Consulting

Finance consulting for agricultural retail and cooperatives.

Fixed scope. Deliverable-based. Built from twenty years running the finance side of agriculture — from a $30M farmer-owned cooperative to a $1.6B, 140-location retail platform, through a 10× private-equity exit. Currently engaged by a $3B farmer-owned agricultural cooperative on inventory costing and margin integrity.

What I take on

Inventory costing & landed cost

Tracing cost from purchase order through receiving, add-ons, and inventory to the customer invoice — so the margin on the page is the margin you actually earned.

P&L clean-up & cost classification

Finding costs posted to the wrong location or line, correcting how they're classified, and rebuilding operators' trust in their own statements.

Margin analysis by segment

Margin by location, department, and product line — with the definitions written down so operations and finance argue about decisions, not numbers.

ERP & reporting

Deep working experience in AgVance (SSI) and SAP environments — configuration review, data requests, and the reporting layer that makes the numbers believable.

Board & lender reporting

Monthly packs, covenant reporting, and 13-week cash discipline — the kind that survived private-equity diligence with no material adjustments.

M&A diligence & integration

Sell-side preparation, diligence support, and post-close integration — the subject of The Executive's Complete M&A Integration Playbook.

How engagements run

Every engagement is scoped around one problem, priced as a fixed fee agreed up front, and run on a weekly leadership update — status, decisions needed, risks on the radar. Discovery, delivery, handoff. When the deliverable is in your hands and your team can run it without me, the engagement is done.