Operations Consulting Services We use industry best practices and leading technology to create tailored solutions for your organization Protiviti’s Supply Chain and Operations Consulting experts work closely with key stakeholders to integrate industry best practices and tailor business solutions to help:Reduce operating costsIncrease productivity and service, and Reduce the capital required to support business goals and objectivesWe work with leading technology providers to bring your organization the best solution to fit your individual needs. Operations Services Pro Briefcase Supply Chain Operations & Performance At Protiviti, we help organizations envision and run supply chain networks that drive change, align with their strategies, and make a positive impact on society. The supply chain of the future is a complete reimagining of how we've done things in the past. Pro Building office Supply Chain Innovation Protiviti’s supply chain consulting experts work closely with key stakeholders to integrate industry best practices and tailored business solutions to meet the organization’s needs. Pro Document Consent Sourcing & Procurement Transformation Successful sourcing and procurement must address today’s needs with the foresight to plan for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities. Our team excels at helping organizations understand current opportunities while looking ahead to understand what is coming next. Pro Document Files Sustainable Operations We help our clients to identify and address sustainability risks embedded within their operational footprint and value chains, thereby positioning them competitively into the future. Effectively and efficiently respond to ever-changing business landscape Our Approach Managing the inherent risks of people, processes, and technology in relation to day-to-day business operations has become increasingly complex. Overly manual, reactive, and siloed operational methodologies of old are unsustainable and cannot continue. We help organizations implement operational risk capabilities that are agile and flexible in order to effectively and efficiently respond to the ever-changing environment. Intelligent Warehouse and Distribution: Increasing customer demands, supply chain disruptions, and changing marketplaces require organizations to act quickly while maintaining cost competitiveness. Protiviti helps organizations design and implement more automation and robotics into their supply chain. Always on Field Services: Provide timely installation, maintenance, and service of your equipment without negatively affecting your organization with Always on Field Services. Utilizing this technology, Protiviti helps organizations manage costs and ensure proactive field servicing by leveraging machine learning, AI, and IoT. Supplier Risk Management: Protiviti helps build deep supply chain resilience capabilities by focusing on the greatest risk to any organization—vendor risk exposure. Our experts in vendor risk management help organizations manage and monitor potential supply and distribution disruptions. Quality: Preventing defects from reaching your customers is critical to maintaining both profitability and customer satisfaction. Protiviti helps develop processes to identify and manage quality risks, using technology to identify, track, and resolve quality issues. Agile Factories: Market environments can change quickly, and impacts in one part of the supply chain can reverberate across the whole. We help manufacturers put into place flexible systems and processes that allow for real-time reactions to changes and shocks to the marketplace. Effectively and efficiently respond to ever-changing business landscape Leadership David Petrucci David has 30 years of operational improvement and innovation experience working across industry, technology and consulting organizations. His specialty is developing new business and organizational models enabled by the intersection of business & technology. ... Learn More Chris Monk Chris is one of the leaders of the Global Supply Chain & Operations practice and the leader of Protiviti’s Sourcing and Procurement offering. With over twenty years’ experience, Chris has a proven track record of analyzing, improving, and transforming organizations ... Learn More John F Weber John has had over 20 years of operations experience across the entire Supply Chain in a wide range of industries. He has experience with companies of all sizes from $10m to $70b in the United States and Europe. John has had success in both developing ... Learn More Robert Giacobbe Robert Giacobbe is the lead for Protiviti’s Supply Chain Operations & Performance (O&P) team. Robert has a 31-year history of working in supply chain consulting across a mix of strategy, management consulting and technology. He’s worked across functions such as ... Learn More Lucas Manganaro Lucas Manganaro is a Managing Director at Protiviti and leads the Supply Innovation Practice. Throughout his 20+ year career, Lucas has held multiple supply chain and procurement leadership roles focused on transforming business processes and leveraging technology to ... Learn More Radhika Subramanian Radhika has over 20 years of experience in operationalizing technology and digital transformations across industry, academia, start-ups, technology and consulting organizations. Her specialty is value realization at the intersection of business, technology, and emerging ... 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