, supply, and operations to improve forecast accuracy
- Strengthen supplier performance and reduce supply risk
- Improve manufacturing throughput, scheduling, and operational reliability
- Optimize warehousing, fulfillment, and transportation performance
- Apply AI and analytics to improve planning and execution decisions
- Turn ERP and digital investments into measurable operational results
John Tierney
Managing Director
John has more than 30 years of experience helping clients address their challenges in supply chain, manufacturing, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations. He has helped domestic and global clients across several industries to drive cost savings and realize operational synergies through process and systems transformation.
