Supply chain advisory — Canada & United States

Find the margin
your supply chain
is losing.

Senior supply chain expertise, without the full-time hire.

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Lower landed cost

Buy better, not just cheaper

Free up cash

Less capital trapped in stock

Fewer surprises

Suppliers you can rely on

Faster flow

Shorter lead times end to end

Good supply chain thinking shouldn't be a privilege of scale.

Senior expertise, scoped for businesses that can't hire it full time.

Four areas, one connected chain

Most logistics problems started upstream — in how a supplier was chosen or how stock was planned.

Procurement & sourcing

Pay less for the same goods

  • Sustainable and responsible procurement
  • Total landed cost modelling
  • Contract and Incoterms review
  • Category strategy and consolidation

Supplier vetting & risk

Fewer failures, fewer fire drills

  • Supplier qualification frameworks
  • Capacity and financial stability checks
  • Ethical and labour standards review
  • Dual sourcing and concentration risk

Inventory management

Cash back out of the warehouse

  • Stock right-sizing and safety stock policy
  • Forecasting and replenishment
  • SKU rationalisation, less obsolescence
  • Accuracy, layout and flow

Logistics & trade

Goods arrive faster and cheaper

  • Carrier strategy and rate benchmarking
  • North American network and warehouse footprint
  • Cross-border customs and trade compliance
  • Freight invoice audit and recovery

Three ways in

Scoped by how deep the problem runs — not by how large your business is.

Diagnostic

Fixed scope · fixed fee

A structured review of your operation, ending in a written report and a ranked roadmap.

You know exactly where the money is going

Fractional advisory

Ongoing · monthly

Senior supply chain capacity on call. Effectively a part-time supply chain director.

Expertise on hand without the headcount

The method, before the outcome

North Axis is a new practice. Judge the thinking before you commit to anything.

01

Map the real chain

Supplier to customer — including the workarounds nobody documented.

02

Find the leaks

Contract terms, safety stock, obsolescence, freight, duty. Rarely where you'd assume.

03

Rank by return

Every recommendation gets an honest impact and effort estimate. You choose.

04

Stay through it

I work alongside your team during rollout, measured against the agreed number.

Who you'll work with

No account managers, no junior analysts. The person who scopes your engagement does the work.

My background spans retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, and international logistics across Canada, the UAE, Oman and India — so when you're sourcing from Asia or the Gulf, I've sat on the other side of that container. Substantial import volume handled, with a clean customs compliance record.

North Axis works with businesses across Canada and the United States, and is a registered British Columbia company.

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