We are thrilled to introduce our AI-powered TVO Control Tower™ to deliver a rapid return on investment (ROI) across procurement, logistics and operations.
Maine Pointe by SGS, a global leader in supply chain and operational performance, has introduced the Total Value Optimization™ (TVO) Control Tower to help organizations gain control of complex, fragmented and data-driven supply chains.
Combining advanced AI with deep human expertise, the TVO Control Tower empowers the C-level to make faster, more strategic decisions based on real-time, actionable insights.
The solution integrates seamlessly with Maine Pointe’s Combined Intelligence (CI) model, which fuses AI-driven analytics with the hands-on experience of industry practitioners to deliver measurable impact and sustained value creation.
Meeting the new demands of executive leadership
Across industries, executive leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver operational visibility, resilience and efficiency in real-time. As supply chain volatility, inflationary pressures and sustainability mandates reshape the global business landscape, financial and operational executives are prioritizing data transparency, predictive analytics and cross-functional collaboration as strategic imperatives.
“Executives today face unprecedented challenges in achieving real-time visibility and control across their entire supply chain and operations,” said Joseph Esteves, CEO of Maine Pointe.
“Our AI-powered TVO Control Tower provides a unified, data-driven lens that turns complexity into clarity, accelerating performance improvement, mitigating risk and enabling more confident decision-making.”
The TVO Control Tower was purpose-built to meet these challenges, providing a unified, data-driven view of performance across procurement, logistics and operations, transforming information into insight and insight into measurable results.
Transforming performance across industries
The TVO Control Tower is already delivering transformational results for leading organizations worldwide:
- Private capital: partnered with a leading North American private equity firm to give it full procurement spend visibility and actionable insights across 19 of their portfolio companies – identifying over USD 100 million in untapped EBITDA
- Oil and gas: partnered with one of North America’s largest energy producers to enhance cost visibility and supplier transparency – achieving a 10:1 ROI and identifying more than USD 250 million in annualized benefits
- Agriculture and industrial manufacturing: enabled a global agricultural equipment and industrial products manufacturer to achieve tens of millions in EBITDA improvements through network optimization and advanced business planning
- Chemicals and materials: helped a specialty chemicals company gain real-time logistics visibility and reduce costs by 6-8% of total logistics spend, while accelerating digital maturity and improving SIOP performance
- Food services procurement: supported a major group purchasing organization in the food sector with AI-driven analytics that uncovered USD 3 million in annualized benefits and improved EBITDA by 20% in just eight weeks
Core capabilities
- Planning: inventory and working capital analytics, S&OP executive insights
- Procurement: spend profile analytics, established product costing, eProcurement, procurement performance analytics, supplier risk identification
- Logistics: transportation optimization, simulation modeling and warehouse analytics
- Operations: manufacturing analytics, labor efficiency analytics, quality analytics
“Our AI models are architected to learn from each client’s unique supply chain configuration and data cadence,” said Nathanael Powrie, Senior Director, Knowledge Management & Data Analytics at Maine Pointe.
“We don’t deploy off-the-shelf algorithms, our analytics engines are trained on client-specific datasets, incorporating both structured and unstructured data sources. This customization enables more accurate forecasting, scenario simulation and decision support, aligned to real-world operating conditions tailored to the industries we serve.”
About Maine Pointe
Maine Pointe is a global supply chain and operations consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses unlock sustainable value, improve efficiency and drive measurable financial results.
Trusted by executives and private equity leaders, Maine Pointe specializes in transforming and optimizing performance across the entire supply chain and driving compelling economic returns for companies.
Its Total Value Optimization™ (TVO) strategy improves cash, growth and resilience across procurement, operations and logistics. Working with executives and their teams, Maine Pointe breaks through functional silos and rapidly transforms the plan-buy-make-move-fulfill supply chain, with an average 6:1 ROI.
Contact us to take control of your supply chain with our TVO Control Tower now.
For more information, please contact:
Nathanael Powrie
Senior Director, Knowledge Management & Data Analytics
Maine Pointe by SGS
t:+1 502 370 5370
About SGS
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Our brand promise – when you need to be sure – underscores our commitment to trust, integrity and reliability, enabling businesses to thrive with confidence. We proudly deliver our expert services through the SGS name and trusted specialized brands, including Brightsight, Bluesign, Maine Pointe and Nutrasource.
SGS is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SGSN (ISIN CH1256740924, Reuters SGSN.S, Bloomberg SGSN:SW).
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