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International Consulting Services
- Agile Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Business Process Reengineering Consulting Services
- Cellular Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Distribution Consulting Services
- ERP Consulting Services
- Information Technology Consulting Services
- Global Sourcing Consulting Services
- Lean Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Logistics/Transportation Consulting Services
- Mass Customization Consulting Services
- Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Organizational Development Consulting Services
- Outsource Manufacturing Consulting Services
- Purchasing and Outsourcing Consulting Services
- Strategic Planning Consulting Services
- Supply Chain Management Consulting Services
General Information
- About Us
- International Alliance
- Qualifications
- Articles
- Success Stories
- Speaking Engagements
- Seminars
- News Releases
- Employment
- Contact us
Qualifications
- Areas of Specialization
- Concepts and Technologies Applied
- Staffing
- Operating Policy
- Approach
- Companies and Industries Served
Articles/White Papers on Current Issues:
Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Logistics, Agile Manufacturing, Business Process Reengineering, Cycle Times, Managing Change, etc.
White Papers
- The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation
- Organizational Development: The Missing Link in Lean Transformations
- Strategic Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How To Manage Radical Transformation
- Supply Chain Agility: Inducing World Class Performance in the 21st Century
Articles
- Business Process Reengineering: The Turbo Organization
- Get Your Assembly Equipment For Free: How To Propose a Winning Capital Equipment Justification
- Regaining Market Share Starts With Getting Physical..and Agile
- Strategic Planning: Energize Your Company With a Team-Driven Vision and Reward System
- Developing World Class Manufacturing Agility: How To Reduce Total Cycle Times in Your Company
- Enterprise Agility: Jazz In The Factory
- Implementing Radical Change: The Right Stuff
- A Black "I" in CIM
- Running On Empty
- The Rise and Fall of MRP
Author For All Articles
Biography
Speaking Engagements
- Enterprise Resources Planning: The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation
- Strategic Sourcing: The Good, Bad & The Ugly
- Strategic Outsourcing: A Tale of Two Companies
- Organizational Development: The Missing Link In Lean Transformations
- Managing Radical Change: Six Keyholes To Success
- Supply Chain Agility: Regaining World Market Share Starts With Getting Physical . . . and Agile
- BPR: How To Reduce Total Cycle Times in Your Company
Course Leader For All Sessions
Biography
Success Stories
- Supply Chain Management: Outsourcing for Fast Results
- Strategic Planning and Reducing Lead Times In High-Tech Design/Build
- Synchronous Manufacturing: Synchronizing the Supply Chain with Manufacturing Cellsfor Improved Scheduling Control and Inventory Reduction in the Automotive Industry
- Supply Chain Logistics: Redesigning the Supply Chain for Velocity
- Business Process Reengineering: Reducing Shipping Errors in Order Fulfillment for a Wine/Spirits Distributor
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Reengineering To Reduce Total Throughput Time In The Automotive Industry
- World Class Manufacturing: Evaluating Capital Equipment for an Aerospace Manufacturer
- Enterprise Agility: Becoming the Most Agile Manufacturer of Capital Equipment
- Manufacturing Agility: Synchronizing Flexible Cells for Specialized Products
- Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP): Assessing the IS VIsion for a Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Manufacturer
- Manufacturing Agility: Redesigning The Factory and Organization With Fast, Flexible Cells
- Strategic Procurement: Organizing To Reduce Global Spend
- Enterprise Resources Planning: Implementing DRP for a Wine/Spirits Distributor
- Self Directed Teams: The Fastest Plating Company in the Mid-west
- Enterprise Agility:
Redesign of a Sporting Goods Manufacturer
- Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP): Streamlining Business Processes and Upgrading Information Technology for a Food/Beverage Distributor
- World Class Manufacturing: Evaluating Capacity for Wheel Production in Mexico
- Lean Manufacturing: Redesigning The Plant For 10 second Takt Time
- Reengineering the plant for an Electro-mechanical Manufacturer
- Enterprise Resouces Planning (ERP): Upgrading Information Technology for a Battery Manufacturer
Seminars/Clinics/Workshops/Performance Audits
Seminars/Workshops
- Managing Change/Facilitation Program
- Custom Tailored Supervisory Training
Program
- Custom-tailored Workforce Training Program
- Custom-tailored Leadership Training Program
- Seminar: How To Reduce Total Cycle Times in Your Company
Performance Audits
- Inventory, Capacity and Cycle Time Reduction Performance Audit
- Business Systems(ERP) Performance Audit
- Sales Planning and Product Forecasting Performance Audit
Clinics
- Strategic Planning Clinic/Vision Building: Energize Your Company With a Team-Driven Vision and Reward System
- Organization Culture Change Clinic
Custom Tailored Managing Change/ Training Programs
- Executive Management Transformation Program
- Custom Tailored Leadership Training Program
- Custom Tailored Supervisory Training
Program
- Custom Tailored Workforce Training Program
- Managing Change/Facilitation Programs
News Releases
- ABB Partners with Rockford Consulting Group for Operational Excellence
- Rockford Consulting Group and Mateor have signed an agreement to represent Rockford Consulting Group in Israel
- Rockford Consulting Group offers a custom-tailored Executive Management Transformation Program
- Rockford Consulting Group and Riyada Consulting Co. Form International Strategic Alliance For Bahrain and Gulf Cooperative Council Countries
- Rockford Consulting Group and Trevisan Consultores de Empresas Ltda. have formed a strategic alliance for Brazil
- Rockford Consulting Group and Beijing Champion Consulting Form International Strategic Alliance For Mainland China
- Rockford Consulting Group and Grant Thornton Ulloa Garzon & Asociados Form International Strategic Alliance For Colombia
- Rockford Consulting Group and CE Consultories Empresariales Form International Strategic Alliance For Argentina
- Rockford Consulting Group Opens International Headquarters
- Richard G. Ligus CMC CPCM Certified Professional Management Consultant By The National Bureau Of Certified Consultants
Employment
- Employment Opportunities
RCG University
- Activity-Based Costing
- Agile Manufacturing
- Business Process Reengineering
- Cellular Manufacturing
- Concurrent Engineering
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
- Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)
- Flow Manufacturing
- Just-In-Time
- Kaizen
- Lean Manufacturing
- Managing Change
- Material Requirements Planning(MRP)
- Mass Customization
- Reducing Cycle Times
- Self Directed Teams
- Strategic Outsourcing
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Procurement
- Supply Chain Agility
- Supply Chain Management
- Synchronous Manufacturing
- Theory of Constraints
- World Class Manufacturing
International Consulting Alliances
Rockford Consulting Group has international strategic consulting alliances with
management consulting firms to offer a breadth and depth of consulting specialties that equal those of larger firms, but retain the agility,
speed of response, and niche expertise of the consulting boutique. The international consulting alliances were formed in 1999 by Rockford
Consulting Group to combine the services and talent to provide world-wide clients with:
- A global reach of highly competitive services
- A broader array of supply chain management and information technology consulting services than each could achieve independently
- A superior value for the investment committed
- More agility and responsiveness than large consulting firms
- An international expert resource pool exceeding 1000, and
- Multi-national/multi-lingual coverage
Rockford Consulting Group offers coverage of North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, Middle East, South Africa, China, and Europe to multi-national firms that have operations in several continents and desire the continuity of having the same consulting firm in multi-locations. The global consulting capacity of specialists exceeds 1000.
International Alliance Members
North America

