Case study · E-commerce
PPS Consulting India rewrote the supply chain standard operating procedures (SOPs) of an Amazon seller and automated the work in Asana and Google Sheets, in 95 hours. Time spent on supply chain management fell by half with the same team, and the client launched a supply chain consulting service for other sellers on the new system.
50% less time
on supply chain management, with the same team, after 95 hours of work
The business sold through Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and wanted to offer supply chain management to other sellers as a consulting service, but its own processes were inefficient and fragmented.
The SOPs were long and hard to follow. Work was tracked in Asana and Google Sheets that didn't agree with each other, nothing tracked stock centrally as it moved between third-party warehouses and Amazon, and repetitive manual steps took time and raised the risk of errors.
An audit of the existing SOPs and workflows to find the bottlenecks, and of the manual tracking to find where automation would help most.
The supply chain SOPs rewritten end to end: shorter, easier to follow, and each one tied to a single step from purchase order to fulfilment.
Asana templates for each key process: purchase orders, quality checks and approvals, freight forwarding and stock movement, and handoffs within the team. Google Sheets templates for inventory tracking and reporting, fed from the same steps.
A repeatable process the client could copy for each new consulting client, run by its own team.
Each box is one SOP and one Asana template. Dates and counts flow to a Google Sheets tracker.
The client runs the SOPs and templates itself, and copies them for each new consulting client.
It is if:
“Rahul was able to take my vision and turn it into a tangible and well-organized system. He understood and anticipated my needs, making suggestions that greatly improved the overall outcome.”
With the PPS Backbone Review: four weeks, a fixed fee of ₹1,50,000 to ₹3,50,000 plus GST and expenses, one fix working by the end, and a plan with owners and measures that is yours to keep, whether or not we build it with you.
How the Review works5x locations, 7x fleet
from one pharmacy and location to two pharmacies and five locations in four months, and from 3 drivers to 20+
Relevant if you are about to open your second, third or fifth location, and the first one still runs on you.
Runs without the founder
SOPs for the recurring work, one workspace, and a weekly rhythm the operations lead now runs
Relevant if every client question in your business still reaches the founder.
One record
for each patient, from referral to discharge, with every view and the monthly report built from it
Relevant if your client or patient records live in several places and nobody trusts the count.
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This one took 95 hours: an audit, the SOPs rewritten end to end, Asana templates for each process and Google Sheets tracking behind them. Larger operations take longer, but the order is the same: fix the process on paper, then automate it.
Not here. The client already used Asana and Google Sheets; the gain came from shorter SOPs, one template for each process and data flowing to one tracker, not from a new tool.
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