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Cameo Consulting builds supply chain analytics for mid-market operators: data warehouses that connect your ERP, TMS, and accounting systems, and BI dashboards that show profit by lane, by site, and by customer. The goal is simple. Stop making freight, inventory, and pricing decisions on gut feel because the numbers live in 5 different systems. Cameo Consulting works inside your systems alongside your team. Clients who already know which numbers they are missing can start directly on the data warehouse or the dashboard build. An assessment is available for those who need to map the gaps first.
Why are supply chain decisions still made on gut feel?
Because the data lives in five places. The ERP says one thing, the TMS says another, and accounting closes the books 3 weeks after the freight moved. Nobody is lying. The systems just never learned to talk to each other.
The result shows up in the P&L. Most mid-market operators can tell you revenue by customer. Far fewer can tell you profit by customer, and almost none can tell you profit by lane, by site, or by product line. So the big calls (which business to chase, which lanes to reprice, which site to fix) get made on instinct and last year's spreadsheet.
Cameo Consulting closes that gap. Not with a 2-year IT program, but with a working data layer and reports your team actually opens on Monday morning.
When companies call about this
When should you bring in a supply chain analytics consultant?
Four situations come up again and again.
You are a roll-up with disconnected systems
You bought 3, 5, or 7 companies and each one arrived with its own TMS, ERP, and chart of accounts. Consolidated reporting means someone emailing spreadsheets on the 10th of the month.
Profitability is unknown below the P&L line
The company made money last quarter. Which customers, lanes, or sites made it (and which ones quietly lost it) is anyone's guess.
Reporting is one person's spreadsheet
A planner or analyst built a workbook years ago, and now the whole operation runs through it. If that person takes 2 weeks off, the reporting stops.
An ERP migration is looming
You are about to spend 7 figures on a new system, and nobody has mapped what the current reports actually do, where the data comes from, or which ones are worth carrying forward.
What do you walk away with?
Working software and the ability to run it without Cameo Consulting. Concretely: a data warehouse connected to your source systems, dashboards your managers use in weekly reviews, a profitability model documented down to the allocation logic, and written runbooks plus training so the reporting survives turnover.
If the engagement is an assessment, you get a prioritized roadmap with effort and value estimates for each fix, typically 5 to 10 items ranked by payback.
What does the work include?
The work
- Data warehousing across ERP, TMS, and accounting. One governed data layer that pulls from the systems you already run, so every report starts from the same numbers. Built on mainstream, widely supported tools your team can maintain, not a proprietary black box.
- BI platforms and dashboards. Working dashboards in the BI tool you already license, designed around the 5 to 10 questions leadership actually asks. No 40-page report packs nobody reads.
- Lane, site, and customer profitability. Cost and margin allocated down to the level where decisions get made: this lane, this terminal, this account. This is usually where the surprises live.
- Pricing and profitability analytics. Once you can see margin by lane and customer, you can reprice with evidence. Contribution-margin models, rate benchmarking, and what-if tools for quoting new business.
- Reporting and systems assessments. A structured review of what gets reported today, who builds it, where the data comes from, and what breaks. Useful on its own, and essential before an ERP migration.
What do you get?
- A data warehouse connected to your source systems.
- Dashboards your managers use in weekly reviews.
- A profitability model documented down to the allocation logic.
- Written runbooks plus training so the reporting survives turnover.
- If the engagement is an assessment: a prioritized roadmap with effort and value estimates for each fix, typically 5 to 10 items ranked by payback.
What does this look like in practice?
A roll-up of seven trucking and logistics companies, $250M+ in combined revenue, ran on a patchwork of TMS, ERP, and accounting systems. Consolidated performance reporting did not exist below the income statement. Cameo Consulting built a data warehouse across the operating and accounting systems and stood up a unified BI platform on top of it. For the first time, ownership could track cost and profitability by lane and by site across all seven companies, on one screen, from one set of numbers.
Read the case → Contract Manufacturing Contract Electronics ManufacturerA contract electronics manufacturer ran production reporting through 4 disconnected systems and 1 planner's spreadsheet. Cameo Consulting assessed 6 reporting areas (part shortages, open customer orders, capacity planning, and demand variance among them), mapped how data actually moved between systems, and delivered a prioritized plan: which reports to standardize, which handoffs to automate, and the SOPs to get critical knowledge out of one person's head. The assessment wrapped in about 5 weeks.
Read the case →Frequently asked questions
Do we need to buy new software before starting?
Usually not. Most of this work runs on tools you already license or on low-cost mainstream components, and the first step is always to get more out of what you have. Cameo Consulting does not resell software and takes no referral fees, so any recommendation to buy something is because the numbers support it.
How long until we see the first working dashboard?
For most clients, the first working views land in 2 to 4 weeks once source-system access is in place. A full lane, site, and customer profitability model typically takes 8 to 12 weeks depending on how many systems feed it. Assessments are faster: 2 weeks for a Rapid Diagnostic on one domain, 4 to 6 weeks for a Full Assessment.
How is this different from hiring a BI developer or an agency?
A developer builds what they are told to build. Cameo Consulting starts one step earlier, with the business question: which lanes, sites, and customers make money, and what would you do differently if you knew? The data model gets designed around those decisions, informed by hands-on experience running and fixing supply chains, not just building reports about them.
Find out what your data is not telling you
A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether this fits. If you already know which numbers are missing, work can start directly on the data warehouse or dashboard build. If you need to map the gaps first, the Supply Chain Value Assessment scopes the opportunity: 2 weeks for one domain, 4 to 6 weeks for the full picture, fixed fee quoted up front.
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