Rockford Consulting Group
Imperial Oaks
Suite #1
5098 Crofton Drive
Rockford, Illinois 61114
Telephone: 001-815-877-3200
Telefax: 001-815-877-3614
Toll-free 800-667-7495
Contact: Mr. Richard G. Ligus CMC CPCM
President
Email: (click here)
Website: www.rockfordconsulting.com
Rockford Consulting Group, located in Rockford, IL, is a manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain strategy and operations management consulting firm, specializing in manufacturing and distribution, that offers state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies to companies worldwide. The company consists of a select group of certified senior
consultants who have held both executive positions and have hands-on consulting experience. They have performed assignments globally, generally for $100MM+ companies, such as ABB, Seton, I.E. Du Pont de Nemours, SGL Carbon Group, Teledyne-Allegheny, True Temper Hardware, Citibank, and Accuride de Mexico.
Colombia

Grant Thornton Ulloa Garzón & Asociados is a national accounting firm founded in 1987, with six partners and more than 50 staff, working from offices in Bogota and Bucaramanga. The firm offers auditing, tax and management advisory services, as well as training in accounting, auditing and taxation and foreign investment advice. It is
the exclusive Member firm of Grant Thornton International in Colombia, and provides consulting market coverage for Colombia.
Brazil

TREVISAN is one of the most respected Auditing, Consulting and Education Companies in South America. Having great credibility in the market, it has established itself as a creative and innovative organization, capable of not only meeting the present needs of its national and international clients, but also of anticipating the new demands of the private companies.
TREVISAN has seven offices located in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ribeirão Preto, Brasília, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, and Goiânia, and employs over 500 highly specialized professionals in its business units. It is the exclusive Member firm of Grant Thornton
International in Brazil. Trevisan provides consulting coverage for Brazil.
Argentina
CE Consultores Empresariales is a national accounting firm working from offices in Buenos Aries. The firm offers accounting, tax, legal, foreign affairs, and economic-financial advisory services. CE provides market coverage for Argentina and Mercosur.
Israel
Mateor is a technology-management leading consultancy firm, specializing in Strategic IT Planning, Information Systems Analysis & Design and Management & Control of Business Process Outsourcing. Mateor has offices in Israel.
Belgium/Luxembourg

The VGGroup (VGG) represents an array of coordinated companies, representative offices and individuals working in the engineering, consulting, construction, contracting & trade sectors. It specializes in worldwide business and project development. Worldwide headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium.
Ukraine

OKO (United Consulting) Inc. offers a full range of business solutions to assist
businesses in the Ukraine, including Strategic planning, project financing, engineering and project management.
Bahrain & GCC Countries

Riyada Consulting, with offices located in Bahrain, provides clients with implementable solutions that enable private and public organizations to derive maximum benefit from their resources, by applying the most effective business tools and techniques. Their services identify, apply, and implement proven theories and technology tools that enhance client operations while accounting for organizational capacities and growth objectives.
Mainland China
Beijing Champion Consulting is a manufacturing, inter-control, purchasing and financial management consulting service, established in 1999, with an established customer
base of more than 1500. The firm has offices in Beijing, and provides consulting coverage of mainland China.
Contact
Rockford Consulting Group
Imperial Oaks
Suite #1
5098 Crofton Drive
Rockford, Illinois 61114
Telephone: 001-815-877-3200
Telefax: 001-815-877-3614
Toll-free 800-667-7495
Contact: Mr. Richard G. Ligus CMC CPCM
President
Email: (click here)
Website:
www.rockfordconsulting.com