Strategy. Execution. Transformation.
Pursuing Excellence helps distribution, supply chain, logistics, and repair operations cut cost, raise inventory accuracy, recover service, and scale. You get a senior operator who has run the operation and directed the budget, not a theorist with a template.
Directed a $230M operating budget, run five distribution centers, converted a 3PL to in house, and implemented Manhattan Active WMS. We start from experience, not a framework.
Recommendations arrive priced and sequenced. You will know what each change is worth to cost, service, and inventory accuracy before you commit to it.
We install the controls, KPIs, SOPs, and leadership cadence that keep improvements alive after we leave. Transformation that reverts was theater.
A two to three week structured review across people, process, systems, governance, and metrics. Symptoms separated from root causes, every fix priced and prioritized.
Senior operating leadership, embedded part time and accountable to defined outcomes. Executive experience without the full time executive cost.
Cycle count programs, inventory governance, SOP development, receiving to shipping controls, and WMS stabilization that raise accuracy and service together.
RMA, quarantine, staging, QA, and deployment controls for repair and reverse logistics operations, including customer owned and vendor owned inventory.
Service recovery after consolidations, moves, or system cutovers. Stabilize first, then rebuild the operating system that prevents the next fire.
Executive coaching, frontline leader cohorts, KPI dashboards, SOPs, and operating rhythm design. Leadership development anchored to operational metrics, taught by an operator. Explore the leadership practice →
Warren Stout is a senior supply chain and operations executive with more than 25 years leading distribution, fulfillment, transportation, manufacturing, and reverse logistics. He has directed a $230M operating budget supporting $1.4B in revenue, leading roughly 700 people across five distribution centers and 3.2 million square feet.
His record includes converting a major distribution center from third party logistics to in house operations in under six months, producing roughly $8M in annual savings and an 11 percent improvement in customer experience. He has renegotiated national parcel and freight agreements for multimillion dollar annual savings, reduced transportation cost by roughly 14 percent, and implemented Manhattan Active WMS with enterprise change management across large teams.
He holds an Executive MBA from the University of East London, completed through Ducere Global Business School. His leadership model, truth and grace, pairs accountability with empathy and systems thinking with execution. It is the foundation of how he develops leaders, from the warehouse floor to the executive table.
VP roles at Arhaus and Ledge Lounger · Six Sigma Black Belt · Manhattan Active WMS implementation · $2.6M in carrier savings · 3PL to in-house conversion in under six months · Author of the forthcoming leadership book When It's On You
Pursuing Excellence is a supply chain and operations consulting firm in Houston, Texas. We improve distribution, inventory, transportation, and repair operations, reduce operating cost, build KPIs and SOPs, develop operations leaders, and provide fractional VP of Operations leadership.
Yes. Supply chain is core to the work. We improve distribution, inventory, transportation, procurement, and reverse logistics, from network and footprint decisions through day to day execution, and we tie every change to cost, service, and inventory accuracy.
A supply chain and operations consultant diagnoses where a company loses margin, service, and inventory accuracy across distribution, transportation, inventory, and repair operations, then fixes the root causes and installs the controls, KPIs, and leadership cadence that make the gains hold. The work ties directly to cost, service levels, and the P&L.
Hire a fractional VP of Operations when operations have outgrown the founder or current leader, when service or cost is slipping, or when you need senior operating experience without the cost of a full time executive. The leader embeds part time and is accountable to defined outcomes.
An operations assessment is a short, structured review of your operation across people, process, systems, governance, and metrics. It separates symptoms from root causes and produces a prioritized plan with the dollar value of each fix. We deliver it in two to three weeks.
Inventory accuracy improves through disciplined cycle counting, clear ownership, root cause analysis of adjustments, accurate system setup, and controls at receiving, putaway, and shipping. Most operations reach measurable improvement within 30 to 90 days under a governed program.
Engagements are scoped to outcomes. A fixed fee operations assessment is the common entry point. Fractional and interim leadership is typically a monthly retainer or day rate, and improvement or turnaround projects are scoped to the work. Fees are tied to measurable impact on cost, service, and inventory accuracy.
Yes. We support private equity firms and their portfolio companies with operational due diligence before close and value creation programs after, including network design, systems stabilization, inventory governance, and cost reduction.
Yes. Pursuing Excellence provides executive coaching for operations leaders, frontline leader cohorts for supervisors and operations managers, and leadership assessment for private equity portfolio companies. Every engagement is anchored to operational metrics such as safety, service, cost, inventory accuracy, and turnover, and delivered by a senior operator rather than a facilitator.
Pursuing Excellence is based in the Greater Houston area in Texas and serves clients across Texas and the United States, onsite and remote.
In 30 minutes we will pinpoint your biggest margin, service, and accuracy opportunities. No pitch, no obligation.
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