Proprietary Methodologies

See your supply chain the way Fortune 500s do — in 30 days.

Best For: Founders and operators who have outgrown informal vendor management; mid-market companies preparing for PE investment, M&A, or a major growth phase; businesses experiencing recurring supply disruptions, cost overruns, or vendor performance failures with no clear root cause.

Most mid-market businesses manage their supply chains reactively — responding to vendor failures, cost overruns, and operational bottlenecks as they arise rather than designing against them. The Kaiban Chain Scan™ changes that. Developed from 15+ years of Fortune 500 supply chain leadership — including direct accountability for a $200M+ technology supplier portfolio at Capital One and enterprise-wide sourcing transformation influencing 30% of enterprise spend at Ally Financial — the Kaiban Chain Scan™ is Kaiban Consulting's proprietary supply chain maturity diagnostic. It evaluates your operations across five dimensions: strategy, sourcing, vendor management, risk, and technology enablement. Each dimension is scored against Fortune 500 performance benchmarks, producing a calibrated maturity profile, a gap analysis, and a prioritized transformation roadmap tailored to your business's scale, industry, and growth objectives. The result is not a theoretical assessment — it is an actionable blueprint that tells you exactly where your supply chain is costing you money, where it is exposing you to risk, and what to do first.

How It Works:

• Week 1–2 | Discover: Kaiban conducts structured interviews with your operations, procurement, and finance stakeholders and audits your vendor contracts, sourcing processes, and supply chain data

• Week 3 | Score: Your supply chain is evaluated across all five dimensions and benchmarked against Fortune 500 maturity standards; gaps and opportunities are quantified in dollars and risk exposure

• Week 4 | Act: Kaiban delivers your Chain Scan™ report — a scored maturity profile, a prioritized gap remediation roadmap, and a 90-day quick-win action plan calibrated to your team's capacity

Engagements start at $25,000. Results delivered in 30 days.

Developed by Talon Rice, JD, MBA — ex-Head of Technology Operations Supply Chain at Ally Financial — from 15+ years of Fortune 500 supply chain leadership.

© Kaiban Consulting LLC, 2026. All rights reserved. The Kaiban Chain Scan™ is a proprietary methodology of Kaiban Consulting LLC. Unauthorized reproduction or use of this framework, in whole or in part, is prohibited.

Find the capital your vendors are holding hostage.

Best For: CFOs and business owners who suspect they are overpaying vendors but can't quantify it; PE-backed companies under pressure to improve balance sheet efficiency before a liquidity event; businesses with annual vendor spend above $2M that have never formally audited their payment terms, contract structures, or procurement discipline.

For most businesses, the single largest untapped source of capital is not a bank — it is the vendor relationships already on their books. Payment terms that favor suppliers over buyers, contract structures that lock in unfavorable rates, procurement processes that generate uncontrolled spending, and inventory positions misaligned with actual demand collectively trap millions of dollars that belong to the business. Cash Flow Unlocked™ is Kaiban Consulting's proprietary working capital diagnostic, built from Fortune 500 procurement and contract negotiation experience — including $30M+ in annual run-rate savings delivered at Capital One through restructured vendor contract strategies, and $4M+ in monthly invoice validation performed at Smurfit WestRock that consistently recovered credits and prevented cost leakage. The diagnostic maps your vendor payment terms, contract commitments, procurement workflows, and inventory dynamics against best-in-class benchmarks, quantifies the 12-month capital recovery opportunity in dollars, and produces a prioritized action plan to unlock that capital without disrupting operations. Kaiban has documented $45–60 million in working capital freed within 12 months of engagement for clients who implemented Cash Flow Unlocked™ recommendations.

How It Works:

• Phase 1 | Find the Leak: Kaiban audits your vendor contracts, payment terms, invoice history, and procurement workflows to map every point of working capital loss or inefficiency

• Phase 2 | Quantify the Opportunity: Each identified leak is translated into a 12-month dollar recovery estimate; findings are ranked by magnitude and ease of capture

• Phase 3 | Unlock It: Kaiban delivers a prioritized recovery playbook — renegotiation targets, payment term restructuring recommendations, and procurement discipline changes — with a 90-day implementation sprint

Standalone diagnostic starts at $15,000. Contingency pricing — structured as a percentage of recovered capital — available for qualifying engagements.

Developed by Talon Rice, JD, MBA — ex-Head of Technology Operations Supply Chain at Ally Financial — from 15+ years of contract negotiation and procurement leadership.

© Kaiban Consulting LLC, 2026. All rights reserved. Cash Flow Unlocked™ is a proprietary methodology of Kaiban Consulting LLC. Unauthorized reproduction or use of this framework, in whole or in part, is prohibited.

Know which suppliers you can depend on before a crisis tells you.

Best For: CPOs and procurement leaders managing portfolios of 10+ vendors without a formal risk tiering system; businesses in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, manufacturing) preparing for audits or regulatory reviews; companies that experienced a vendor failure, supply disruption, or compliance finding in the past 24 months and need a systematic prevention framework going forward.

