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Harborline — VP Ops discovery

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1 · Scenario
2 · Brief
3 · Stakeholders

3 stakeholders in this room

Dana Ruiz · VP of Operations
Dry, operational, interrupts slogans. Asks what breaks on Monday at Fontana.
Chris Pell · Director of Warehouse, Fontana
Concrete and impatient. Talks in shifts, headcount, and what happened last Saturday.
Mei Chen · Finance business partner, Ops
Quiet, exact, will ask you to repeat a number and name the cost center.

Room title

What does a win look like?

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Difficulty

Friendly

A champion is in the room. Pushback is polite and recoverable.

Realistic

Mixed temperature. At least one person will test every claim.

Hard

No free passes. Stacked objections, time pressure, and a dealbreaker.

Conversation language

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Deck (PDF)

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Brief / talk track

You are the account executive for Meridian Flow, a warehouse execution layer that sits on top of an existing WMS. This is a first discovery with Harborline Logistics, a regional 3PL that just missed Q2 OTIF at 91% against a 96% customer commitment.

Harborline runs three sites on a ten-year-old Manhattan WMS plus a homegrown labor spreadsheet. They are not shopping a rip-and-replace. They asked for this call after a missed peak at the Fontana site: overtime blew the labor plan, and two retail accounts put them on a performance watch.

Your talk track:
- Meridian Flow overlays slotting, labor standards, and exception routing without replacing the WMS.
- Named 3PL reference: Westfork Fulfillment cut overtime 18% in 90 days on a similar Manhattan stack.
- Pilot shape: one site, 60 days, success = OTIF back above 96% and overtime hours down 12% versus the prior quarter. List price. No implementation army.
- Integration is a thin adapter their on-site admin already knows how to run. You will not staff a six-month professional-services engagement.

What a win is not: a pricing conversation, a multi-site rollout, or "send me a deck." Dana will test whether you understand the incumbent process. Chris will protect the floor. Mei will ask where the money comes from this fiscal year.

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