LeanChain
Solutions for profitable growth
LeanChain is a company focused on providing solutions to customers in three key areas 1) End to End Supply Chain 2) Change Management and 3) Operations Excellence. Our primary customers are small and midsize firms in the state of Wisconsin and in the mid-west area. LeanChain undertakes projects that are designed to address gaps in the above three areas, in collaboration with our customers and resolving them to achieve their goals.
Our
Story
LeanChain was founded in January 2025 by Nityanand Rao with the aim to serve small businesses in becoming more operationally efficient, improving their supply chain to achieve cost reduction, superior performance and enable these companies to better fulfill their customer's needs.
Services
Strategic Sourcing
&
Risk Mitigation
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Developing and implementing sourcing strategy for the business across all categories.
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Establishing sourcing strategy for a category for entire lifecycle from development phase to service in the field.
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Establishing strategic partnerships with key suppliers or Customers
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Implementing comprehensive plan that will mitigate risks from various market factors including geographic risks, market power and technology risks.
Operations
Excellence
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Implementing Operations strategy to ensure performance and attainment of goals and sustainment.
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Establishing value streams and value stream mapping.
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Implementing and executing Six Sigma methodologies.
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Developing and implementing standard work across the company including Management processes, Metrics, processes, capability building and people development.
Cost
Reduction
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Developing wholistic plan for cost reduction with a detailed glide path.
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Leading cost reduction workshops to identify cost reduction opportunities.
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Implementing projects to drive cost out.
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Executing low-cost country sourcing.
Change
Management
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Providing support thru all stages of driving change from the WHY to the WHAT and the HOW.
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Setting up processes, metrics and tools while empowering people to sustain change.
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Developing a playbook to implement change.
About the owner
Nityanand (Nitya) Rao
I started my career as a Quality Engineer in an engine manufacturing plant in 1993. Since then, over the 30 years, I have worked in Aerospace, Trucking and Trailer manufacturing, worked in large public corporation as well as in small privately owned company. I have led global procurement teams, multi-site operations and driven lasting change as an organization and an operation.
My aim is to leverage my experience and learnings to passionately serve small companies in addressing their problems and help them get better and bigger.
