Producers and buyers hit the same wall: miners, refiners, battery makers and OEMs. The platform is bought or being chosen, and the rollout stalls on people, incentives and preparation. I find the constraint and fix it with your team, until it runs without me.
I've been the buyer, the seller and the team rolling it out.
Your customers now want to know where the material came from. The pilot ran on one site, but the other sites are not bought in and the site data does not match what the platform needs.
See how it works I'm a buyerYou need to trace material back through your suppliers, for example for a battery passport. The platform is chosen, but suppliers were brought in late and no one owns the scale-up.
See how it worksOne monthly engagement. I find the one thing stopping the rollout going live, and fix it inside your business with your team.
The technology is usually not the reason. The reasons are people, incentives and preparation.
The outcome, the first 30 days and the fee are agreed in a statement of work before anything starts. Monthly engagements, month to month after the first month. A part-time delivery lead, or embedded in your project team.
A fixed-scope look at where you stand on people, processes, data and governance, with a written plan you can use with or without me.
Mine-to-customer explainers for individual commodities, and practical guides for traceability rollouts and selling into mining. Every figure shows its source and the date I last checked it.
Seven stages from pyrochlore ore in Brazil to high-strength steel parts, with niobium content and the record that moves at each handover.
Open the explainerWhy traceability rollouts stall after the pilot, the data blueprint, the first 90 days and a go-live checklist.
If it does not start, download the guide.
Selling software into mining, metals and battery supply chains: finding the real buyer and pilots that convert.
Get the guideSixteen steps from naming the scale-up budget holder to showing momentum in the first 90 days, on a single page.
See the one-pagerFor software companies selling into mining, metals and battery supply chains. I sit in the seat: building pipeline, multi-threading the account and closing.
Background: Sales Director at a traceability software company, selling into mining, metals and battery supply chains.
See sales and BDFor accounting firms, insurance brokers and other service businesses. I map the process and the data first, automate with the systems you already pay for, then add AI only where it pays.
Background: process and operating-model review roles in large professional-services firms.
See workflow automationTraceability implementation lead, sourcing at BHP, Linklaters and EY. Executive MBA, AGSM (UNSW).
I run MN Consulting, and you work with me directly. I work with clients worldwide, remotely and on site.
A monthly engagement, scoped to your project: a part-time lead, or embedded in your project team. After an initial conversation I send a proposal, and the outcome, the first 30 days and the fee are agreed in a statement of work before anything starts. After the first month it runs month to month.
No. I do the work with your team until it is live. You get a working result, not a recommendations deck. If you are not ready for a monthly engagement, start with the gap assessment.
Usually because sites are not bought in, suppliers are brought in too late, and there is no senior sponsor driving the outcome. Often the person who asked for the pilot is not the one who holds the budget for the scale-up, and no one has the scale-up on their KPIs.
A gap assessment of people, processes, data and governance, then a plan with named owners and a weekly rhythm, agreed with your team.
With clients worldwide, remotely and on site.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. I will tell you whether I am the right fit and how I would run it, and send a proposal if it makes sense.
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