$50-$140/hr supply chain and operations work, on your schedule
You review AI-drafted demand plans, logistics strategy, and ops decisions the way you would a plan before committing, flagging the forecast that ignores lead time and the inventory call that strands cash. Remote, a few hours a week, paid hourly.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a planner's eye on a forecast that ignores lead time spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Supply Chain & Operations questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Yes. Procurement is where model output is least reliable, because it treats supplier selection as pure cost optimization while ignoring risk concentration, geographic dependency, or mid-disruption renegotiation. Tasks include evaluating a model's supplier scorecards, critiquing total-cost-of-ownership analyses, and flagging where a sourcing strategy ignores supply continuity or category leverage.
They are grounded in how planning actually works, not frameworks. You might review a model's demand plan and flag where it conflates forecast error with bias, misapplies a causal model to lumpy demand, or produces a consensus number that violates capacity. IBP, Kinaxis, or O9 experience applies directly, since those are the systems the output reflects.
The CPIM signals depth, but your current operational judgment matters most for eligibility. Operations management, including capacity planning, throughput, scheduling, and Lean/Six Sigma improvement, is in scope. Tasks often require judging whether a model's ops recommendation accounts for line changeover time, OEE variation, or shop-floor dynamics MRP misses.
Yes. You do not need a broker license to evaluate a model's trade compliance reasoning. Hands-on HTS classification, CTPAT management, or landed cost experience is exactly what these tasks need. The work is finding where a model applies the wrong GRI, misclassifies a finished good versus a component, or ignores a free-trade-agreement provision: applied knowledge, not licensed practice.
Yes, and in several categories it is specifically valuable. People who ran network design across clients, negotiated carrier contracts, or optimized ocean, air, and ground freight bring a cross-industry view single-company planners lack. Evaluating a model's routing guides, rate-benchmark analyses, or RFP responses for a transportation bid suits that background.
Why your expertise matters
Today's supply chain AI treats each node in isolation: it ignores lead-time variability, skips landed cost, and runs a textbook EOQ where a real network needs a defensible reorder point. Catching that takes someone who has lived a port disruption or a sole-source failure. Your corrections teach these tools the cascading trade-offs that make a plan hold under stress.
How pay works
Rates toward the top of the $50-$140 band reflect deep specialization: S&OP facilitation, import/export compliance, network design modeling, or supplier quality under IATF 16949. Work is fully remote, paid by the verified hour with no minimum, and you are paid only after your submission passes review.
What the work looks like
A sample of the supply chain and operations work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Flag where a model's safety stock calc for a high-mix electronics line ignores supplier lead-time variance and forecast error at the SKU level.
- Identify the single-source exposures, sub-tier dependencies, or geopolitical factors a model's supplier risk assessment misclassified or omitted.
- Score a model's S&OP narratives for whether demand signals, inventory, and capacity are synthesized into a coherent recommendation.
- Write a worked landed-cost analysis for an ocean-to-air mode shift, showing how duty, transit time, and carrying cost interact.
- Audit a model's HTS classification rationale and mark where the binding-ruling logic, GRI, or country-of-origin call is unsupported.
- Compare two AI-drafted network redesign scenarios and critique which total-cost trade-offs and throughput assumptions are unrealistic.
Specialties we match
Supply Chain & Operations projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- S&OP / IBP facilitation
- Demand planning and statistical forecasting
- Inventory optimization (EOQ, safety stock, ABC/XYZ)
- Supplier qualification and SCAR management
- Import/export compliance and HTS classification
- Network design and DC footprint modeling
- Transportation management (TMS, modal selection)
- Lean / Six Sigma (VSM, DMAIC, kaizen)
- ERP and WMS configuration (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
- Contract manufacturing and 3PL governance
- SIOP and capacity planning
- Risk mapping and supply continuity planning
