Computer Consultant - Rockford Consulting

<BODY aLink=#ffcc00 bgColor=#ffffff link=#990000 vLink=#666666> <TABLE align=left border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=490> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=122><IMG alt="Computer Consultant" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif" width="122" height="219"><BR> <IMG alt="Computer Consultant" border=0 src="images/notation.gif" width="127" height="541"> <BR><BR> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Computer Consultant Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <A href="manucons.htm"><img src="images/manuf.gif" alt="Manufacturing Consulting" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="masscons.htm"><img src="images/mass.gif" alt="Mass Customization Consulting" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="cimcons.htm"><img src="images/cim.gif" alt="Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="agilcons.htm"><img src="images/agile.gif" alt="Agile Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="leancons.htm"><img src="images/lean.gif" alt="Lean Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="cellcons.htm"><img src="images/cell.gif" alt="Cellular Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="distcons.htm"><img src="images/distrib.gif" alt="Distribution" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="purcons.htm"><img src="images/purch.gif" alt="Purchasing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="stracons.htm"><img src="images/strategy.gif" alt="Strategic Planning" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="itcons.htm"><img src="images/infotech.gif" alt="Information Technology" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="supcons.htm"><img src="images/supply.gif" alt="Supply Chain Management" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="outcons.htm"><img src="images/outsour.gif" alt="Outsourcing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a></font> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>General Information</B></FONT> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <BR><BR><A href="about.htm"><img src="images/aboutus.gif" alt="About Us" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="ia.htm"><img src="images/intlalli.gif" alt="International Alliances" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="qualify.htm"><img src="images/qualif.gif" alt="Qualifications" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="articles.htm"><img src="images/articles.gif" alt="Articles" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="succes.htm"><img src="images/success.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="speaking.htm"><img src="images/speak.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="seminars.htm"><img src="images/seminar.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="news.htm"><img src="images/news.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="employop.htm"><img src="images/employ.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="contact.htm"><img src="images/contact.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <BR><BR> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://RockfordConsulting.com/computer-consultant.htm"><B>|</B>Computer Consultant<B>|</B></A></font> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Computer Consultant</B><BR><BR> <B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"> <H5><CENTER><B>Computer Consultant Services Offered: </B></CENTER></H5> <p align="justify">Whether you are a discrete product or process manufacturer, make-to-order or repetitive, or a distributor, <b>Rockford Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing throughput time, reducing lead times, increasing capacity, reduce costs, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right information technology strategy and ERP system for your company.</b> <BR><BR> We are a boutique consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management.  We serve companies wishing to become world-class performers.  <b>We get results!!!</b><BR><BR> Our history with IT and Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems reaches back to the late 1970's when ERP systems were in their infancy, and companies were running on IBM Sys/36 and 370 operating systems. We  supplied one of the major software houses with order entry, inventory planning, and inventory control specifications for its first manufacturing software modules. <br> <br> Later, we worked with a sister company that provided specialized machine tools using Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) as its key design and production strategy. These techniques were taken to clients for applying both ERP and CIM to the workplace. As a result we had early, hands-on experience with ERP and CIM applications, and develop successful implementation processes, techniques and methods, such as SDLC.<br> <br> Since then <b>Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish to achieve world class performance and become market leaders with IT strategies. IT is a crucial part of every company's infrastructure. </b><br> <br> Today, we facilitate clients with assessing current processes and systems, ERP cost/benefits, identifying their functional requirements, developing RFP's, searching for candidates, evaluating responses to RFP's, selecting, implementing state-of-the-art ERP systems, integrating new systems with streamlined processes, and avoiding common pitfalls that regularly occur during these projects. (Please see our white paper <a href="12sinart.htm">The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation.)</a> <br> <br> We are strong with ERP implementations, because we are intimate with manufacturing and distribution processes at the detailed process and work instruction level. <b>Contact us <a href="contact.htm">(click here) </a>for more information on how we can improve your operations.