Jonathan Eaton

Jonathan is a Partner in Grant Thornton’s Advisory Services, Transformation Practice where he leads the firm’s Operations Practice.

With more than 29 years of Supply Chain and Operations consulting experience, Jonathan has spent most of his career advising large multinational companies and middle market companies on how to transform their supply chains. His industry experience covers Consumer & Industrial Products, Food & Beverage, Retail, Auto Aftermarket, Auto OEM, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Technology, and Financial Services. He also has deep experience with turnarounds, post-merger integration, divestitures, and technology implementation.

Jonathan is most recognized and sought after for his ability to help clients define their supply chain strategy and operating model in response to changing market conditions and other disruptive forces and his ability to solution more broadly by bringing the right capabilities to his clients. He helps them transform their operations and the end-to-end supply chain to reduce working capital and provide improved customer satisfaction while balancing inventory and service commitments. The outcome is a reduction in their total supply chain cost to serve, the mitigation of unforeseen supply chain risk, and ideally – revenue growth and margin acceleration. He is also an expert in advanced supply chain planning, inventory reduction, and enterprise cost reduction. And he has extensive knowledge of the application of leading sourcing and supply chain optimization technologies and the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to optimize supply chains.

Jonathan most recently worked at Chainalytics, LLC where he was an Industry Supply Chain Partner focused on the supply chain issues of the firm’s largest and most complex clients.  Prior to that, Jonathan was a Senior Director at IHS with global responsibility for the Supply Chain / MRO Intelligence Practice.  He previously held management roles in Operations and Value Creation at Deloitte and Ernst & Young.