Zoro Solutions
Operating Partner — Operations, Supply Chain & Margin // $2M–$30M Product Businesses

Find where the business leaks.
Fix the system that leaks it.

A fixed-fee Operating & Financial Diagnostic locates the drag in your supply chain, your process, and your numbers — then one senior partner stays to build the machinery that holds, one to two days a week.

Sectors
Food & Ag · CPG · Packaging · Manufacturing · Distribution
Territory
Northern & Southern California · remote nationwide
Entry
Fixed-fee diagnostic — no prices before fit

You see the same numbers I do

Every engagement runs on a live dashboard.

From day one, you see the same numbers I do — diagnostics, KPIs, and progress tracked in real time, not buried in a quarterly deck.

  • Live operating & financial diagnostics
  • Weekly KPI tracking, not month-end surprises
  • Board-ready reporting, built as we go
REVENUE +18% RUNWAY 14 mo INVENTORY DAYS −12

Sample client view — illustrative figures, not results. Your numbers, your view.

The engagement, measured — Diagnose → Design → Drive

01 · Diagnose

3–4 weeks · fixed fee · findings dossier

02 · Design

12-month roadmap, ranked by cash impact

03 · Drive

1–2 days/week until the machinery holds

Diagnostic Duration
3–4 wks
Fixed fee, quoted after scoping call
Mandates Covered
Ops + Finance
Operations and finance as one system
You Keep
2 deliverables
Findings dossier + 12-month roadmap
Fee Treatment
50%
Credits against a retainer
Method

A clear diagnosis. Then the work that makes it hold.

We start with the constraint that matters most, turn it into a short list of decisions, and stay close enough to see the change take root.

Supply chain map
Suppliers Ops Hub Distribution Retail Finance
Process map
Start Intake Fit? yes no Scope Refer out
01

Find the actual drag

A fixed-fee diagnostic maps the operating and financial friction that is quietly costing you speed, margin, or attention.

02

Choose the moves that matter

We convert the findings into a practical sequence: what to change now, what to defer, and who needs to own the work.

03

Stay until the system holds

When the fit is right, one senior partner stays involved — shaping the operating cadence and seeing the critical work through.

Case scenario

A $3M product business. Where the margin was actually going.

A representative diagnostic for an owner-led manufacturer with 20 people: healthy sales, thin cash, and no one sure why. Three pictures from the findings dossier tell the whole story.

Gross margin on paper
$1.05M
Leaks found
$312K
Recoverable in 12 months
$190K

1 · Margin leak bridge

Gross margin, then the five places it quietly disappears — ranked by dollars, not opinions.

$0$500K$1.0M $1,050K−92K−68K−75K−44K−33K$738K+190K Gross marginFreightPackagingInventorycarryingReworkOvertimeAvailableRecoverable

2 · Twelve months later

Four numbers the owner watches, before and after the operating fixes took hold.

Inventory daysGross marginOn-time deliveryCash tied in stock 8435%87%$610K 5841%96%$420K Before After

3 · Supplier concentration

Share of annual spend by supplier. One vendor over the 40% line can stop the business.

Supplier ASupplier BSupplier CSupplier DSupplier EAll others 46%18%12%9%6%9% 40% single-supplier risk line

Representative scenario built from typical findings in owner-led product businesses; figures are illustrative, not a specific client's results.

Principal

Jan Zeleznak

Operating Partner — Operations & Supply Chain · Northern & Southern California
MBA (Strategic Management) · APICS CSCP · Six Sigma Green Belt · 20+ years in operations, sourcing & supply chain · formerly Category Manager, Supply Chain & Packaging at Inter IKEA (12+ North American plants)
Good operating design is invisible until you need it — the goal isn't to make things look busy, it's to make the business easier to run.

Jan works with owner-led product businesses to close the gap between the numbers and the operation — building the reporting, the process, and the accountability that let a business scale without the founder holding every piece together personally.

Ready to see where your business leaks?

A 30-minute scoping call to confirm fit, before any commitment or cost.

Book a 30-minute scoping call
No obligation. Fixed-fee diagnostic before any deeper engagement.