</b> <br><br>These are the various services and applications we offer, as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, for IT and ERP implementation efforts in both manufacturing and distribution:<br> </p> <ul> <li>Inventory Reduction</li> <li>Business Cycle Time Reduction</li> <li>Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reduction</li> <li>Implementation Cost Over-run Avoidance</li> <li>Implementation Schedules Delays Avoidance</li> <li>Increased Productivity</li> <li>Increased Business Cycle Throughput</li> <li>Increased Project Control</li> <li>Avoidance of Wrong ERP Package Selection</li> <li>Effective Technology Deployment</li> <li>Legacy System Upgrades</li> <li>ERP Decision-making Facilitation</li> <li><a href="top_management_facilitation.htm" target="main">Top Management Facilitation</a></li> <li><a href="information_technology_strategic_planning.htm" target="main">Information Technology Strategic Planning</a></li> <li>Technology Analysis</li> <li><a href="syssem.htm" target="main">Business Systems (ERP) Performance Audit</a></li> <li>Business Process/ERP Integration</li> <li>Information Systems Effectiveness Analysis</li> <li>Functional Needs Assessments</li> <li>ERP Package Evaluation/Selections</li> <li>Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis</li> <li>Outsource/Inhouse Assessments</li> <li>Organization Evaluation/Design</li> <li>Implementation Facilitation/Navigation</li> <li>Knowledge Management/Engineering</li> <li>Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation</li> <li>Cost/Benefit Analysis</li> <li>Lean Manufacturing/ERP Integration</li> <li>Requirements Planning System Evaluation</li> <li>Project Management</li> </font> </ul> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/computer-consultant.htm"><B>|</B>Computer Consultant<B>|</B></A> <P><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></FONT> <BR><P align=justify><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2>Rockford Consulting Group is located in Rockford, IL., a city with a substantial manufacturing and machine tool history. An Illinois corporation, our Computer Consultant specialize in purchasing, manufacturing, outsourcing, manufacturing and distribution operations management consulting. As companies search for ways to react to intense competitive pressures in the next decade, our firm offers a unique group of integrated dynamic state-of-the-art services to help clients develop high performance capability. We do not represent any commercial product or service that would be regarded as value-add. We provide high quality work to our clients and do not engage services for which we are not qualified. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <font size="2">Rockford Consulting Group has a cadre of the best consultants in the world today, providing high quality professionalism through the use of experience and innovation. We subscribe to the Institute of Management Consultants Code of Professional Conduct. We strive to enhance the integrity and image of the consulting profession. All consultants engaged on projects adhere to its principles. Whenever possible we will use consultants certified in their particular specialty area. </font> </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <font size="2">Certification ensures that a specialist has substantial prior experience in their specialty, and their competencies have been tested by the IMC, and verified by a significant number of clients. This assures our clients that we are assigning the highest qualified consultants in the profession. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <font size="2">Specialists on a client assignment may have up to 30+ years consulting experience. Rockford Consulting Group applies concepts and technologies as the situation warrants, which will result in the ultimate benefit to our clients. We treat technologies as tools in a tool-chest, and use them when they offer practical solutions and achievable results. We believe that each client situation is unique, with its own unique set of solutions.</p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">A fresh objective view is always maintained, with no preconceived solutions or fads. We develop practical and implementable manufacturing management solutions, based on decades of experience. Using team-building techniques, we facilitate the process of developing technical and organizational strategies and transform them into executable, and measurable short-term actions. Our clients learn to sustain the process, gaining the ownership required for success.</p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">All of our staff have direct, hands-on operational experience in early parts of their careers. Many consultants were engineers, machine operators, manufacturing engineering managers, and purchasing managers. This provides sensitivity and insight to operational issues; i.e., they know how factories and businesses work. </p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">We do not employ consultants inexperienced in manufacturing, and/or distribution. Most of our Computer Consultant staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. </p> <BR><P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> We work primarily with publicly and privately owned corporations, or divisions of large corporations, from $30mm to $400mm in sales revenue. Our hands-on experience spans a wide range of environments, which reach from business services, consumer products, through high-tech. Industries served are service, automotive, aerospace, durable consumer products, rubber, plastics, electronics, off-road vehicles, and distribution.</p> <BR> <BR><CENTER><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/computer-consultant.htm">Computer Consultant</A> </font></CENTER> <BR> <CENTER><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT> </CENTER><BR> <CENTER><P align=justify><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2>Forward Requests For Proposals To:</CENTER><BR><CENTER>Rockford Consulting Group<BR>Century Plaza<BR>Suite 206<