Purchasing 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="Purchasing Consultants" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif"><BR><IMG alt="Purchasing Consultants" border=0 src="images/notation.gif"> <BR><BR><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Purchasing Consultants Services Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <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> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://RockfordConsulting.com/purchasing-consultants.htm"><B>|</B>Purchasing Consultants<B>|</B></A><br><BR> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Purchasing Consultants</B><BR><BR> <B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <H5><CENTER><B>Purchasing Consultants 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, reducing costs, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right purchasing and outsourcing strategy for your company.</b>  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> <p align="justify">Key to the success of an agile supply chain is the speed and flexibility with which activities can be accomplished. Achieving this capability requires all physical and logical events within the supply chain to be enacted swiftly, accurately, and effectively. The faster parts, information, and decisions flow through an organization, the faster it can respond to customer needs. Supply is an critical part of the supply chain infrastructure.<br> <br> An organization must determine what their facility or facilities are able to produce, both economically and efficiently, while keeping the quality high. Companies must carefully select suppliers for raw materials and components. <b>When choosing a supplier, focus should be on developing velocity, quality and flexibility while at the same time reducing costs or maintaining low cost levels.</b><br> <br> Rockford Consulting Group has developed sound processes and techniques to successfully develop supply channels and increase the productivity and effectiveness of the purchasing organization. We have proven techniques that produce measureable, achievable, and substantial financial benefits, as well as substantial productivity increases for our clients. <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 purchasing, sourcing, and outsourcing implementation efforts in both manufacturing and distribution: </p> <ul> <li>Value stream Mapping</li> <li>Purchasing Cycle-time Reductions</li> <li>Inventory Reductions</li> <li>Increase in Purchasing Throughput</li> <li>Requisition to Receiving Lead Time Reductions</li> <li>Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)</li> <li>Annual Purchasing Spend Reductions</li> <li>Annual Raw Material/Component Cost Reductions</li> <li>Cycle-time Reductions</li> <li>Supply Base Defragmentation</li> <li>Make/Buy Analysis/Planning</li> <li>Supply Chain Operational Audits</li> <li>Supply Chain Modeling/Simulation</li> <li>Inventory Analysis/Planning</li> <li>Capacity Planning/Simulation</li> <li>Supply Logistics Analysis/Simulation</li> <li>Identification/Development of Core Products/Processes</li> <li>Product Line/Component Sourcing</li> <li>Global Sourcing</li> <li>e-Procurement Services</li> <li>Virtual Distribution Services</li> <li>Virtual Warehouse Services</li> <li>Outsource/Reengineer Assessments</li> <li>Supplier Partnership Negotiations</li> <li>Procurement Organization Design</li> <li>Business Process Reengineering</li> <li>Kan-Ban Supply Logistics Development/Implementation</li> <li>Project Management </li> </ul> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/purchasing-consultants.htm"><B>|</B>Purchasing Consultants<B>|</B></A><BR><BR> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></p> <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 Purchasing 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. </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 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 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 ALIGN="JUSTIFY">We do not employ consultants inexperienced in manufacturing, and/or distribution. Most of our Purchasing Consultants staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. <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/purchasing-consultants.htm">Purchasing Consultants</A></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT> </CENTER><BR></font> <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. 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