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This is where TorqueFoundry Advisory publishes what actually holds up on the shopfloor and at the tender desk: procurement strategy, freight and logistics digitization, AI applied to real operations, and the organizational design that makes any of it stick. Every piece is drawn from live engagements, not theory, spanning procurement negotiations, freight tenders, ERP migrations, and headcount decisions. If you lead manufacturing or supply chain operations and want fewer slides and more signal, this is the feed.
How the SME mid-market actually connects, tracks, and communicates. A research note written from the demand side: 18 years operating supply chains at IKEA and Volvo, now advising industrial mid-market firms on execution.
11 min read • Jun 9, 2026
The lowest ocean freight rate wins the tender and loses the year. Why landed cost, not the card rate, is the only number that still matters in December.
7 min read • Jun 8, 2026
Headcount cuts feel decisive but routinely destroy more value than they recover; here is why operational alternatives consistently outperform layoffs.
7 min read • May 28, 2026
Most procurement functions are built for stable environments that no longer exist. Integrating Hoshin Kanri, category management, agile sprints, and AI agents closes the loop between strategy and execution.
6 min read • May 14, 2026
A practitioner who has managed global logistics through crises explains why no single AI model can handle real-world operational complexity, and how building a coordinated team of specialist agents, tested against live financial markets, unlocks real-time decision-making that compounds over time.
9 min read • Apr 30, 2026
Moonshot mandates produce compliance theater; coaching produces compounding capability. Here is why the leader's real job in the AI era is designing a system where good ideas surface fast and bad ones fail safely.
6 min read • Apr 16, 2026
Geopolitical tension, supply disruptions, and sustainability mandates have made cost-only procurement obsolete. This playbook shows how winning teams score trade-offs across all three dimensions and execute them with disciplined rigor.
7 min read • Apr 2, 2026
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