Operationally elevating your consumer goods business.

Maximize your profit while building a healthy, sustainable business.

THE POWER OF OPERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Crafting a remarkable product, building a thriving company, and consistently generating sales – your success story is truly inspiring, and we recognize the incredible journey you've undertaken. But now you want to optimize for profitability and go from processing 100 orders a day to shipping 1,000,000 orders a day.  As you scale and reach new heights, operational excellence becomes crucial. To ascend to that next level, you require more than just growth; you need a finely tuned operational machine. We understand the challenges you face in processing more orders, enhancing quality, optimizing the supply chain and reducing costs, and we acknowledge that bringing in a full-time COO or executive team can be a hefty investment. 

Operationally Up steps in, turning your frustrating challenges into operational opportunities that have lasting results on your bottom line.

Through operational transformation services, we offer the skill and experience of a seasoned operations executive but at a fraction of the cost of a full time COO making it perfect for your start-up or growing business.  We work along side you and with your team to define and accomplish objectives turning these opportunities into systems that allow you to operate at maximum efficiency.

BE ONE OF OUR SUCCESS STORIES

Our successes have included some staggering numbers.

  •  Built an international manufacturing and supply chain operation to support a 2,000% sales growth in under 4 ½ years.  

  •  Improved production efficiency resulting in a 47% improvement of volume output per hour while also increasing volume per labor dollar by 245% using automation. 

  •  Designed new co-manufacture RFQ process resulting in the onboarding of a new vendor that saved an average of 21% COGS and reduced lead time by 6%. 

  • Leveraged a new inventory system to successfully reduce costs by 15% and eliminate expedited shipping. 

  • Managed the launch of a new white label product operations that saw over $3M in revenue  it's first year.

  •  Cut order processing time by 70% from replacing manual order manipulation with an automated, integrated ticket printing and shipping label solution. 

  •  Implemented the strategies needed to achieve a 20% YoY growth for the past three years with a company profitability increase of 3% in the first 12 months of tenure (achieved using aggressive cost cutting and by refocusing product offerings). 

  •  Overhauled HR department to save over $500,000 in annual expenses while increase state and federal compliance and nurturing corporate culture.

Co-manufacturing and Manufacturing

With expertise in lean manufacturing across a spectrum of consumer goods, Operationally Up excels in building systems for small and growing companies to optimize:

  • Production planning

  • Inventory management

  • Lean production practices

  • Co-manufacturing partnerships

  • Production automation

PROBLEMS WE SOLVE

Supply Chain and Distribution

Boasting extensive experience in end-to-end supply chain management, Operationally Up can take you from 100 orders to 1M orders by establishing and/or refining:

  • Procurement processes

  • Transportation and logistics

  • Omni-channel distribution

  • DTC and e-commerce order processing and shipping

  • 3PL partners

Business Planning and KPIs

With a proven track record in supporting start-ups and growing businesses, Operationally Up brings extensive experience to the table in developing strategic plans that pave the way for sustainable success.  We can help create:

  • Company business plans

  • Trackable KPIs 

  • Annual Budgets

  • COGS visibility

  • ERP optimization

  • Operational automation

Can we help?

Bring an immediate operational questions or opportunity to a free 30 min consultation and we can send you in the right direction.

Podcast

Coming Soon!!!

We are thrilled to share that a Moving Operationally Up podcast is currently in the works. The podcast will feature topics and guest speakers sharing insight and tips on everything and anything start up and growing businesses need to know. These topics are designed by leaders with decades of knowledge who have fallen in all the traps and learned the hard way. Now, they are excited to share with you so you can leap ahead.

Our Successes

  • “She is very adept at balancing the demands of operational KPI's (e.g. inventory efficiency, streamlining production and fulfillment, etc.) with the sometimes contrary requirements for meeting sales and customer satisfaction KPIs. In the face of chaos, Erica is a positive, energetic, collaborative, and solution-focused Ops leader. Highly recommend."

    Consumer Fertilizer Manufacture

  • “Erica is a fantastic business-minded individual, who is equally smart and down to earth. She brings a fresh energy to the team that is infectious and motivating. Her expertise is invaluable, along with her personality! If you are looking for someone savvy and with a good work culture, look no further! "

    Consumer Goods Manufacture

  • “Working with Erica was an absolute delight. She is super determined and approaches challenges with positivity. She came in and initiated changes that need to be changed and truly did what was needed, with a smile on her face. Erica goes above and beyond and I highly recommend her!"

    Global Manufacture

  • "Erica’s acumen on business strategy for growing consumer-goods businesses is excellent and in depth. She has experience within strategy and vendor management for co-manufactures that is extremely beneficial. Additionally, her lean operations process development helped us save money and streamline processes."

    Apparel Consumer Goods

MEET OUR PRINCIPAL FCOO

Erica Dill

As a fellow entrepreneur with extensive experience in consumer goods supply chain and manufacturing, she deeply understands the potential and opportunities that await you and your business.  She has helped entrepreneurs and CEOs do everything from build their first business plan and budget all the way to building out their international manufacturing operations that supported a 2000% sales growth.  

Enabling your vision is her passion.

How can we help?

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