Procurement & Supply Chain Advisory

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MGS helps leaders test how procurement and supply could affect an investment, growth plan, ownership change, or critical operating decision, then choose what to address first. MGS connects business strategy, product and service choices, and sustainability with sourcing, supplier relationships, contracts, and the teams doing the work.

Procurement & Supply Chain Priorities

Questions worth testing early.

The right procurement or supply question can change a plan before time and capital are committed. These examples show where an independent assessment can clarify exposure, tradeoffs, and priorities.

  1. Growth & product design

    Consider product or service requirements alongside supplier innovation, capacity, and sourcing options as growth choices take shape.

  2. Sourcing as a competitive edge

    Explore how supplier capabilities, innovation, commercial models, and material choices can strengthen differentiation, economics, and optionality.

  3. Margin, cash & investment

    Evaluate how specifications, commercial terms, and capacity commitments affect total cost, working capital, and lead times.

  4. Supply resiliency

    Identify shared suppliers and upstream dependencies. Prioritize interventions to improve resiliency while maintaining a competitive advantage.

  5. Investment & ownership

    Examine how procurement, product plans, and supplier commitments affect an acquisition, reinvestment, or change in ownership.

Who MGS helps

Procurement advice for leaders and investors.

MGS advises company leaders on growth and operating choices, and private equity sponsors on procurement and supply questions before and after a deal.

Company leaders

MGS supports CEOs, owners and leadership teams when procurement and supply choices could materially affect growth, profitability, continuity or a major transition.

  • Growth and product scale-up. Assess whether supply, sourcing and supplier capabilities can support the plan.
  • Margin, cash and capacity pressure. Clarify the choices and tradeoffs behind cost, cash and operating priorities.
  • Disruption and concentration. Understand exposure, alternatives and the decisions needed to protect continuity.
  • Acquisition, succession and ownership change. Test procurement and supply implications before and after a critical transition.

Private equity sponsors

MGS supports investment teams, operating partners and portfolio company leaders when procurement and supply could affect the investment thesis, execution risk or value creation plan.

  • Diligence. Evaluate procurement and supply assumptions, evidence gaps and material risks.
  • Pre-close decisions. Identify value opportunities and the issues that deserve leadership attention.
  • Post-close priorities. Translate findings into a focused agenda with ownership and decision points.
  • Growth, continuity and sourcing. Connect operating priorities to practical procurement and supply actions.

Where MGS helps

Procurement advice that shapes the decision.

MGS tests how procurement and supply could change a business decision, identifies where risk or value may emerge, and helps leaders choose what to address first. The work can span a growth plan, an investment, or a critical supplier negotiation.

  1. Connect procurement and supply to business strategy

    Connect business and product priorities to sourcing choices, supplier relationships, contracts, procurement capabilities, governance and decision rights. Clarify where procurement and supply can enable the strategy, where they may constrain it, and which choices require leadership attention.

  2. Test investment and ownership decisions

    Test whether procurement and supply assumptions can support an investment, acquisition, succession, capacity commitment or ownership change. Identify material risks, potential value, evidence gaps and the questions that should shape the decision and any follow-on priorities.

  3. Prioritize procurement and supply value creation

    Translate growth, margin, savings, cash and working-capital objectives into a financially grounded procurement and supply agenda. Size and sequence achievable opportunities, clarify timing, ownership, dependencies and decision points, and focus leadership attention where value and feasibility are strongest.

  4. Navigate critical supply, supplier and contract decisions

    Strengthen strategic supplier relationships and make critical sourcing, supply and contract choices with a clear view of business priorities, capability, economics, continuity and mutual value. This can include relationship strategy, joint business planning, governance, negotiations, concentration and capacity decisions, and sequencing a practical path forward.

Experience and leadership

Proven procurement leadership at scale.

Sadimar (Sadi) Montesinos, MGS’ founder and principal, brings 25+ years of procurement and supply leadership in consumer products, plus experience assessing manufacturers and suppliers across industries.

Years of leadership
25+
In procurement and supply
Annual spend
~$2B
Purchasing responsibility
Team members
35
Global procurement leadership
Savings & cash
$600M+
Improvements delivered by her teams
Sales protected & enabled
$1B+
Incremental sales

Experience figures reflect Sadi’s operating leadership and outcomes delivered by teams she led at Procter & Gamble. They are not presented as MGS client results.

Sadimar (Sadi) Montesinos, Founder and Principal of MGS
Founder & Principal

Founder & Principal

Sadimar (Sadi) MontesinosMBA

Founder & Principal

Sadi brings 25+ years of procurement and supply leadership at Procter & Gamble, culminating in divisional Chief Procurement Officer-level responsibility.

Her experience spans tissue and towel, baby and feminine care, beauty, and P&G Ventures. During that career, she also assessed manufacturers and suppliers across industries.

She connects business strategy and product choices with sourcing, supplier relationships, contracts, and the teams doing the work. Her deep experience in sustainability helps clients identify where materials, supplier innovation, and sourcing choices can create a competitive edge.

Sadi works directly with clients and may continue advising during implementation. Management retains final decisions and day-to-day execution.

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Could procurement or supply change the outcome?

Considering a new product, a sourcing change, or an investment? Tell Sadi what you are weighing and where procurement or supply could make a difference.