A vendor failure does not announce itself. It arrives as a missed delivery, a regulatory finding, a concentrated dependency you didn't know you had, or a compliance gap that surfaces during an audit — after it has already become your problem. The Kaiban Vendor Trust Score™ is Kaiban Consulting's proprietary third-party vendor risk methodology, developed from direct TPRM leadership in financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare. Its foundation includes closing six high-severity regulatory findings against a mission-critical enterprise supplier at Capital One under active examiner scrutiny, rewriting four anti-bribery and foreign corrupt practices risk controls that governed 100+ suppliers across the enterprise, and establishing generative AI compliance requirements across Ally Financial's vendor portfolio as the technology emerged. The methodology evaluates every vendor in your portfolio across four dimensions: financial health, operational dependency, regulatory and compliance exposure, and portfolio concentration risk. Each vendor receives a scored tier designation — Strategic, Monitored, Developing, or At-Risk — with a remediation priority, a recommended monitoring cadence, and a documented rationale. The output is a complete vendor trust register, a risk heat map, and a remediation roadmap ranked by exposure severity and business impact.

How It Works:

• Phase 1 | Map: Kaiban inventories your full vendor portfolio, collects available financial, operational, and compliance data on each vendor, and identifies dependency concentrations and coverage gaps

• Phase 2 | Score: Each vendor is evaluated across all four Trust Score dimensions; scores are benchmarked against industry standards and regulatory expectations; a tiered risk register is produced

• Phase 3 | Protect: Kaiban delivers your Vendor Trust Score™ report — the complete tiered registry, a visual risk heat map, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and a recommended ongoing monitoring protocol to prevent regression

Engagements start at $40,000. Annual vendor monitoring retainer available at $15,000–$25,000 per year.

Developed by Talon Rice, JD, MBA — ex-Head of Network Operations Supply Chain at Capital One Financial— from 15+ years of third-party risk management in regulated financial services and manufacturing environments.

© Kaiban Consulting LLC, 2026. All rights reserved. The Kaiban Vendor Trust Score™ is a proprietary methodology of Kaiban Consulting LLC. Unauthorized reproduction or use of this framework, in whole or in part, is prohibited.

Build the revenue infrastructure that scales with you — not against you.

Best For: Healthcare organizations, professional services firms, and scaling businesses whose revenue growth has outpaced the systems, contracts, and partner relationships designed to support it; companies experiencing provider or partner network gaps that limit market penetration; businesses preparing to enter new markets, launch new lines of business, or integrate a strategic acquisition.

Revenue operations failures are rarely visible until they are expensive. A provider network with coverage gaps that blocks market expansion. Partner contracts structured for yesterday's business model. Account management processes that generate churn instead of renewal. Sales and operations teams working from different data in different systems toward different definitions of success. The Revenue Network Design™ is Kaiban Consulting's proprietary revenue operations and network architecture methodology, developed from 15+ years of provider network management, strategic contracting, and multi-channel business development leadership across Fortune 500 healthcare enterprises — including portfolio management of contracted and employed provider networks at Elevance Health's Carelon Health subsidiary, cross-functional contract implementation across multiple lines of business and regulatory environments, and direct accountability for growing healthcare network revenue through contracting strategy, relationship development, and performance analytics. The methodology maps your existing revenue network — partners, providers, accounts, channels, and contracts — identifies the gaps, misalignments, and structural inefficiencies limiting growth, and designs the operational architecture that supports sustainable, scalable revenue generation. The output is a network gap analysis, a restructured relationship and contract framework, and a 90-day revenue operations implementation plan.

How It Works:

• Phase 1 | Map the Network: Kaiban audits your current revenue relationships — partners, accounts, providers, channels — documenting contract terms, performance metrics, coverage gaps, and structural misalignments between your revenue model and your operational reality

• Phase 2 | Design the Architecture: Using Fortune 500 network design standards, Kaiban identifies the highest-impact changes to your partner/provider mix, contract structures, account management processes, and revenue operations workflows — and quantifies the revenue opportunity each change represents

• Phase 3 | Build and Launch: Kaiban delivers your Revenue Network Design™ report — a restructured network blueprint, a prioritized implementation roadmap, and a 90-day activation sprint with defined milestones, owner assignments, and revenue targets

Engagements start at $40,000. Ongoing revenue operations advisory retainer available.

Developed by Sherrie R. Reese-Rice, MBA — Chief Revenue Officer, Kaiban Consulting— from 15+ years of revenue operations and provider network architecture in Fortune 25 healthcare, large private enterprises and startups.

© Kaiban Consulting LLC, 2026. All rights reserved. The Revenue Network Design™ is a proprietary methodology of Kaiban Consulting LLC. Unauthorized reproduction or use of this framework, in whole or in part, is prohibited.