Less Data, Better Outcomes
How operations leaders get data they'll use by starting with a specific goal.
Peter Trosper · October 2026
Senior-led operations & supply chain advisory
Better operations, better culture, best results.
Cade Operations Consulting is an operations and supply chain advisory firm led by experienced executive leaders. We help organizations improve performance, scale, and navigate complex transformation. We build the strategy, systems, and capabilities that turn complexity into disciplined, sustainable execution.
They aren’t consultants who stay in the conference room…
The Cade Ops team takes the time to actually learn your business.
What clients need
We are at our best when an organization needs to scale, improve performance, transform, or build capability.
We partner with C-suite and senior executives and their teams. Great operations and supply chains take strong leadership, data you can trust, and systems built to scale and sustain, so our work often brings several of our capabilities together.
Scale
Scale Complex Operations
Build the operating model, capabilities, and leadership required for the next stage of growth.
How we help Improve PerformanceImprove Operational Performance
Increase productivity, service, capacity, or margins while reducing waste and complexity.
How we help TransformExecute Complex Transformation
Turn strategic priorities, technology investments, and new capabilities into measurable operational results.
How we help Build CapabilityBuild Sustainable Capability
Strengthen the systems, data, processes, decision-making, and leadership required to sustain performance over time.
How we help
Why Cade Ops
We focus on the “how,” not just the “what.”
Knowing the right strategy isn’t enough. Scalable results require systems, mechanisms, and leadership that work together. Our solutions integrate processes, data, technology, and organizational design so a business can scale in a way that is effective, people-centered, and built to last.
About Cade Ops
Work with us
Let's talk about what you're building.
Tell us where you are headed and what is getting in the way.
Start the conversation
Where we have deep expertise
The capabilities we draw on to solve those needs.
An engagement may rely on one capability or intentionally combine several, depending on what the problem requires.
Operations & Manufacturing
Performance and transformation, including process, labor, automation, productivity, quality, capacity, and operating systems.
Explore capabilityKelly NeumanManaging Principal, Operations & ManufacturingSupply Chain & Logistics
Movement of goods across the network, including B2B/B2C fulfillment, transportation, inventory, network design, and last mile.
Explore capabilityChris RallisManaging Principal, Supply Chain & LogisticsData, Analytics & AI Enablement
The measurement strategy, data, architecture, governance, analytics, and decision systems that enable better decisions, goal setting, and responsible AI adoption.
Explore capabilityPeter TrosperManaging Principal, Data, Analytics & AI EnablementLeadership & Organizational Effectiveness
Strengthening leaders, organizational structures, operating mechanisms, accountability, and the capabilities required to scale.
Explore capabilityCarolyn CadeChief Executive OfficerSustainability Strategy & Implementation
Translating sustainability goals into executable roadmaps, investment decisions, operating mechanisms, and measurable results.
Explore capabilitySilvia BenavidesManaging Principal, Sustainability Strategy & ImplementationHow Cade Ops creates results
- Stage 1Set Direction
Clarify where the organization is going, the outcomes it needs to achieve, and the capabilities required to get there.
- Stage 2Build Systems
Design the processes, data, technology, organizational structures, and operating mechanisms required to turn direction into execution.
- Stage 3Execute & Sustain
Implement the systems, strengthen adoption and accountability, and build the leadership and organizational capability required to sustain performance over time.
The outcome
- Clearer direction
- Stronger operating systems
- Better business performance
- Greater internal capability
Insights & articles
Practical thinking from people who have done the work.
Data, Analytics & AI Enablement
Peter Trosper · October 2026
Peter Trosper · October 2026
Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness
Kelly Neuman · August 2026
Prioritization Is a Leadership Discipline
Most teams have too little focus, and that's a leadership problem.
Kelly Neuman · August 2026
Supply Chain & Logistics
Carolyn Cade · July 2026
The Three Planning Horizons Every Operation Needs
How to connect long-term capacity decisions, mid-term labor planning, and short-term execution.
Carolyn Cade · July 2026