Our History
From 2004 to the #1 Supply Chain & Operations Consultant in the U.S.
Today
SGS Maine Pointe, a member of the SGS Group, is a global supply chain and operations consulting firm trusted by chief executives and private equity firms to drive compelling economic returns for their companies.
We deliver accelerated, sustainable improvements in EBITDA, cash and growth across their procurement, logistics, operations and data analytics. Our hands-on implementation experts work with executives and their teams to rapidly break through functional silos and transform the plan-buy-make-move digital supply chain to deliver the greatest ethical value to customers and stakeholders at the lowest cost and risk to business. We call this Total Value Optimization (TVO)™.
SGS Maine Pointe’s engagements are results-driven and deliver between 4:1 to 8:1 ROI. We are so confident in our work and our processes that we provide a unique 100% guarantee of engagement fees based on annualized savings.
2024
SGS Maine Pointe announces Joseph Esteves as CEO
As the company reaches it 20-year milestone, Esteves, a hands-on leader in private equity and operational consulting, will lead the executive team and build on SGS Maine Pointe's history of innovative and sustainable performance improvement solutions.
Esteves has held multiple leadership roles since he initially joined SGS Maine Pointe in 2013. He takes on the role of CEO after a highly successful stint as SGS Maine Pointe's Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Private Equity. During his tenure as Head of Private Equity, he worked closely with PE sponsors and middle market companies as a trusted advisor, identifying, developing and implementing supply chain and operational transformations which have led to billions of dollars in increased valuations.
2023
In September 2023, SGS acquired the remaining 40% stake in Maine Pointe, LLC., consolidating its initial 60% interest obtained in June 2019. This strategic action highlighted SGS's commitment to delivering comprehensive supply chain optimization and consulting solutions, ensuring sustainable growth and success in the industry.
"The Total Value Optimization (TVO) Framework, resting on a foundation of data analytics, is the best approach we have seen to achieve integrated supply chain excellence in logistics, operations and procurement.”
-J Paul Dittmann, Executive Director of GSCI, PhD
2021
SGS Acquires Majority Stake in Maine Pointe
In September 2021, SGS acquired the remaining 40% stake in Maine Pointe, LLC., consolidating its initial 60% interest obtained in June 2019. This strategic action highlighted SGS's commitment to delivering comprehensive supply chain optimization and consulting solutions, ensuring sustainable growth and success in the industry.
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2016
TVO Momentum.
In the fall of 2016, Maine Pointe became a member of the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI), University of Tennessee.
The GSCI is a research and knowledge hub that helps companies deliver maximum value through supply chain management. It is industry's connection to the researchers and students with the Haslam College of Business's internationally recognized supply chain program.
The first of a series of GSCI white papers in the Supply Chain Strategy series validated Maine Pointe's TVO methodology.
In the same year, Steve Bowen released his debut book, "Total Value Optimization: Transforming your global supply chain into a competitive weapon".
2015
Total Value Optimization™ Appears
In November 2015, building on the methodology established over the previous decade, Maine Pointe launched its Total Value Optimization (TVO)™ approach and branding.
In the same year, as the big data explosion continued unabated, Maine Pointe consolidated its data analytics capabilities to help CEOs and senior executives visualize and realize the power of data in an optimized, demand-driven digital supply chain.
Since its launch, TVO's differentiated, step-by-step approach to digital supply chain transformation has earned Maine Pointe multiple wards and received the highest endorsement from the Global Supply Chain Institute.
2004 - 2014
A supply chain and operations consulting firm with a difference.
Maine Pointe was founded in the US as a result of the simple observation that senior executives and private equity firms needed specialists to help them drive measurable operational improvements, fast. The purpose of the company was (and remains to this day) to deliver compelling economic returns to our clients and our people through accelerated performance improvements in EBITDA, cash and growth.
To achieve this, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Bowen, invested in building a results-driven implementation firm underpinned with a culture and set of values clients could trust. Those values are: character, service excellence, personal growth, accountability and teamwork.
Over the next decade, Maine Pointe pursued its vision of becoming the world's most sought-after supply chain and operations consulting firm. The company built a reputation as a specialist in driving EBITDA, cash and growth improvements across the areas of procurement, operations, logistics, data analytics and leader and organization improvement (LOI), expanding its global reach across thirty countries in North America, Europe and Asia and delivering billions of dollars of measurable benefits to clients.