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, 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. 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!!!
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Supply Chain Management: Outsourcing for Fast Results
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.
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. 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.
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. 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 purchasing, sourcing, and outsourcing
implementation efforts in both manufacturing and distribution:
- Value stream Mapping
- Purchasing Cycle-time Reductions
- Inventory Reductions
- Increase in Purchasing Throughput
- Requisition to Receiving Lead Time Reductions
- Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
- Annual Purchasing Spend Reductions
- Annual Raw Material/Component Cost Reductions
- Cycle-time Reductions
- Supply Base Defragmentation
- Make/Buy Analysis/Planning
- Supply Chain Operational Audits
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulation
- Inventory Analysis/Planning
- Capacity Planning/Simulation
- Supply Logistics Analysis/Simulation
- Identification/Development of Core Products/Processes
- Product Line/Component Sourcing
- Global Sourcing
- e-Procurement Services
- Virtual Distribution Services
- Virtual Warehouse Services
- Outsource/Reengineer Assessments
- Supplier Partnership Negotiations
- Procurement Organization Design
- Business Process Reengineering
- Kan-Ban Supply Logistics Development/Implementation
- Project Management