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 manufacturing or distribution 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!!! Enterprise Resources Planning: Implementing DRP for a Wine/Spirits Distributor Our history with Enterprise Resources Planning
(ERP) systems goes back to the late 1970's when ERP systems were in
their infancy. Our founder was part of an organization that supplied
one of the major software houses with order entry, inventory planning,
and inventory control specifications for its first manufacturing
software modules.
Please see our ERP Success stories:
Later, our base consultants worked with a sister company that was
providing 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 were able to have early, hands-on experience
with ERP and CIM applications, and develop successful implementation
processes, techniques and methods.
Since then Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish
to achieve world class performance and become market leaders with ERP
strategies. ERP is a crucial part of developing Enterprise Agility.
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 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
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
- ERP Evaluation/Effectiveness Analysis
- ERP Project Failure Recovery
- Business Process Evaluation/Reengineering
- Functional Needs Assessments
- Development of Requirements Definition Document
- Development of RFP
- ERP Package Evaluation/Selections
- Implementation Planning
- Implementation Facilitation/Navigation
- Business Process/ERP Integration
- Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis
- Project Organization Design
- Outsource/Inhouse Assessments
- Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Lean Manufacturing/ERP Integration
- Cross-Functional Team Development/Facilitation
- Development of IT/Network Architecture
- Managing Change
- Project Management