Operator-led supply chain advisory · Houston, TX

Your supply chain is quietly leaking cash. We build the system that stops it.

We find the leaks, price the fix, and stand up the operating rhythm that survives Monday — with frameworks built on the operating floor, not in slide decks.

$20M+ delivered across chemicals, CPG, healthcare & pharma. Operator-built results — eighteen years on the floor and in the boardroom.

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Build. Control. Scale.
The expensive problem

Growth outruns the systems running it.

When operations scale faster than the systems beneath them, the cost shows up in four places — quietly, every month, until someone puts a number on it.

Cost leakage

Spot-buying, single-source exposure, and packaging and freight spend nobody is actively managing.

Stockouts & expediting

Lost sales and premium freight covering for forecasts that live in spreadsheets and gut feel.

Trapped working capital

Cash buried in the wrong inventory because min/max and planning aren't tied to financial targets.

Planning chaos

Firefighting instead of an operating rhythm — no S&OP, no ownership, no single version of the truth.

How we work

SCALE™ — our operating framework™

A five-stage path from operational bleeding to measurable, repeatable performance — the method behind every 16Twenty engagement, and the maturity ladder we score you against.
BUILD → CONTROL → SCALE
S

Stabilize

STOP THE BLEED
  • Halt cost & cash bleed
  • Surface immediate risks
  • Establish a baseline
MATURITY L1
C

Clarify

SEE REALITY
  • Create visibility
  • Expose root causes
  • Define reality with data
MATURITY L2
A

Align

ONE DIRECTION
  • Align people & goals
  • Set clear ownership
  • Build accountability
MATURITY L3
L

Leverage

DO MORE WITH LESS
  • Maximize systems & tech
  • Automate the manual
  • Lift efficiency
MATURITY L4
E

Execute

MAKE IT REAL
  • Implement solutions
  • Track performance
  • Deliver outcomes
MATURITY L5
The secret sauce

Meet P.A.G.E. — The Conductor Behind SCALE™

Not another dashboard. P.A.G.E. (Planning, Analysis, & Governance Ensemble) is an orchestrated ecosystem of specialist agents, directed by a senior human operator. It runs a full supply-chain team in parallel, delivering deep institutional audits in weeks rather than quarters.

P.A.G.E.
Conductor
Reads the whole score. Sets the tempo. Cues each section. Balances it into one performance.
one beat · all sections at once
SStabilize
Inventory-accuracy agent
CClarify
Process & data-map agent
AAlign
Demand–supply–finance agent
LLeverage
Spend & sourcing agent
EExecute
KPI & cadence agent
SCALE™ is the sheet music. P.A.G.E. is the conductor that ensures the orchestra sounds like a single cohesive unit rather than five soloists tuning their instruments.
Phase
What the section plays
Subagents in the pit
StabilizeS
Stop the bleeding — reconcile record-vs-reality, halt write-offs and premium-freight leakage.
inventory-accuracyexpiry/lotfreight-leak
ClarifyC
Map processes, ownership, and the real data — what's measured vs. what leadership needs to decide.
process-mapspend-cubeKPI-gap
AlignA
Put supply, demand, finance, and ops on one plan — a single signal, not four spreadsheets.
demand-plansupply-riskfinance-recon
LeverageL
Use data, vendors, and packaging/network design to take cost out and release working capital.
sourcingnetwork/lanepackaging-spec
ExecuteE
Install the operating rhythm — KPI dashboard, cadence, and accountability that survive Monday.
cadence-builddashboardgovernance

Experience P.A.G.E. in Performance

Want to see how P.A.G.E. analyzes inventory records, freight lanes, and GL spend in real-time? Try our interactive Dashboard Studio demo.

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What we do

Engagements that build, control, and scale operations.

Start with a fixed-scope Diagnostic, then go as deep as the work requires — from one-time builds to fractional leadership.

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Paid entry point

Supply Chain Stability Diagnostic

A fast, fixed-scope assessment that finds where cost and service are leaking, scores your operation against the SCALE™ maturity model, and hands you a prioritized 30/60/90-day roadmap.

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Retainer

Fractional Supply Chain Leadership

Senior operating leadership on a retainer — own S&OP, planning, sourcing, and the team build for companies between Series A and exit.

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Build

S&OP & Demand Planning

Stand up the monthly operating rhythm and forecasting discipline that lifts service levels and frees trapped working capital.

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Build

Operations Command Center

Live KPI dashboards and AI-augmented reporting so leadership decides on data, not gut — the visibility layer your operation is missing.

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The entry offer

The Supply Chain Stability Diagnostic

In two to three weeks you get a clear, quantified picture of where money and service are leaking, your operation scored L1–L5, and a roadmap your team can own — not a binder of theory.

WHAT YOU GET

  • Leadership intake & goals
  • Current-state assessment
  • Inventory accuracy review
  • Procurement & spend review
  • Maturity scorecard (L1–L5)
  • KPI gap analysis
  • Risk & opportunity heat map
  • Immediate quick wins
  • 30/60/90-day roadmap
  • Executive readout

At a glance

Timeline2–3 weeks
FormatFixed scope, paid
OutputRoadmap + readout
CreditApplies to implementation

Designed to pay for itself — and the fee credits toward any implementation booked within 60 days.

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Proof, not slideware

Eighteen years. Real operating outcomes.

A track record built on the operations floor and in the boardroom — across chemicals, consumer goods, healthcare, and 503A pharmacy.

$20M+
Aggregate COGS, logistics & working-capital savings
$14M+
Annualized logistics savings from a cold-chain packaging redesign
$8M+
Working capital released through inventory governance
$4.1M
Procurement savings restructuring sourcing direct-from-manufacturer (−50–60% unit cost)
$88K/mo
Recurring savings from renegotiated specialty-packaging procurement
1 → 65+
Scaled an operation across procurement, inventory, warehouse & logistics
88 → 98%
In-stock rate lift · service levels 78% → 97%
95%+
Monthly S&OP attendance · forecast accuracy +12–22%
~⅓
3PL spend cut · 20+ site distribution network consolidated
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Aaron Edwards, Founder & Principal Advisor of 16Twenty Consulting
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Who you work with

An operator who builds the system.

16Twenty is led by Aaron Edwards — eighteen years running supply chains across specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, consumer goods, OTC health, and 503A compounding pharmacy.

The constant across all of them: operations bottlenecks look complicated until you build the right system around them. You get someone who has operated inside the complexity and builds the process, the metrics, and the operating rhythm that survive Monday — not a junior team and a deck.

Aaron EdwardsFounder & Principal Advisor · 16Twenty Consulting
Scale Is Earned.

If you're running operations at a growing company and the systems are starting to crack, let's put a number on what it's costing — and a plan on how to fix it.

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