Industry Experience and Functional Expertise  Automotive and Heavy Duty Truck Our consultants have extensive experience with suppliers to automotive and heavy-duty truck OEMs. This industry has struggled with diminishing margins, global competition and the costs of ever-increasing customer demands. We’ve helped these companies: reduce non-value-add activity satisfy customer compliance demands become more agile simplify production planning and purchasing improve change control and communication implement workflow to improve process quality improve production reporting timeliness and accuracy reduce inventories implement lean initiatives to improve productivity implement supplier-side EDI to improve communication.
These companies are typically repetitive manufacturing operations with multiple plants and/or distribution facilities. Their processes have included: We’ve been active in AIAG and a frequent speaker at the annual Auto-tech conference in Detroit.  Fashion Apparel and Footwear Fashion Apparel and Footwear are typically driven by unforgiving seasonality and market trends. Tomorrow is never soon enough and the right product in the right place at the right time is the difference between success and failure. A major challenge is planning and executing the introduction of new styles and changes to existing styles/colors and sizes. These companies are also driven by demanding chain retailer and industry initiatives for EDI, data synchronization, labeling and other supply chain technologies. Our consultants have helped implement and extend ERP function within some of the world’s foremost fashion clothing and footwear companies. We’ve participated in the design and development of solutions that provide visibility and management control at style or color or size, as appropriate. We’ve contributed to the following: Enabling management of the creative design process Supporting chain retailer EDI, labeling initiatives Facilities for Case pack definition and management Implementation of mandated data synchronization Automation of receivables factoring
 Food and Beverage The food and beverage industry includes a disparate range of companies that includes growers, manufacturers, processors, wholesalers, retailers and others. Their pricing and discount systems are generally very complex and many are vertically integrated. Our consultants have experience meat product manufacturers that require catch-weight, by-product, co-product and yield features. We also have experience with snack food producers. As suppliers to grocers and other retailers these companies are challenged by many of the retail customer compliance demands. We’ve helped these customers: Improve their management of complex product planning Improve productivity and control throughout manufacturing Improve integration and business agility Comply with retail industry EDI and labeling initiatives Implement mandated data synchronization
 Electronics Our consultant customer experience in electronics includes US companies that distribute products produced across the globe by their parent company plants , board insertion operations, and PC assembly facilities.  Wine and Spirits Our consultant work in this industry includes regional distributors of alcoholic beverages and a major distiller that imports and distributes a number of international brands.  Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Our consultants have provided project management and consulting services to manufacturers and distributors of cosmetics, balloons, alarms, fire extinguishers, jewelry, casters, cookware, craft materials, medical devices, recreational equipment.  Industrial Materials, Components, Assemblies and Machines Material handling equipment, farm equipment, plumbing parts, countertop laminates, mowers, motorized carts, chemical plating and finishing, industrial food processing equipment, fasteners, measuring devices | 
