A sponsor-side advisory practice for manufacturers in regulated industries — the operator's perspective on supply chain, external manufacturing, and the disposition work that decides whether a batch ships or waits.
Services — Practice 1 · Operations
1Interim Business Operations & SCM Management
Contract operations leadership — production planning & scheduling, materials and inventory planning, and operating-metrics setup — embedded sponsor-side.
2CDMO Management-as-a-Service
Ongoing oversight of your contract manufacturers: governance, performance, and the day-to-day decisions that keep external supply on plan.
3SAP Master Data & Materials Management
Master-data integrity and materials-management discipline in SAP — starting with a fixed-fee review of the data your plans run on.
4Documentation Standardization
Consistent, audit-ready operational documentation — batch-record and controlled-document practices standardized across sites and partners.
5Clinical & Commercial Campaign Readiness
Campaign planning and readiness for clinical and commercial manufacturing — materials, schedules, and disposition aligned before the run starts.
6SERVQUAL Service-Quality Surveys & Gap Assessment
Structured service-quality measurement of your suppliers and CDMOs — expectations vs. perception, gap by gap, with a prioritized fix list.
Services — Practice 2 · Strategy & Global Expansion
7Global Market-Entry & Expansion Advisory
Where to enter, in what order, and with what supply model — market-entry analysis grounded in operating reality.
8Supply-Chain Footprint & Resilience Review
Network footprint and resilience assessment — where your chain is exposed, and what to move, dual-source, or hold.
9Trade-Barrier & Market-Access Assessment
Tariff, trade-barrier, and market-access analysis for a named product and market — landed cost quantified before you commit.
All engagements are scoped individually. Contact for pricing.
About
GXP SCM is the practice of Franco Paredes — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and supply chain and operations leader whose career spans Sanofi, Vertex, Moderna, and Medtronic: external manufacturing and supply, materials and inventory planning, and cGxP/GMP operations across clinical and commercial campaigns.
The practice works the way a great bartender works a room: know the room, listen first, connect the people, and never keep a tab on helping.