Sunripe Certified Brands

During my time consulting with Sunripe Certified Brands (Pacific Tomato Growers), I led a project to optimize a key operation cost by developing and innovating a new product solution with foreign manufacturers and suppliers. 

Context / Problem: 

Wood stakes had been getting worse. Prices were increasing and becoming more volatile while lifetimes were decreasing from poor quality, low density, different chemical treatments, fungal degradation, etc. 

Solution: 

I led rapid iterations to optimize costs, success-metrics for testing, and product design variations to hone in on ideal fiberglass stake solutions. I coordinated foreign manufacturers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, agriculture team, data/accounting team, & and purchasing team through several design iterations to identify an ideal/novel solution that has since seen an explosion of growth and competition due to cost savings and market opportunity.