Consulting Services Offered:
Use Business Process Reegineering as one of your most powerful strategic weapons to leverage IT! Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time. Slash the cost of quality, and win market share. This strategy provides you with the means to do it.
Substantial market share has been lost over years to foreign competitors. No industry is immune. The pressure is on to be the nothing less than the best. But being the best takes serious change and it's no easy matter.
You've got to streamline your factories, systems and organizations, and open up lines of communication. You've got to break down barriers between departments and put an end to the "we've always done it this way" argument. You've got to get your employees highly involved in assuming new responsibilities if you're going to compete in the global markets in the next decade.
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, reduce costs, increasing
flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation
of the right information technology strategy and ERP system 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!!!
Our history with IT and Enterprise Resources
Planning (ERP) systems reaches back to the late 1970's when ERP systems
were in their infancy, and companies were running on IBM Sys/36 and 370
operating systems. We
supplied one of the major software houses with order entry, inventory
planning, and inventory control specifications for its first
manufacturing software modules.
Later, we worked with a sister company that provided specialized
machine tools using Computer Integrated
Manufacturing (CIM) as its key design and production strategy. These
techniques were taken to clients for applying both ERP and CIM to the
workplace. As a result we had early, hands-on experience
with ERP and CIM applications, and develop successful implementation
processes, techniques and methods, such as SDLC.
Since then Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish
to achieve world class performance and become market leaders with IT
strategies. IT is a crucial part of every company's infrastructure.
Today, we facilitate clients with assessing current processes and
systems, ERP cost/benefits, identifying their functional requirements,
developing RFP's, searching for candidates, evaluating responses to
RFP's, selecting, implementing state-of-the-art ERP systems,
integrating new systems with streamlined processes, and avoiding common
pitfalls that regularly occur during these projects. (Please see our
white paper The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP
Implementation)
We are strong with ERP implementations, because we are intimate with
manufacturing and distribution processes at the detailed process and
work instruction level. 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 IT and ERP implementation efforts in both manufacturing and
distribution:
- Inventory Reduction
- Business Cycle Time Reduction
- Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reduction
- Implementation Cost Over-run Avoidance
- Implementation Schedules Delays Avoidance
- Increased Productivity
- Increased Business Cycle Throughput
- Increased Project Control
- Avoidance of Wrong ERP Package Selection
- Effective Technology Deployment
- Legacy System Upgrades
- ERP Decision-making Facilitation
- Top Management Facilitation
- Information Technology Strategic Planning
- Technology Analysis
- Business Systems (ERP) Performance Audit
- Business Process/ERP Integration
- Information Systems Effectiveness Analysis
- Functional Needs Assessments
- ERP Package Evaluation/Selections
- Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis
- Outsource/Inhouse Assessments
- Organization Evaluation/Design
- Implementation Facilitation/Navigation
- Knowledge Management/Engineering
- Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Lean Manufacturing/ERP Integration
- Requirements Planning System Evaluation
- Project Management