Ramp Ops Consulting Group | Operations Consulting
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Operations Consulting for Growing Product Businesses

Streamlined Product Operations, Measurable Results

We help product-based businesses identify and resolve operational gaps across forecasting, sourcing, production, inventory, and fulfillment to reduce inefficiencies, control costs, improve profitability, and build scalable systems for sustainable growth.

  • Forecasting & sourcing
  • Production & inventory
  • Fulfillment that scales
Christabel Barnaby, founder and operations consultant, smiling with a clipboard in a warehouse

7+ years

in manufacturing, supply chain & distribution

Where Operations Get Stuck

Growth rarely breaks from lack of effort. It breaks from lack of structure.

If any of these sound familiar, your business has outgrown the way it was set up. That is normal, and it is fixable.

Orders ship late or wrong

Missed ship dates, wrong items and reshipments eat into margin and customer trust.

Inventory you can't trust

Counts never match, stockouts surprise you and cash sits in the wrong products.

Everything runs through you

Decisions wait on the founder, so the business only moves as fast as one person.

Processes live in people's heads

No written steps means every new hire learns differently and mistakes repeat.

Costs creep up as you grow

Shipping, labor and rework costs rise faster than revenue and nobody knows why.

Tools that don't connect

Spreadsheets, apps and inboxes that never line up, so work gets done twice.

A Practical Path to Better Operations

Three steps. No jargon. Changes you can see.

Every engagement follows the same simple path, sized to where your business is right now.

Team mapping an operations workflow on a whiteboard
  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We map how work actually moves today, from order to delivery, and pinpoint where time, money and accuracy are lost.

  2. 02

    Design

    We build clear workflows, SOPs and simple tracking that fit your size, your tools and the way your team works.

  3. 03

    Implement

    We roll the changes out with your team, train the people doing the work and measure the results together.

Not sure where to start?

A free 30-minute call is enough to spot your biggest bottleneck.

In the Field

Operational Improvements in Action

Practical operational systems help teams follow consistent processes, improve fulfillment visibility, and keep orders moving.

Distribution center team working at production tables with an organized fulfillment workflow
A distribution team working through staged packing tables and labeled shelving.

Case Studies

Real operational problems, worked through step by step.

Case Study 01

From Guesswork to a Weekly Forecast: Ending Material Shortages at a Fast-Growing Startup

May 28 · Written by Christabel Barnaby

Company overview

An early-stage diagnostics startup shipping at-home test kits across six SKUs. Kits were packed by hand, starting in the company’s garage at around 300 kits per week. Over about 1.5 years, volume grew to around 5,000 kits per week. (approximate figures)

The challenge

Raw materials ran short about once a month. The business had no demand forecast, so production and purchasing relied on guesswork, and as a startup it had no historical data to forecast from. Ordering sat with the owners, and requests were often forgotten or placed late, so materials arrived after they were needed. Supplier lead times ran about 1.5 to 2 weeks.

Key result

Material shortages stopped. (observed, not measured)

Case Study 02

Closing the Tracking Gap: Cutting Reship Requests at a Fast-Growing Startup

May 28 · Written by Christabel Barnaby

Company overview

An early-stage diagnostics startup shipping at-home test kits across six SKUs, growing from roughly 300 to roughly 5,000 kits per week over about 1.5 years. (approximate figures)

The challenge

The company was getting at least 5 to 10 reship requests a week, most from customers who said their kit never arrived. The owners’ default response was to send a replacement. That cost a second kit and shipment each time and left the cause untouched.

Key result

Reship requests dropped from about 5 to 10 per week to about 1 to 5 per week. (approximate recollection)

Christabel Barnaby reviewing an order checklist on a clipboard inside a fulfillment warehouse

Christabel reviewing an order checklist on a fulfillment floor.

Built Around Real Operational Work

Advice shaped on the floor, not in a boardroom.

Ramp Ops Consulting Group was founded by Christabel Barnaby, an operations consultant with more than seven years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain and distribution.

She has worked inside the processes most growing businesses struggle with: receiving, storing, picking, packing and shipping product on time. That experience is why every recommendation is practical, specific and built to work on a busy Tuesday, not just on paper.

  • Hands-on support, not slide decks
  • Built for small and growing teams
  • Measured in orders shipped, not hours billed
  • Plain-language systems anyone can follow

Ready to see where your operations are getting stuck?

Book a free 30-minute clarity call. You will leave with at least one clear next step, whether we work together or not.

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