About

I'm Darren Oates and I'm here for when you want potential customers to come to you

B2B Supply Chain Writer

Identifying new opportunities can be time consuming and expensive.

Your preference is always for prospective customers to come to you.

Offering potential customers original content achieves this.

When you stand out as an industry thought leader you attract potential clients.

Engaging copy or an original content offering leads them to willingly engage and explore ways you can help them achieve their business objectives.

…and yours too.

What do you get?

A B2B writer with 27 years management experience working directly within transport, material planning, procurement, production planning, sales and operations planning, integrated business planning, business process re-engineering, high-level supply planning, customer service, demand planning, logistics and warehousing, food manufacturing, retail supply chain network planning, pharmaceutical manufacturing, primary packaging, short shelf-life beverage manufacturing and distribution.
Someone with first-hand experience in international Supply Chain Management earned across Australia, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.
A story-teller who’s a self-published novelist working on a sequel.
Content that’s ‘right first time‘ across the E2E supply chain, transport and logistics fields.
No delays while I try to pass myself off as a knowledgeable writer on finance, on-line dating, dentistry, time-shares, astrology or holiday options in the Maldives, …or any other field that a reader with knowledge of those topics would see through in a flash (…although I do confess to writing content on tax reform once as detailed below).
The benefit of a B2B writer of supply chain and logistics copy and content who through years of blood, sweat and tears knows and understand the differences between MRP, MPS, DRP, NPD, SAP, S&OP, IBP, FMCG, LCL, FCL, RCCP and ERP ok!
A fluent speaker of Microsoft Excel, preferring INDEX/MATCH’ing over VLOOKUP’ing.
The handy skill of someone who can speak enough French to get into trouble, but not quite enough to get out of it again (...but working on it).
A reader of both fiction and non-fiction.
A relationship based on implicit trust that remains solid until someone demonstrates it’s not reciprocated
An INTJ if you’re into personality types.

Supply Chains I've worked with

...and a little bit more about me

Back in my final year of High School I found my calling – writing and self-publishing.
During that final year I was driven to handwrite, market and sell my first book (…ok, booklet).
In plain English I explained the various options of the day for Australian tax reform.

Yes, tax reform!

A courageous choice indeed for a first foray into the world of self-publishing.

I marketed my book (…oh ok, booklet) as the indispensable guide on the topic for our final exam.

A month later the morning of our final Economics exam dawned. Outside it was wet and miserable. It matched how I felt. Would the exam paper include an essay question on Australian Tax reform? More than a dozen students were relying on it. None more so than me. At 9:00am we were told to begin. I turned the page to scan the questions and let out a triumphant cry of “Yes!” The examiners didn’t let me down. They obliged me with a question that fitted the book (ok, booklet) like a surgeon’s hand in a latex glove. After an ancient exam supervisor to warn me against further outbursts I was able to put my head down and finish the paper.

Three hours later I walked out of that exam hall into brilliant sunshine and the beaming smiles of a dozen happy customers.

That was it. The die was set. A successful future in writing and publishing lay before me.

But like many things in life, that pre-destined future didn’t turn out like that.

After studying Economics at university life took a different path. Twenty-five years ago a career in supply chain beckoned. During that time the noisy writing bug inside me kept calling. It culminated in a full length novel “Getting Dunne“. It’s the first in a trilogy. The second novel is work in process.

And today?

Today, I’m a writer.

…a writer for two;
– A novelist for me; and,
– A B2B supply chain writer for you…