▸ Supply & Production
A GearKit crew runs the supply side end-to-end — Sage on the co-packers, Pier on freight, Forge on suppliers and ingredients. They chase emails, track runs, watch lane margins, refresh COAs, and draft the POs. You approve at the boundary.
60% stays at Green Mountain Co-Pack (delayed run on May 28), 40% moves to Hollow Brook Foods at +$0.18/unit. Keeps Amazon FBA in stock through Jun 17. PO #1142 drafted to Hollow Brook, awaiting your approval.
Lane 12 (Burlington, VT → Dallas 3PL) is running at 14.2% of landed revenue vs a 9.0% baseline — Sweetwater Logistics has been creeping six weeks running, $6,400/mo of drift. RFQ drafted to Cardinal Freight, Saia, and ArcBest; brief for your sign-off is in Needs you.
Riverstone Foods (organic chicken — COA expires Jun 4), Stowe Bone & Marrow (beef bones — Jun 6), Champlain Sea Salt (Jun 8). Each email threaded onto the last conversation with that supplier; one click sends all three.
Chased PO-4421 with Northeast Bottling, got a reply
Northeast Bottling confirmed the 9,000-unit glass-jar restock will arrive at Green Mountain Co-Pack by Jun 6. Means the delayed Classic Chicken run is firm for May 28, no further slip.
Pinged Cardinal Freight on a late LTL inbound to TX 3PL
BOL #CF-99281 was 1 day past its scheduled arrival. Cardinal replied within the hour — driver routed around weather, new ETA today 4:30p. No customer impact; logged the delay against the carrier scorecard.
Flagged a 6% bone-cost increase at Stowe Bone & Marrow
Quarterly price list came in 6% above last quarter on the beef-bone line. Forge logged the change against the unit-cost model and dropped a note to Sage to revisit Classic Beef margins before the next Green Mountain run.
Opened a dispute on Sweetwater invoice SW-22910
Invoice billed at quoted spot rate + $1,840 of unexplained accessorials. Marigold matched against the BOL, drafted the dispute, and filed it. $4,310 in billing errors recovered YTD across the 3 carriers.
The supply side is where the crew does the most work and you stay at the boundary: Sage runs the co-packers, Pier runs freight, Forge runs the suppliers, Marigoldaudits the bills. Four people's worth of coordination — emails, chases, schedules, COAs, lane checks — done by the workforce, surfaced to you only when a decision is yours to make.