FOUNDER-LED STRATEGIC SOURCING ADVISORY
ReadyProducts advises owners and product-company leaders on supplier strategy, negotiation, cost, risk, and execution—and steps in directly when the situation requires it.
THREE WAYS TO CREATE VALUE
Senior judgment, shared with you, developed in your team, or applied directly to the work. Each engagement starts with the business decision.
Bring an experienced operator into the decisions that shape your supplier base, cost structure, and production strategy.
Explore advisory & leadershipWhat should we do, and what are we trading off?
Strengthen the judgment inside your business. Prepare leaders and teams to negotiate, challenge assumptions, and make better supplier decisions.
Explore executive & team coachingHow do we equip our people to handle this well?
When the recommendation needs hands-on follow-through, I can help move the work forward against a defined business objective.
Explore execution supportWhat needs to happen to make the decision work?
FOR LEADERS OF PRODUCT COMPANIES
Your business has outgrown informal sourcing. A supplier relationship is under strain. Or the next move will affect margin, quality, and continuity for years.
I work with owners, CEOs, COOs, and their teams facing cost pressure, negotiations, supplier concentration, tariffs, production transitions, and international complexity.
Often, the need is experienced outside judgment or fractional leadership without another full-time executive.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE ADVICE
The person advising you is the person who has evaluated factories, negotiated supplier agreements, and worked through production problems in the field.
I bring 2 decades of sourcing and consumer-products operating experience to the conversation. I can help you assess the options, prepare your people, and stay involved when the decision needs hands-on execution.
I keep the practice selective so I can stay close to each client’s priorities.
Meet PatrickSELECTED CLIENT DECISIONS
Completed projects led by Patrick. Client identities and commercially sensitive details remain confidential.
01 / SUPPLIER CONCENTRATION
A consumer-product brand depended on one supplier, concentrating production risk in a single relationship. Patrick evaluated alternate manufacturers and established a qualification path before the next production cycle. The decision depended on whether alternatives could actually support the work.
Three qualified manufacturing sources reduced single-supplier exposure.
02 / COST & NEGOTIATION
An established operator faced rising costs without a clear view of where margin was being lost. Patrick separated product pricing, payment terms, minimum orders, duty exposure, and freight assumptions. That gave supplier discussions a factual commercial basis.
Identified landed-cost and supplier-term improvement opportunities.
03 / PRODUCTION TRANSITION
A product business needed to evaluate a move to another manufacturing region without introducing avoidable quality or timing risk. Factory comparison, qualification checks, sample alignment, and transition planning came before committing production volume.
An alternate-region manufacturer was qualified before the production transition.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
There is no required sequence of services. The level of involvement follows the decision, your team’s capabilities, and the work ahead.
Discuss what is at stake and whether my experience fits the situation.
An assessment, advisory session, or coaching engagement with an agreed scope.
Develop the recommendation and provide selective support to carry it forward.
Fractional advisory or leadership alongside your team as priorities evolve.
BEFORE WE TALK
Yes. An engagement can focus on strategy, cost and margin, a negotiation, a supplier proposal, team coaching, or fractional leadership. Factory sourcing is one capability within a broader advisory practice.
We work on real commercial situations: preparing a negotiation, reviewing a proposal, rehearsing a difficult supplier conversation, or debriefing what happened. The purpose is to develop judgment and stronger sourcing discipline inside your business.
No. It is one defined advisory engagement. Depending on your needs, the first piece of work may instead be an advisory session, coaching, a strategic project, or fractional leadership.
Yes. It includes a written assessment, priority findings, and corrective recommendations. Patrick walks you through the options and the prioritized action plan. Scope, fee, and timing are agreed before work begins.
Owners, CEOs, COOs, and teams at operating product companies facing consequential supplier decisions. The work is most useful when the decision involves commercial tradeoffs, supplier risk, or organizational capability beyond obtaining a quote.
We discuss your situation, what is at stake, and whether Patrick’s experience fits the need. The introductory conversation is 45 minutes and carries no fee or obligation to start an engagement.
A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK
Tell me what is changing, what is at stake, and where you need an experienced perspective.
Bring the question you need another experienced set of eyes on.
Patrick MaiohoFounder, ReadyProducts