Your market strategy is sound.Your operations have to deliver it.
EBD Advisory matures planning, sourcing, and supply as one system, turning your plan into lower cost and supply that holds as you grow.
Founded by Teddy Bourgeois, who spent fifteen years as a leader of the $6.4B supply chain behind a national QSR network.
Common places the plan breaks down
Disconnected
Planning
Commercial and supply teams plan from different numbers, so every forecast turns into a negotiation.
Reactive
Firefighting
The week goes to fixing problems the organization should have seen coming.
Reduced
Agility
Decisions that used to be quick now stall, and the data you have is hard to turn into action.
Margin
Erosion
The profitability of your business has declined, and raising prices only goes so far.
Operations decide whether the commercial plan succeeds
These four areas move together. Work them together and a gain holds instead of resurfacing as a new problem somewhere else.
Planning & Supply Resilience
Most companies run S&OP as a meeting that ends without a decision. EBD Advisory builds the demand planning, supply planning, and governance that put the business on one set of numbers and position supply to hold when volatility hits.
Sourcing & Procurement
Your real cost drivers are buried under finished-product pricing. EBD Advisory builds the should-cost, category, and negotiation strategy that takes cost out of what you buy and how it gets used, without putting supply or quality at risk.
Operational Efficiency
Busy teams, but much of the motion is rework. EBD Advisory builds the operating model that runs the day to day: clear decision rights, documented process, and cadence, so your people spend less time firefighting and more on the work that improves the operation.
Digital & AI
AI earns its place where it sharpens a real decision. EBD Advisory builds the dashboards and early-warning signals that catch problems while they are still small, and separates the AI use cases with real operational value from the ones that only add noise.
The operating experience behind the method
Engagements draw on the founder's leadership across the supply chain networks for Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut): sourcing strategy across 23 international markets, cost-savings programs, and orchestrating a domestic network of over 300 supplier partners and 40 distribution centers supporting 16,000+ restaurants.
Finance-attested recurring savings that were implemented over 18 months of a margin-improvement program spanning strategic sourcing, should-cost modeling, SKU and pack-size optimization, and freight efficiency.
Implemented and scaled an enterprise planning platform, moving the organization to exception-based planning, which unlocked the bandwidth to oversee more SKUs.
End-to-end network monitoring, inventory positioning, and redundancy strategies, run in collaboration with procurement, kept Taco Bell supplied through COVID-19's supply shocks and demand volatility.
We diagnose it with your team. Then we build it together, and stay until it's yours.
Most firms hand over a diagnosis and a deck. EBD Advisory digs to the root cause, designs the fix with your people, and builds it into the operation alongside them. The team learns the new way of working and sees the early wins, so it holds after we step back and the capability is theirs.
"Teddy replaced the typical industry volatility with a proactive, mature S&OP process, giving our manufacturing teams the long-term visibility we needed to plan and execute effectively. He is a rare leader who understands what it takes for suppliers to be successful in supporting their clients."
"Teddy combines strategic vision with financial acumen. His leadership was critical in empowering the organization to build resilient frameworks that protected supply and improved margins."
Find the gap between your plan and your operations. Then close it.
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