Distribution Consultants - 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="Distribution Consultants" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif" width="122" height="219"><BR><IMG alt="Distribution Consultants" border=0 src="images/notation.gif" width="127" height="541"> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Distribution Consultants Services Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <A href="agilcons.htm"><img src="images/agile.gif" alt="Agile Manufacturing Consultants" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="manucons.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=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> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://RockfordConsulting.com/distribution-consultants.htm"><B>|</B>Distribution Consultants<B>|</B></A> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Distribution Consultants</B></FONT><BR><BR> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <P> <H4><CENTER><B>Distribution Consultants Offered: </B></CENTER></H4> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"> If you are a distributor, <b>Rockford Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing throughput time, reducing lead times, increasing capacity, reducing costs, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right distribution strategy 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!!!<br> <br> </b>Key to the success of an agile supply chain is the speed and flexibility with which parts, information, and decisions flow through an organization. The faster materials, information, and decisions flow through an organization the faster it can respond to the demands of the market.<br><BR> Achieving agility starts with the physical flow of parts, from the point of supply, through the factory, and shipment through agile distribution channels. <b>Agility requires a company to be nimble in its response to changing needs of the market. </b><br><BR> We have proven techniques for successful distribution network design, location selection, logistics optimization, distribution center design, BPR, and ERP implementations that produce measureable, achievable, and substantial financial benefits, as well as substantial productivity increases for our clients.<br> <br> We are strong with distribution implementations, because we are intimate with distribution both at the process and detailed work instruction levels. <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 distribution:<br></p><UL> <li>Value stream Mapping</li> <li>Cycle-time Reductions</li> <li>Inventory Reductions</li> <li>Throughput Time Reductions</li> <li>Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reductions</li> <li>Operating Cost Reductions</li> <li>Cycle-time Reductions</li> <li>Fixed Overhead Cost Reductions</li> <li>Variable Overhead Cost Reductions</li> <li>Substantial Increases in Throughput</li> <li>Physical Flow Improvements</li> <li>Warehouse Design/Simulations</li> <li>Operational Audits</li> <li>Supply Chain Modeling/Simulation</li> <li>Global Sourcing</li> <li>Capacity Planning/Simulation</li> <li>Distribution Requirements Planning</li> <li>Logistics Analysis/Simulation</li> <li>Distribution Channel Design/Simulation</li> <li>Process Design/Simulation</li> <li>Material Handling Design/Simulation</li> <li>Outsource/Reengineer Assessments</li> <li>Supplier Partnership Negotiations</li> <li>Organization Design</li> <li>Business Process Reengineering</li> <li>Logistics/Distribution Assessments</li> <li>Distribution Information Technology</li> <li>Strategic Procurement</li> <li>Materials/Inventory Management</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>ERP Evaluation/Effectiveness Analysis</li> <li>Business Process Evaluation/Reengineering</li> <li>Functional Needs Assessments</li> <li>Development of Requirements Definition Document</li> <li>Development of RFP </li> <li>ERP Package Evaluation/Selections</li> <li>Implementation Planning</li> <li>Implementation Facilitation/Navigation</li> <li>Business Process/ERP Integration</li> <li>Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis</li> <li>Project Organization Design</li> <li>Outsource/Inhouse Assessments</li> <li>Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation</li> <li>Cost/Benefit Analysis</li> <li>Lean Manufacturing/ERP Integration</li> <li>Cross-Functional Team Development/Facilitation</li> <li>Development of IT/Network Architecture</li> <li>Managing Change</li> <li>Project Management</li> </UL> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/distribution-consultants.htm"><B>|</B>Distribution Consultants<B>|</B></A> </p></FONT> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></FONT> <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 Distribution Consultants 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.<BR><br> 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.<br><br> 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.<BR><br> 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. <BR><br> We do not employ consultants inexperienced in manufacturing, and/or distribution. Most of our Distribution Consultants staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. <BR><br> 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.</font></p><br> <BR> <BR><CENTER><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/distribution-consultants.htm">Distribution Consultants</A></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT></CENTER><BR> <font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"> <CENTER>Forward Requests For Proposals To:</CENTER><BR> <CENTER>Rockford Consulting Group<BR> Century Plaza<BR> Suite 206<BR> 7210 East State Street<BR> Rockford, Illinois 61108<BR> Telephone: 815-229-2900<BR> Telefax: 815-229-2612<BR> Toll-free 800-667-7495</CENTER><BR> <CENTER><A href="mailto: rligus@RockfordConsulting.com">E-mail Richard G. Ligus CMC CPCM at: rligus@RockfordConsulting.com</A></B></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=2>©1995 Rockford Consulting Group, Ltd.</CENTER></DIR><BR> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://RockfordConsulting.com/site.htm"><B>|</B>Site Map<B>|</B></A></p> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </BODY>