Know what will restrict the next ramp before it becomes the next crisis.

The exact module set is confirmed during scoping. The working diagnostic covers:

• supplier continuity and recovery;
• demand, material, and operational planning;
• purchasing controls and approval flow;
• inventory visibility and exception management;
• item, BOM, supplier, lead-time, and related master data;
• ERP/MRP and supporting workflow effectiveness;
• governance, decision rights, and escalation;
• organization, capacity, and operating cadence;
• KPI definitions and data confidence.

• approximately three weeks;
• one business unit and one primary site;
• bounded executive and functional interviews;
• bounded data request and representative samples;
• current-state process and responsibility mapping;
• evidence-confidence and limitation tracking;
• executive findings, roadmap, architecture, and next-step options.

The Assessment is intentionally bounded. Additional facilities, suppliers, transaction testing, forensic work, certification activity, or implementation require a separate scope and approval.

• an executive sponsor and operational coordinator;
• access to agreed participants;
• timely, approved, minimum necessary evidence;
• disclosure of known data limitations and contradictions;
• availability for findings challenge and decision-making;
• adherence to the approved confidentiality and data boundary;
• ownership of agreed corrective actions after the readout.

• executive risk and opportunity summary;
• current-state process and responsibility maps;
• supply-chain maturity and risk baseline;
• supplier continuity and recovery assessment;
• planning, purchasing, inventory, data, and systems findings;
• KPI baseline and data-confidence rating;
• prioritized 90-day roadmap;
• 12-to-24-month operating and technology architecture;
• implementation options and next-step decision.

Every consequential finding should identify its evidence, confidence, owner, timing, dependency, risk, and expected operating result.

The Assessment does not guarantee:

• a specific financial result;
• complete detection of every risk;
• data accuracy beyond the evidence available;
• legal or regulatory compliance;
• supplier performance or recovery;
• ERP selection or implementation;
• automatic readiness for a 90-Day Build or Fractional Office.

It is an evidence-based decision instrument, not an audit, certification, legal opinion, or outcome guarantee.

1. Scope and start gate — confirm the decision, boundary, participants, data, responsibilities, and acceptance conditions.
2. Executive decision frame — establish the trigger, consequence, timing, economics, and decisions the Assessment must support.
3. Interviews and current-state mapping — document how work, information, ownership, and escalation operate today.
4. Module analysis — test supplier, planning, purchasing, inventory, data, systems, governance, and organization controls.
5. Evidence challenge — identify contradictions, confidence limits, and missing information.
6. Executive findings and roadmap — prioritize the most consequential constraints and required decisions.
7. Readout and successor decision — correct factual errors, confirm limitations, accept the deliverable, and determine whether any next step is justified.

The exact sequence and effort are confirmed during scoping and remain within the agreed Assessment boundary.

A successor may be:

• internal execution;
• a bounded 90-Day Build;
• a Fractional Supply Continuity Office;
• another specialist or provider;
• no further engagement.

The next step is determined from evidence, scope, capacity, data, risk, and commercial fit. It is never automatic.