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Procurement and operations work for industrial, CPG, and small operators

When procurement breaks. When operations should be automated. When the consulting bill won't fit.

I parachute into procurement crises, build the document and process automation that prevents the next one, and hand back a working system your team owns. Build inside the system you own. Convert it into your own ecosystem, tuned to your operation. One subscription is enough. No new vendor, no new login, no new invoice.

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Practice led by Volodymyr Brykanov.

Taking 2 new mandates - Q3
Industrial, CPG & small operators 6 countries operated Google & Microsoft stacks Timelines visible, scope fixed
01 What we build

Four products. Fixed scope. Defined timelines.

Each engagement is built inside the system you already own and converted into an ecosystem tuned to your operation. Timelines are on the card. Scope is the conversation.

Editorial photograph of an industrial operations control desk with monitors showing abstract supply chain dashboards
01 - Procurement Crisis Manager

Parachute into the urgent procurement mess. Stabilize it. Hand back a playbook.

For operators with a supply chain on fire who cannot wait six months to fill a Director seat.

30-day First operational win and stabilized handoff

Vendor blowups, stalled ERP rollouts, AP that cannot close the month, sole-source emergency replacement, demand spikes with no plan. I show up, stabilize the operation, and hand back the runbook your team uses next time. Visible operational win inside thirty days.

  • Crisis triage and stakeholder alignment inside week one
  • Supplier consolidation, contract repair, sole-source unwind
  • Interim category leadership across affected spend
  • Runbook plus team training for the handoff
Engagement Project engagement: 4-12 weeks. Or crisis retainer: monthly, first-call SLA, 6-month minimum.
Best for Companies in active procurement pain who need the function stabilized this quarter, not next year.
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Editorial overhead photograph of organized business documents and an automated document workflow on a warm paper-toned desk
02 - Document and Processing Automation

Build it once. You own it forever. No new SaaS, no new login.

For ops teams drowning in manual document work who refuse to pay for another subscription.

4-week First working automation shipped end-to-end

RFQ intake, supplier onboarding, three-way match, AP reconciliation, contract clause extraction, PO routing. Built inside Google Workspace plus Vertex AI or Microsoft 365 plus Azure OpenAI - whichever ecosystem you already pay for. Your team owns the keys, the data, and the system after I leave.

  • Process map and intake design, scoped against the bottleneck
  • Working automation built on Apps Script, Power Automate, or both
  • Document AI or Azure OpenAI for unstructured intake
  • Admin docs plus your team trained to run it
Engagement Per build: 2-8 weeks.
Best for Teams running critical document or processing work by hand on tools they already pay for, who want the work done by software instead.
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03 - Process Optimization

Find the waste. Fix the waste. Train your team to keep it gone.

For teams who know something is broken but cannot pinpoint where it bleeds.

6-12wk Function redesigned, rolled out, and trained

Process mapping, bottleneck removal, role redesign, workflow reengineering across procurement, accounts payable, supplier management, inventory, and demand planning. Deliverable is a redesigned process, a change rollout your people can actually execute, and measurable ROI you can track quarter over quarter.

  • Current-state process map and bottleneck diagnosis
  • Role-by-role redesign with named owners
  • Change rollout plan plus training cadence
  • ROI tracking dashboard for the CFO
Engagement Per function: 6-12 weeks.
Best for Operators who can feel the friction but cannot name it, and want it named, fixed, and trained out.
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04 - AI Integration

AI that lives inside your tools. Not another SaaS to log into.

For operators who want AI to do real work, not become another tool to manage.

3-week First AI workflow live in your tenancy

LLM and agent layer embedded inside your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 stack. Custom prompts. Custom workflows. You own the keys, the data, and the orchestration. Built on Vertex AI, Gemini, and Document AI on Google. Built on Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and Power Automate on Microsoft.

  • Use-case scoping anchored to a measurable workflow
  • Working AI workflow built in your own tenancy
  • Prompts, agents, and evaluation harness handed back
  • Admin docs plus your team trained to extend it
Engagement Per workflow: 2-6 weeks.
Best for Operators ready to put generative AI to work on a real process they already run, without locking in another vendor.
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02 Playbooks

Three crisis playbooks. Written down.

Three reference engagements that show the shape of the work. Each one structured the same way: name the brief, do the work, hand back the system inside the stack the client already owned.

Anonymized to protect client confidentiality

Playbook 01 - Multi-site procurement system

A buying function that no longer lived inside one buyer's head.

Six plants, fragmented sourcing, no master agreements, and a procurement function that depended on one senior buyer's relationships. Leadership wanted a system the next hire could run on day one.

