An Australian DTC footwear brand engaged Zefyr Consulting to conduct a comprehensive review and restructuring of their US and Canada operations. The primary objective remained clear: to identify cost-saving opportunities that would significantly impact COGS while sustaining the brand's quality and service standards.

$350M Asian Apparel Manufacturer wanted to build a strategy for Near Shoring to diversify and enable their global footprint.  Zefyr worked with this factory group to look at a Landed FOB cost model comparison of Asia (China, Vietnam, & Cambodia) vs Mexico.  Our goal was to share what Landed Margin looked like fully loaded.

Leading e-commerce supplier of licensed products wanting to reduce time to market, cost, increase capacity and remove inventory from their replenishment supply chain. Client lacked internal experience to develop and implement end-to-end process and technology systems to deliver replenishment Near Shore.

Major international footwear material supplier was in imminent danger of being cut by largest brand customer, accounting for > 65% of total revenue. Zefyr drove turnaround process, improving performance by 70%.

Zefyr worked with a Category-leading Direct to Consumer Hunting Brand to align their strategic priorities and secure quick wins in sourcing, process, and organization.

Zefyr partnered with a premium Work Glove brand to refine their source strategy, clarify partner investments and divestments and introduce Quality Management processes and organization.

Zefyr partnered with a multi-national specialty retailer that was growing quickly and outpacing their source base. Client needed a sourcing strategy, sourcing roadmap, and associated planning roadmap and organizational recommendations.

Multi billion-dollar online retailer wanted to create a lifestyle brand to drive incremental growth revenue and new demographics to its existing customer base.

$350M Asian Apparel Manufacturer wanted to build a strategy for Nearshoring to diversify and enable their global footprint.