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Hi my name is Rob and I am a Procurement & Supply Chain Consultant with 20+ years of experience helping companies source products and services, reduce costs, manage suppliers, coordinate logistics, and improve supply chain performance. Throughout my career, I have sourced $17MM+ in domestic and international products and services, reviewed $500MM+ in global procurement spend, and delivered 5–25% cost reductions through supplier evaluations, competitive bid analysis, contract negotiations, and strategic sourcing initiatives. I have supported industrial, manufacturing, construction, disaster recovery, eCommerce, private-label, logistics, and service-based procurement projects. I can help your business with supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, product sourcing, service sourcing, vendor qualification, cost benchmarking, spend analysis, logistics coordination, 3PL research, drop-ship models, contract terms, MOQ negotiations, and procurement strategy. My background includes leading procurement, logistics, and materials management for multi-site construction projects, implementing material management systems for large-scale projects, supporting U.S. Virgin Islands disaster recovery programs, and forming supplier alliances that generated measurable cost savings. I also use AI-enabled research and market intelligence tools to accelerate supplier discovery, compare vendors, assess risk, and provide faster, more informed sourcing recommendations. Whether you need help finding a manufacturer, comparing supplier quotes, reducing procurement costs, coordinating logistics, or building a more reliable supply chain, I can provide hands-on support from research through execution. Message me if you need a procurement professional who can combine strategic sourcing experience, practical execution, and data-driven decision-making to help your business save time, reduce costs, and improve supplier performance.

In today’s fast-paced market—especially with the surge of e-commerce—efficient supply chain management is the difference between thriving and struggling. Rising logistics costs, supply chain disruptions, and complex fulfillment challenges can eat into your margins and slow your growth. That’s where I come in. With over 12 years of experience in supply chain and logistics consulting, I’ve helped large corporations like Nike and Coca-Cola, as well as small to medium businesses, build high-performing, cost-efficient supply chains. I specialize in: ✅ Logistics evaluation – Assessing your current setup to identify inefficiencies and cost-saving opportunities ✅ Supply chain cost assessment & benchmarking – Comparing your logistics costs against industry standards to ensure competitiveness ✅ 3PL partner selection & price negotiation – Finding the right fulfillment partners and securing the best possible rates ✅ Procurement strategy & optimization – Helping you source smarter and build resilient supplier relationships ✅ In-house logistics planning & development – Designing scalable logistics solutions tailored to your business model Who I Work With: Manufacturers, private label & white-label distributors Amazon FBA/FBM sellers, Shopify & other e-commerce business owners Dropshipping businesses & franchisers managing multi-location fulfillment Are you facing these challenges? 🔹 Your logistics costs are rising, cutting into your profits 🔹 Your fulfillment, warehousing, or distribution processes are struggling to keep up with demand 🔹 You're unsure if your 3PL is the right fit or if you're overpaying 🔹 You need a reliable plan for scaling your operations efficiently I provide tailored solutions that streamline your logistics, reduce costs, and enhance operational consistency, ensuring that your business remains competitive in an ever-changing market. 💬 Let’s talk! I offer a free initial evaluation using a structured assessment of your logistics and supply chain setup. My services come with a satisfaction guarantee, ensuring a risk-free investment in your business growth. Serkan Selcuk Supply Chain & Logistics Consultant

