With 15 years of supply chain consulting across both growth and distressed environments, James Stevens helps distribution-intensive businesses improve cost and service performance. He leads engagements spanning network strategy, transportation and private fleet operations, warehouse design and implementation, and operational performance improvement, including location selection, labor management, and third-party logistics selection and management.
James works across the consumer products, industrials, and retail sectors, applying cross-industry lessons to each client's situation. His approach is operational and results-oriented: aligning network, fleet, and warehousing decisions to cost, service, and capacity, then building the operating model and systems to sustain the change.
His engagements have produced measurable results. As lead supply chain advisor to a $1B+ consumer products company, he managed transportation, inventory, distribution center operations, and third-party logistics selection and onboarding. He has led a network modernization that removed $2.7 million in annual operating expense, rationalized a top US private fleet with an immediate asset reduction and a multi-year roadmap, and designed thousands of custom delivery routes to test third-party logistics against insourcing.