Commodity Management
Hinds Feat Advisors provides strategic direction as well as tactical advice to optimize your sourcing, supply chain management, and logistics. Our structured approach at each step, right from supplier selection and contracting, through the entire supply chain, ensures that production and operation schedules run smoothly and capital invested in stocks is used optimally. Work with us for effective commodity management of raw materials and performance management of vendors.

Our commodity services include:
  • Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Tactical Buying Advisory
  • Supplier Selection, Negotiation & Planning
  • Performance Management

Client Use Cases & Results

  • Upstream Producer, ENERGY - Contract services as Interim CEO for private equity owned $75-100MM/yr revenue upstream producer.  Pushed culture to focus on operating cash flow.  Comprehensive transformation of company operations resulting in (1) breakeven performance at $35/bbl oil in generally higher cost fields, (2) lowered LOE by 20% in first 90 day period while maintaining production and (3)  lowered overhead by 50% over 6 months..  Refocused E&P strategy on infill low capital opportunities with a projected 3X return on investment and increase in daily production of 10%.  Renegotiated finance package adding 18 month operating runway.  

  • Natural Gas Company, ENERGY - Contract services as Interim President & CFO for private equity owned $35-65MM/yr revenue gas producer.  Cultural transformation of company employees to think in production required to pay for each spend, resulting in: (1) lowered LOE by 45% while maintaining production,  achieving a sustainable LOE of $1.00/MMBTU, (2) moved to outsourcing of certain functions leading to $4MM in annual savings in overhead and (3) implemented data analytics and cloud based IT strategy.  Renegotiated finance package to more favorable terms, Marked some 25,000MMBtu/d of natural gas.  

  • Upstream Oil/Gas Production Company, ENERGY - Contract services as Interim CFO for privately owned upstream oil and gas producer.  Reduced LOE by $2/BBL, reduced rebills by 50% and collected over $35MM in suspended revenue.  Marked 10,000BBL/d in oil achieving $3 uplift per barrel. ​