Logistics Consulting Company - 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="Logistics Consulting Company" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif" width="122" height="219"><BR><IMG alt="Logistics Consulting Company" 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>Logistics Consulting Company Services Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <A href="manucons.htm"> <img src="images/manuf.gif" alt="Manufacturing" 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> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>General Information</B></FONT> <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/logistics-consulting-company.htm"><B>|</B>Logistics Consulting Company<B>|</B></A> <B></B> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Logistics Consulting Company</B></FONT><BR><BR> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <P> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <H4><CENTER><B>Logistics Consulting Company Services Offered: </B></CENTER></H4> <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, reducing costs, increasing capacity, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right logistics and supply chain 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!!!</b></p> <b>Contact us <a href="contact.htm">(click here) </a>for more information on how we can improve your operations.</b> <p align="justify">Supply and service logistics are a fundamental part of an agile infrastructure that needs to be set in place for a company to perform on a world class level. Key to achieving success lies in refocusing and redesigning the supply and service chains -- physically and logically- -to meet market demands. Taking dramatic steps to become agile is necessary to be a world-class contender in the 21st century.<BR><BR> These are the various services and applications we offer, as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, for logistics/transportation: </p> <p align="left"> <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>Logistics Development/Simulation</li> <li>Distribution Channel Design/Simulation</li> <li>Warehouse Consolidations</li> <li>Process Design/Simulation</li> <li>Material Handling Design/Simulation</li> <li>Outsource/Reengineer Assessments</li> <li>Supplier Partnership Negotiations</li> <li>Organization Evaluation/Design</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>Competitive Analysis/Benchmarking</li> <li>Transportation Planning/Development</li> <li>Location/Site Determination & Development</li> <li>Distribution Requirements Planning Systems Selection</li> <li>DRP Implementation</li> <li>Logistics Analysis/Simulation</li> <li>Distribution Information Technology</li> <li>Project Management </li> </ul> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/logistics-consulting-company.htm"><B>|</B>Logistics Consulting Company<B>|</B></A> <P><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></FONT> </p> <P align=justify>Rockford Consulting Group is located in Rockford, IL., a city with a substantial manufacturing and machine tool history. An Illinois corporation, our Logistics Consulting Company 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"> 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.</P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">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">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 Logistics Consulting Company staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. </p> <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. <BR> <BR> <CENTER><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/logistics-consulting-company.htm">Logistics Consulting Company</A></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT> </CENTER><BR> <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>©1995 Rockford Consulting Group, Ltd.<BR></CENTER> <p align="center"><a href="http://rockfordconsulting.com/index.htm" target="Home Page, click here"><b>|</b> To go to Home Page, click here <b>|</b></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="site.htm"><b>|</b>Site Map<b>|</b></a></p></font> </td></tr></tbody></table> </body>