Whether you are a discrete product or process manufacturer, make-to-order or repetitive, or a distributor, 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. We are a boutique consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management. We serve companies wishing to become world-class performers. We get results!!!
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. Contact us (click here) for more information on how we can improve your operations.
These
are the various services and applications we offer, as part of our
Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, for
logistics/transportation:
- Value stream Mapping
- Cycle-time
Reductions
- Inventory
Reductions
- Throughput Time Reductions
- Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reductions
- Operating Cost Reductions
- Cycle-time Reductions
- Fixed Overhead Cost Reductions
- Variable Overhead Cost Reductions
- Substantial Increases in Throughput
- Physical Flow Improvements
- Warehouse Design/Simulations
- Operational Audits
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulation
- Global Sourcing
- Capacity Planning/Simulation
- Logistics Development/Simulation
- Distribution Channel Design/Simulation
- Warehouse Consolidations
- Process Design/Simulation
- Material Handling Design/Simulation
- Outsource/Reengineer Assessments
- Supplier Partnership Negotiations
- Organization Evaluation/Design
- Logistics/Distribution Assessments
- Distribution Information Technology
- Strategic Procurement
- Materials/Inventory Management
- Top
Management Facilitation
- Information Technology
Strategic Planning
- ERP
Evaluation/Effectiveness Analysis
- Business Process Evaluation/Reengineering
- Functional Needs Assessments
- Development of Requirements Definition Document
- Development of RFP
- ERP Package Evaluation/Selections
- Implementation Planning
- Implementation Facilitation/Navigation
- Business Process/ERP Integration
- Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis
- Project Organization Design
- Outsource/Inhouse Assessments
- Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Lean Manufacturing/ERP Integration
- Cross-Functional Team Development/Facilitation
- Development of IT/Network Architecture
- Managing Change
- Competitive Analysis/Benchmarking
- Transportation Planning/Development
- Location/Site Determination & Development
- Operational Audits
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulation
- Global Sourcing
- Distribution Requirements Planning Systems Selection
- DRP Implementation
- Logistics Analysis/Simulation
- Distribution Channel Design/Simulation
- Distribution Information Technology
- Project Management