"We looked for a partner who understood our particular needs and our mode of manufacturing, and found NorthFind Management. Their deep technical capability paired with many examples of successful implementations in businesses like ours made them a natural choice."
— Rafael Pons, Chief Manufacturing Officer at Trecora Resources
Trecora Chemical provides custom processing services to customers. This creates a unique manufacturing environment, being continuous and batch based, and highly project based. Traditional S&OP approaches have not worked.
We looked for a partner who understood our particular needs and our mode of manufacturing, and found NorthFind Management. Their deep technical capability paired with many examples of successful implementations in businesses like ours made them a natural choice. They also provided prioritized solutions tailored to our needs that would provide the biggest “bang for the buck” versus trying to sell us expensive and complex software solutions.
If you want a partner that will provide the easiest tailored solutions that deliver value, I would recommend working with NorthFind Management.
"Has your global supply chain become difficult to manage? NorthFind identified some fantastic quick wins for us to partner on with a goal to unlock our supply chain and enable the growth of our business for the future."
— Bryan Hoffman, VP Operations, Nutiva
Has your global supply chain become difficult to manage?Is your team constantly reacting to the endless delays and complexities in today’s world?Well, here Nutiva, we are having these challenges. NorthFind recently came on-site to do a one-week assessment on our current state supply chain model. NorthFind identified some fantastic quick wins for us to partner on with a goal to unlock our supply chain and enable the growth of our business for the future. It may not come as a surprise, but Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a key unlock. With a winning playbook and plan of action, the Nutiva team is excited to embark on this journey of building a world class IBP process.People, Process, and Tools are the pillars of a strong IBP process. NorthFind’s best-in-class boot camps will help educate our staff and provide insights for facilitation of IBP. Coupled with clear roles and responsibilities for each contributing member of the process, IBP will unlock real savings and efficiencies in our Supply Chain. Finally, NorthFind will work with our team to identify KPIs and Dashboards that will bring real-time visibility to the health of our network.NorthFind provides a great catalyst to re-energizing your supply chain. Furthermore, when they leave at the end of the day, they have prepared your team with the knowledge and tools to be effective, independently!
"We have prioritized Supply Chain transformation, and one of the core foundations of our plan is the implementation of an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, and to ensure its rapid adoption and success, we turned to NorthFind Management to provide customized and highly engaging training to our team to expand our capabilities."
— Andre Teixeira, VP of Global Supply Chain at Jamieson Wellness
At Jamieson Wellness, we constantly work to exceed our partner’s and customers’ expectations by providing the best service in a rapidly changing landscape. We have prioritized Supply Chain transformation, and one of the core foundations of our plan is the implementation of an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, and to ensure its rapid adoption and success, we turned to NorthFind Management to provide customized and highly engaging training to our team to expand our capabilities. NorthFind’s award-winning team and highly personal approach made them a natural choice and a partner we’re proud to work with.
"He helped my team and I to sell "up" the importance of metrics for S&OP to drive action oriented steps and the results we were seeking. He helped us to crawl, walk, run as we put together a Global Planning organization..."
— Karon Evanoff, Vice President - Global Supply Chain at QSC
Where do I begin to extol the value of working with Jonathon? I started working with him somewhere around 2013 I believe. At that time, we were re-vamping an internal S&OP process at the company I was working at. Growth was skyrocketing, but purchasing was doing all the forecasting – yes that was our process – look back and do the same with some adder of growth. We engaged with NorthFind and working with Jonathon and his team allowed us to provide the organization with an education of what S&OP/SIOP truly was vs the approach which as the time was “Just go place the order….” Using data analytics to set and drive Service Levels was eye-opening for our leadership teams globally.
Was there an initial push back? Of course, because it meant ownership needed to be taken in areas outside of the supply chain. Jonathon enabled me and my organization to present what a truly GLOBAL Planning organization required, looked like and how it should perform.
While every industry/company has nuances, basics are still applicable, measurable and governable. He helped my team and I to sell “up” the importance of metrics for S&OP to drive action oriented steps and the results we were seeking. He helped us to crawl, walk, run as we put together a Global Planning organization despite the pushback we received from the very people who were responsible for the numbers against which we needed to execute. Eventually, you can’t argue with data, and this resulted in the enterprise finally accepting change was required. He is so in the forefront of what’s happening in this area.
As a result, he continues to be a key part of my network when seeking new solutioning requirements in terms of process and technologies. I am always picking his brain to make sure I’m current and not stagnant. I am so happy to have him in my network of providers and educators. I have continued to engage and use Jonathon’s expertise and team as I moved to my next opportunity. I plan on continuing to keep Jonathon as a close advisor and now friend as long as he is working in the space.
"Jonathan is a true expert who, as a consultant, has a gifted ability to prescribe S&OP and supply chain solutions that actually work."
— Sanjiv Sharma, Director, Global Planning at Molex
Jonathan is a true expert who, as a consultant, has a gifted ability to prescribe S&OP and supply chain solutions that actually work. Having worked with Jonathan for 6+ months, I know he has actually been there, done that in various capacities. (Unlike big name consultants who may not have actually solved real issues hands on). Jonathan is also extremely intelligent who has a knack for quickly diagnosing issues. I am extremely pleased with the work he completed at Molex, as are my other colleagues at Molex.
The end result is that our forecast accuracy is currently at an excellent level in some divisions. It will be a true privilege and honour for anyone in supply chain/S&OP to work with Jonathan.
"All the critical systems of a successful S&OP organization were integrated into the functional roles of our staff, who have now become owners of the process."
— Mark Golden, CEO & Co-Founder at Golden Artist Colors Inc.
All the critical systems of a successful S&OP organization were integrated into the functional roles of our staff, who have now become owners of the process. All the new tools have us poised to reach another level of growth. I am confident that none of this would have been possible without the tools, training, guidance and support provided by the NorthFind team.