SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTING
With Robert Murray, Supply Chain Optimization Consultant, CHPCRelationship Based Supply Chain Management
With over thirty years of operations, sales, and supply chain experience, I help empower organizations to use their supply chain as a strategic tool to grow their business. I help organizations find and build upon their strengths, and add resilience to their systems. When analyzing your supply chain, I can provide valuable insight for new opportunities to reduce costs, improve lead times, produce greater revenue growth, improve customer relationships, and lower liability and risk.
As a Supply Chain Optimization Consultant, I specialize in helping manufacturers and distribution companies improve:
- Supplier relationship management
- Productivity and efficiency
- Direct and indirect costs
- Change management
- Negotiation strategies
- Team building
- Logistics management
- Strategic Sourcing
Let’s discuss your supply chain challenges and together we can develop a sustainable growth strategy to increase growth, sales, and customer satisfaction.

Helping companies manage their distribution and manufacturing supply chains
Here are some examples of results I’ve gotten for companies:
- Grew a company from a start-up operation to over $200 Million using advanced project management and supply chain techniques.
- Transformed the supply chain of a fast-growing private equity owned company to increase revenue from $55 Million to $100 Million in 2 years, and to prepare for growth to over $200 Million.
- Directed large scale projects such as the establishment of sourcing, purchasing, quality management offices in China and India.
- Reduced supplier lead times from an average of 160 days to 120 days through process improvements and better communications (forecast sharing).
- Negotiated small pack shipping contracts for a savings of 16% over previous rates, saving over $550K.
- Implemented an industrial vending system in under 12 weeks generating a 43% savings.
- Led a multi-divisional vendor consolidation and leveraging project with an industrial distributor providing savings over $300K.
- Set up a vendor managed inventory warehouse generating $13 Million in revenue managing the project plan from design to site selection to set-up and operation.