Jay Ahrens Consulting

E-Commerce Operations Consulting

You built a selling business. Now the back end is holding it back.

I work with Amazon, eBay, and Walmart sellers to get their warehouse organized, their inventory accurate, and their ordering strategy out of reactive mode. I've run these operations myself — I know what actually breaks and why.

Why Work With Me

Built for operators, not committees.

At peak, I was managing an 18,000 sq ft warehouse, a team of four, and around 2,500 active SKUs across Amazon, eBay, and Walmart — with the operation grossing roughly $3 million a year. Inventory accuracy was a recurring problem. Ordering was reactive. The warehouse worked fine until the SKU count doubled and then it stopped working.

If your counts are off, your ordering is reactive, and the warehouse works fine until it doesn't — that's exactly the situation I started from.

  • Fifteen years operating across Amazon, eBay, and Walmart — including international marketplaces
  • No account manager. You work directly with me on everything.
  • Recommendations built around how your operation actually runs, not a pre-built framework
  • No paid work starts without a free 30-minute operations review

Services

The problems I work on

Most sellers I work with have overlapping problems. We usually start wherever the pain is loudest and build from there.

Warehouse Organization

Physical layout, bin locations, receiving process, and pick-and-ship flow. If your team spends time looking for things or counting twice, there's a faster way.

Inventory Management

Quantity audits, cycle counts, and a clear view of what's selling, what's sitting, and what's costing you shelf space. Knowing what you actually have changes how you operate.

Reorder & Ordering Strategy

Reorder points, order quantities, and a system that tells you what to buy before you run out — or before you over-commit to inventory that won't move.

Marketplace Operations

Listing workflows, order management, and multi-channel coordination across Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. Less manual work, fewer mistakes, more consistent fulfillment.

Recent Work

What this usually looks like.

Inventory rationalization, ~2,400 SKUs

One operation I ran had roughly $400,000 tied up across about 2,400 SKUs, but a large portion of that inventory barely moved. After digging through the numbers, we found that hundreds of products were selling less than once per month while still consuming shelf space, cycle count time, listing maintenance, and cash. We aggressively discontinued slow movers, rebuilt reorder points around actual sales patterns and seasonality, and stopped overreacting to short-term spikes. A year later the business was doing roughly the same annual sales volume with substantially fewer SKUs and far less cash tied up in inventory.

Cycle counting redesign, multi-channel warehouse

At one point we had someone spending several hours a day cycle counting inventory just to stay ahead of oversells and receiving mistakes. The biggest issues usually weren't complicated — unreceived purchase orders, returns that never got restocked properly, or hidden master cases sitting in the wrong location. We eventually rebuilt the process around frequency and risk instead of counting everything equally. Empty bins were checked daily, fast movers were counted multiple times a week, and untouched inventory was reviewed separately on a long-cycle basis. The result was a system that caught the same operational problems with a fraction of the labor.

How It Works

No long onboarding. No intake decks.

We start with the actual operation, not a questionnaire. Here's how an engagement runs.

01

Review

We walk through your warehouse, your inventory records, and how you're currently ordering. I'm looking at the real situation — not the version that ends up in a presentation.

02

Diagnose

Once I understand the setup, I map what's creating problems and in what order to fix them. Overstock, dead inventory, chaotic storage, reactive ordering — we prioritize what's costing you the most.

03

Fix It

We work through it together. SOPs get written. Systems get configured. I stay involved until things are actually running differently, not just documented.

Get an honest read on your operation.

We'll go through your current setup and I'll give you an honest read on what's worth fixing and what can wait. No obligation, no pitch deck.