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Operations Improvement
Process mapping, bottleneck analysis and new routines for plants, warehouses and service teams.
Shorter lead times and less rework.
Surge Advisory Partners
When growth outpaces your systems, we help you catch up.
Surge Advisory Partners advises growing companies in the Upper Midwest on operations, pricing and organization. We spend time with your teams, find what is straining and help you fix it.
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Service areas
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Named contact on every account
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Pricing and Margin
Price-setting, discounting rules and margin review by customer and product.
Margins you can explain.
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Organization Design
Roles, spans of control and decision rights after a period of fast growth.
Clear ownership of decisions.
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Growth Strategy
Market selection, channel choice and a plan for the next three years.
A plan the board can follow.
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Performance Management
Targets, dashboards and a weekly operating review.
Problems seen in days, not quarters.
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Change Support
Communication, training and follow-up for a major change.
Changes that last past the first month.
Less theory, more time with your people.
Our consultants read your reports, sit with your teams and watch the work. Every recommendation has an owner, a date and the number it should move.
Name an owner
Every recommendation has one person and one date.
Work beside the team
We spend time where the work happens.
Measure the result
Each project has a number it should move.
Leave on schedule
We plan our exit from day one.
Client feedback
What clients say
“They asked to watch a shift before touching the data. That is why their recommendations worked.”
Representative client feedback - chief operating officer at a regional manufacturer
“Our discount rules were something nobody had written down. Surge wrote them down and our margin improved.”
Representative client feedback - CFO of a distribution company
“Tariq was in the room when we told staff about the new structure. That mattered.”
Representative client feedback - president of a healthcare services group