I help companies turn operational challenges into practical, scalable systems. With more than 20 years of experience, I provide fractional COO leadership and hands-on operational support to startups, established businesses, manufacturers, government contractors, and organizations working across complex global supply chains. My work goes beyond offering recommendations. I help assess the problem, build the plan, coordinate implementation, establish accountability, and keep projects moving. Whether you need ongoing fractional leadership or targeted support for a specific initiative, I can step in quickly and work alongside your internal team, suppliers, manufacturers, and outside partners. Fractional COO & Operational Support I help business owners and leadership teams strengthen day-to-day operations, improve accountability, and build the systems required for sustainable growth. This may include: ✅ Operational assessments and improvement plans ✅ Standard operating procedures and workflow development ✅ Project and program management ✅ Organizational structure and responsibility mapping ✅ KPI development and performance tracking ✅ Process automation and systems implementation ✅ Cost reduction and efficiency initiatives ✅ Vendor, contractor, and partner management ✅ Cross-functional team coordination ✅ Strategic planning and execution support ✅ Interim or fractional operations leadership Supply Chain Management & Procurement I can support individual supply chain challenges or lead a broader transformation involving sourcing, procurement, production, inventory, logistics, and supplier management. My supply chain services include: ✅ Global sourcing and procurement ✅ Supplier identification and qualification ✅ Vendor vetting and factory assessments ✅ RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs ✅ Price and contract negotiations ✅ Purchase-order management ✅ Production planning and oversight ✅ Supplier relationship management ✅ Inventory planning and forecasting ✅ Warehousing and fulfillment strategy ✅ Freight, shipping, and logistics coordination ✅ Supply chain risk and resiliency planning ✅ Quality-control processes ✅ ERP, CRM, and operational system implementation Manufacturing & Product Development I help companies move products from concept through sourcing, prototyping, production, and delivery. I can support targeted manufacturing improvements or help redesign the entire operating model. Services include: ✅ Product development strategy ✅ Design-for-manufacturing coordination ✅ Prototyping and supplier engagement ✅ Domestic and international contract manufacturing ✅ Bill of materials development and review ✅ Cost analysis and value engineering ✅ Production scheduling and capacity planning ✅ Factory and supplier communication ✅ Quality standards and inspection processes ✅ Private-label and white-label manufacturing ✅ New-product introduction and commercialization ✅ Manufacturing process improvement Government & Institutional Proposal Consulting I also assist businesses pursuing opportunities with the U.S. federal government, state and local governments, and international organizations such as the United Nations. Proposal and contracting support may include: ✅ Opportunity identification and qualification ✅ Solicitation and requirements review ✅ Bid/no-bid assessments ✅ Sources Sought and Request for Information responses ✅ Request for Proposal and Request for Quotation responses ✅ Technical and management proposal development ✅ Compliance matrices ✅ Proposal coordination and project management ✅ Capability statements ✅ Past-performance narratives ✅ Pricing coordination ✅ Supplier and subcontractor sourcing ✅ Submission-readiness reviews ✅ Post-award operational and supply chain support Why Work With Me? I combine executive-level thinking with practical implementation. I understand how strategy, people, systems, suppliers, manufacturing, logistics, and customer expectations must work together. My goal is to help you: ✅ Bring structure to fast-moving operations ✅ Reduce costs and operational risk ✅ Improve supplier and team accountability ✅ Build repeatable and measurable processes ✅ Move projects from discussion to execution ✅ Develop products and manufacturing partnerships ✅ Pursue government and institutional opportunities ✅ Scale without losing control of quality or delivery If you need a fractional COO, operational advisor, supply chain manager, manufacturing consultant, product-development partner, or government proposal consultant, I would be glad to discuss your project. Send me a message with an overview of your goals, current challenges, and desired timeline. Let’s determine what support would create the most immediate value. Relevant Expertise Fractional COO | Chief Operating Officer | Operations Consulting | Business Operations | Business Strategy | Process Improvement | SOP Development | Project Management | Program M

Supply Chain/Ops/Contract Manufacturing Leader with 11 years of experience in CPG space Demonstrated expertise supporting supply chain growth in fast paced environments by managing demand forecasting, contract manufacturing, inventory optimization, and safety stock strategies to drive operations and maximize profitability. Strong experience in negotiations and cost savings projects for margin improvement. Passion for supporting startup companies in dynamic industries. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Manufacturing Partner Sourcing | Statistical Forecasting | Supply Planning | Systems Implementation | Budgeting | Cash Flow Reporting | Distribution Planning | Purchasing | Team building/Leadership | Cost Negotiation | Capacity Optimization | Cost Reduction Strategy | Supplier Management | Process Improvement | Safety Stock Strategies | Material Requirements Planning (MRP)| POS Data Analysis |

I've been building demand forecasts and purchase plans for 15 years, across 30+ brands. If you're guessing at reorder points and finding out about stockouts from customers, I've seen your exact situation before. And it's always starts with the same problem, the forecasting logic underneath your demand plan just isn't good enough. That's the part I do. Demand forecasting, safety stock, reorder points, purchase orders by SKU and warehouse and channel, supplier lead times and MOQs, S&OP if you're big enough to need a real cadence, and raw materials and production planning if you make your own product. I offer a few different options: 1) A spreadsheet model with Forecasts and Purchase plans built on your actual data. What to order, how much, and when. You own the file, your team runs it, updates are easy 2) An api connected google sheets model wired into your systems inside Google Sheets. Live schedule data pulls, no manual work required your next 12 months of forecasts and orders recalculate every week. Under an hour a week to manage. 3) An Ai Native ERP. I already have the shell, the modules, and the architecture. I customize it for your company and do the full onboarding. It has prebuilt agents that will run the majority of the work for you, and can integrate into any system. Some of the features: -Autonomous demand forecasting and purchase order planning by SKU, warehouse, and sales channel. -Raw material requirements planning and production scheduling aligned to demand and capacity. -End-to-end lot traceability for food and beverage brands, including shelf-life and expiry control. -Multi-warehouse inventory optimization with replenishment rules, safety stock targets, and stock visibility. -Connected order-to-cash operations across pricing, sales orders, fulfillment, shipping, and returns. -Supplier and procurement management with landed-cost tracking, performance reporting, and AI-assisted decisions. I am also available as a Fractional Supply Chain Manager or Director to run your supply chain and build custom software for your business to help you both automate and scale. Message me and I'll be happy to show you a demo of any of the 3 or talk about building a custom solution for you from scratch.

