A hands-on program for distributors. In one working day, fix a costly recurring process using your own files. Then screen your pricing, freight, rebates and discounts for margin leakage worth a deeper look.
Margin leaks in the gaps between systems and people. These are the places we look first.
Discounts and manual price changes that drift below target margin with no review.
Supplier increases that reach your cost file faster than they reach your sell prices.
Shipping and handling costs that are not fully recovered on the invoice.
Vendor program thresholds missed or claims never filed.
High-volume accounts that cost more to serve than they return.
Quote follow-up, order status, AR chasing and reporting that consume skilled hours.
Each step stands on its own. You decide after each one whether the next is worth it.
A working day where one costly process is rebuilt and tested on your own files.
A fast screen that flags where pricing, freight, rebates or discounts may be leaking.
A transaction-level review of your ERP data, scoped after the screen shows what is worth investigating.
Monthly check-ins so new leaks are caught early and fixed processes stay fixed.
The Action Lab makes sense on its own, even if you never buy the audit. Results are reported as measured time and capacity recovered. We do not guarantee savings.
Before the session, you pick your top three workflows from our library. We score each for business impact, feasibility and data readiness, then prepare and test the best one before the day.
The library is a defined set, not an open-ended promise. Workflows that need ERP integration, complex APIs or IT approval are scoped as a separate project.
Typically 30-500 employees. We start with these segments:
Also working with industrial equipment, automation, metals and safety distributors.
The work is done before the session. The day is for adapting it to your business and testing it on your real data.
We sign a mutual NDA before any files are shared, and the workshop works with sanitized samples. The margin audit uses ERP exports under a separate data-handling agreement. Details are on our Security & Trust page.
Skilled Edge is led by an operations and program manager with 18+ years of experience in process improvement, quality assurance and safety, and an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor. We look at how a process works, decide what the outcome should be, and then use ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft, Google and spreadsheets to build a better way to do it.
Not for the Action Lab or the Margin Exposure Screen. The audit uses ERP transaction exports, and only after an NDA and a data-handling agreement.
No. The goal is a working, tested workflow on your own files and a measured result, not a class on AI tools.
No. We measure and report time and capacity recovered, and flag margin exposure for investigation. Any dollar figures come from your own data.
The person who owns the process we are fixing, usually an operations, finance, purchasing or sales-operations lead. One attendee per company.
Pilot and founding-cohort pricing is available for early participants. Apply below and we will send current details.
Tell us about your business. We reply within one business day.