The work

  • Spend transparency rebuild across plants
  • Category-by-category supplier consolidation
  • Master-agreement framework, signed and live
  • Buyer playbook plus onboarding for the next hire

The handoff

  • Procurement runbook owned by the operations director
  • Quarterly review cycle the CFO can read in 10 minutes
  • Documented sourcing process every plant follows
  • Self-service spend dashboard, no analyst required

Stack

Google Sheets Apps Script Looker Studio DocuSign

Playbook 02 - AP automation, no rip-and-replace

Invoices stopped being the bottleneck nobody owned.

A finance team running invoice processing in five formats across three shifts, with reconciliation done by hand and a backlog that lived on a shared drive. Leadership wanted relief without a six-figure ERP module.

The work

  • OCR ingestion into a single intake queue
  • Three-way match automation on existing data
  • Exception routing with named approval paths
  • Audit trail the controller can stand behind

The handoff

  • Finance team frees roughly one full-time desk
  • Documented exception process for new hires
  • Monthly close that does not depend on heroics
  • Stack runs on tools the company already pays for

Stack

Google Workspace Apps Script Document AI Existing ERP

Playbook 03 - Mid-ERP-rollout bridge

Critical workflows stopped living in spreadsheets nobody could replace.

An operator mid-ERP migration with procurement workflows still running on spreadsheets the finance manager maintained by hand. The risk: lose the spreadsheet author, lose the function. The brief: a controlled migration path, not a big bang.

The work

  • Bridge layer between ERP source-of-truth and live workflows
  • Versioned, audited replacements for critical sheets
  • Phased cutover with a rollback path at each step
  • Documentation of every business rule before it moved

The handoff

  • Workflows owned by named people, not spreadsheets
  • Migration playbook the IT team can extend
  • No surprises in the ERP rollout sequence
  • Quiet decommission of legacy sheets, in order

Stack

Apps Script ERP REST API Google Sheets Cloud Run
03 Start here

Two free audits. Two ways to begin.

Both are free, fixed-scope, and end in a written read you can take to leadership. Most engagements start with one of these.

A1 - Procurement Leak Audit

Find where money leaks out of your procurement.

Sixty-minute structured diagnostic. One page in your inbox the next day.

We walk one category cluster end to end. Where the leaks are, what they cost you, and what the recovery would take. No deck, no slideware - a one-page leak map with three prioritized fixes and the rough order of magnitude on each.

  • Sixty minutes on a call, one category cluster covered
  • One-page leak map delivered the next business day
  • Three prioritized fixes with rough ROI on each
  • No obligation. No follow-up sales sequence.
Engagement Free, 60 minutes. No obligation.
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A2 - Supply Chain Audit

Pressure-test the whole chain. End to end.

Ninety-minute review across sourcing, receiving, AP, and outbound logistics.

Broader than the leak audit. We map the full chain from sourcing through receiving, accounts payable, and outbound logistics. Output is a risk concentration map plus five hardening recommendations. If material risk surfaces, a paid pilot is on the table.

  • Ninety minutes on a call, full chain in scope
  • Risk concentration map delivered within two business days
  • Five hardening recommendations, prioritized
  • Optional paid pilot engagement if material risk surfaces
Engagement Free initial 90 minutes. Pilot scoped separately if material risk surfaces.
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Portrait of Volodymyr Brykanov in a downtown financial district at golden hour. Grey checked jacket, white shirt, glasses. Procurement Crisis Manager and Operations Automation Practitioner.
04 About the practice

Volodymyr Brykanov

Procurement crisis response and operations automation. Project-scoped. Inside the stack you already run.

Easy Implementation. Easy Execution. I parachute into procurement and operations problems for industrial, CPG, and small operators. Crisis fixes that hold. Document and process automation that lives inside the Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 stack you already own. A working ecosystem your team runs after I leave.

Six countries operated. Both ecosystems delivered. Procurement and automation work across industrial and CPG operators, built on Google Apps Script plus Vertex AI on the Google side, and on Power Automate plus Azure OpenAI on the Microsoft side. Pick the stack you already pay for. We work inside it.

Engagements are designed to retire. Timelines are visible on each card. Scope is the conversation. The deliverable is not a deck; it is a system your team operates after the engagement closes.

Google Workspace Microsoft 365 Apps Script Power Automate Vertex AI Azure OpenAI Document AI Firebase SharePoint ERP integrations
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05 Let's scope it

Procurement on fire? Or just done paying for SaaS that doesn't ship?

Thirty minutes is enough to name the gap and decide whether the practice fits. Timelines are on the page. Scope is the conversation. No prepared slides, no obligation.

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Currently taking 2 new mandates - Q3