🏆 Top Rated Plus Supply Chain Consultant (Among Top 3% on Upwork) 🏆 Terrific Upwork History with 5000+ Hours & Counting 🏆 90 + Completed Projects with 5 Star reviews on Upwork and Counting Consultant in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Logistics, Sourcing, Supply Chain Modeling, EDI, Warehousing, etc - Top Rated Plus (within a 6 month Timeframe) Team Experience 10 - 40 years each with Fortune 500 companies in the US, small/large production, factories and e-commerce stores. Our team's extensive supply chain experience is combined over 75 years+. We bring value when we work with company's from due to our experience with major ecommerce companies (FashionNova, largest supplier for towels to Walmart and Target, Intel), many small ecommerce companies (one of which below is is on track to do $80M+ annual - we saved this company $200K + in about couple months on their annual shipping costs based on their high volume). Also, we have experience working with Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 (Caterpillar, Honeywell, midsize printing company in Chicago grossing $25M a year). Rates are dependent after interview and discussion of specific project. - Owner of Investa Garden (Management Consulting Agency specialized in Supply Chain, Operations, EDI Development (CargoWise, etc), ERP Solutions and CMO Solutions): Based in Chicago with a global setup. - We build/manage Digital Supply Chains/Logistics infrastructure for e-Commerce companies whether you are starting out or at a point in the business where you would like a consulting team to take over current operations. Then, you are able to focus more on product design, sales, marketing or even retire. This is why we offer Management Consulting services because Supply Chain does not only affect operations but all parts of a business. We specialize in setting up Quality department, Quality Management Systems, Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Supplier Quality Audits. My business partner has over 35+ years in Quality Assurance, Auditing, QMS for Medical Devices / Chemical Companies Pharma companies (such as DuPont Chemical, Exxon, Pfizer, Dow Chemicals, Baxter, etc). Has been in this space since the 90s (36 years working for Fortune 100/500 companies and 18 years of pre & continuous education) - Experienced supply chain professional with a strong record of cross-functional, data-driven results and exceeding goals - 10 + years of Inventory & Vendor Management Experience in Entrepreneurial and Corporate Settings - Data-Driven financial and market research & analysis, regularly prepared and communicated to Senior Management - 9 + years of diverse B2B & Consumer Sales experience - US-Based I am a skilled supply chain / operations management consultant with the ability to help improve small-medium sized businesses with their supply chain needs, including the digital transformation of manual reporting, assessment and set up of database needs, ERP based analysis of inventory, process simplification of cycle counts, warehouse stocking recommendations and customer/client relationship improvements. I also hold a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Supply Chain Management from Loyola University, Chicago (Top 20 Schools for Supply Chain Management undergraduate program in the US) I can support long and short-term contract positions, remote-based projects, onsite (Chicago area) assessments and can provide a customizable consulting engagement to meet your supply chain needs. Key supply chain performance skills include: - Inventory & Vendor Management Experience with small-medium sized business environments - Supply chain process improvements including digital transformation, implementing reporting tools and developing metrics and analytics to drive cost reductions, labor improvements, and supply chain risk mitigation - Inventory performance analytics, including cycle counting processes and inventory obsolescence management - Experience with vendor negotiations and operational performance for the supplier relationships - Data-Driven financial and market research & analysis - Diverse B2B & consumer sales experience - Trilingual: English (primary), Hindi, & Urdu - Operational efficiencies improvements including creating databases and Excel-based reports to assist production and sales - Microsoft Excel (expert report and data management) - ERP Systems (EPICOR Vantage) - NAFTA / USMCA (North American Free Trade Agreement) code applications - CMO for Freight Forwarders / Trucking Companies - Utilization of ERP system to assess inventory availability - Ability to create actionable ERP data extracts to resolve customer issues or improve daily operations - Warehouse process improvements for inventory accuracy metrics, including cycle counts - Implementation of product coding standards to improve NAFTA trade compliance Experience in starting and running E-Commerce Businesses from A-Z. Built full supply chain models in E-Commerce business.