Supply Chain Consulting USA’s team is an expert in guiding the successful development of your supply chain management.  We offer practical solutions through providing you with different advantages that have been proven to be beneficial for our previous clients mostly from the packaged goods industries. We aim to provide you with solutions and additional guidelines for industrial distribution, service parts logistics, direct marketing, catalog, wholesale, e-commerce, and retail.

Our consulting team is continuously updated with newly available technologies and newly formulated methods that will help us successfully determine, specify, assess, and formulate proficient solutions for the improvement of our client’s overall operation. Our ability to maintain our capabilities for effective project implementation, engineering, conceptual design, and management is further improved with our use of appropriate systems, procedures, equipment, and technology to ensure your boost when it comes to operations.

Our aim is to provide you with consultants that can focus on providing you with the results you will need on a specified time and also to solve your problems about management issues.

Supply Chain Consulting USA offers the following services: Supply Chain Maturity Assessment, Opportunity Gap Assessment, Cost Savings Assessment, Operations Planning, Supply Chain Strategy, Project Management, Facility Design and Layout, and Software Solutions.

Effective Project Management Approach

Our team provides you with an effective and communicative approach through clearly stating every detail of the project. The project will be closely tracked when it comes to the budget and project issues so that we can provide you with a detailed and fully developed project plan that will be reviewed and updated for further improvement.

Concept Development

In order for our team to provide solutions for effective concept improvement, development of performance and operating requirements and forecasts are needed prior to initial data collection. From the data gathered, our team will provide possible implementation schedules, concept drawings, initial block layouts, risk and feasibility analysis, high level costs and benefits development, and evaluation and identification of possible alternatives.

Detailed Conceptual Design Development

Our team will provide detailed schedules for the development of various aspects like equipment specifications,  requests for proposal, product flows, building layouts, equipment fixtures, and detailed engineering.

Strong Implementation

Our team strongly implements work which can be done both in-house and on-site to effectively focus on supplier selections and bid reviews, drawing reviews and approvals, integrating the scheduling for material handling suppliers and builders, field checking progress, installation coordination, start-up and testing.

The Supply Chain Strategy

We make use of the Supply Chain Strategy which heavily focuses on the reviews of the efficiencies of our client’s logistics networks and supply chains, costs for operation, levels of service, facilities, and organization. Analysis of operations is also done to help determine the most efficient supply chain and to also figure out a more optimized network configuration. The strategy will include these scenarios for us to determine the best possible number of distribution locations. The following services are also included:

Assessment of Supply Chain Management

Our Supply Chain Management Assessment will provide a boosting improvement in your distribution center with the help of  an Opportunity and Maturity Assessment. Constructive comparisons of different distribution centers, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and operating procedures are also being provided against the best practices of relate industries and management systems available. Our goal in providing this type of assessment is to provide you with a substantial increase in warehouse productivity, labor cost reductions, improved utilization of space and improvement of accuracy. Our assessment will also include the following services:

Operations Planning Services

Our team offers effective operations planning services through Concept development, detailed planning and implementation capabilities to existing and expanding facilities. Evaluation of available alternatives which can range from fully automated solutions to low investment options is also done by our team in order for us to provide our clients with equipment solutions which are unbiased and also for us to recommend them with technology that suits their needs best. Our team offers the following services for Operations Planning:

• Estimate Facility, Equipment, and Systems

• Data Gathering and Analysis

• Process Improvement

• Material Handling/Storage Equipment Concepts

• Material and Information Flow Analysis

• Determine Right Technology (RF, Pick/Put to Light, Voice, etc.)

• Best Practices and Benchmarking

• Space and Layout Planning

• Staffing Estimates/Workforce Schedule Planning

• Product Slotting Improvements

• Investment Costs

• Productivity Rates Development

• Estimate Space, Inventory, and Labor Savings

• Project Implementation Plan (Schedule/Resource Planning)

• Detailed Layout Planning/Simulation Modeling

• Supplier Evaluation/Selections

• Write Standard Operating Procedures

• Create Detailed Equipment Elevations

• Equipment RFP Development

• Facility Conceptual Engineering/Architecture Coordination

• Product Slot Assignments

• Project Management

• Benchmark Performance to Plan

• Go Live Support

• Schedule Management of Equipment Installation

• Post-Implementation Performance Audit

Transportation Management Outsourcing

Our team provides an effective and popular transportation solution for effective transportation management through the following services:

• Pre-engagement freight analysis on all major types of transportation

• Negotiation of Rates

• Transportation procurement, both in the spot market and contractually

• Shipment execution and tracking

• Carrier management, compliance and reporting

• Executive dashboard presentations

• Detailed shipment reports

• Freight bill payment and audit

• Claims processing

• Service refund management

• Design and management of inbound client freight programs

• Customized web portals

• Self-service data warehouses

• ERP integration with transactional shipment data

• Integration of shipping applications into client’s e-commerce sites

The  solution analyzes the shipment information and gives the amount of savings (up to 20%; we have seen 3% to 5%) they expect and most times they guarantee it, plus it frees up traffic personnel to work on other projects.

Our team in Supply Chain Consulting USA offers the best services available in terms of Supply Chain Consulting.

We service clients all over the world but mostly in the Americas.  We service the cities of Miami, Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, and West Palm Beach locally without travel expenses in most cases.

Please contact John.Sills@supplychainconsultingusa.com if you are interested in our services or you have questions how we can help you.

A common question often asked is who manages Supply Chain Consulting USA.com?

Mr. Sills is a degreed Industrial Engineer and business process consultant with more than twenty years of experience in materials handling engineering, distribution operations, project management, and systems implementation.  John has significant expertise in supply chain management, distribution systems design, facility planning and layout, process and flow improvement, productivity programs, operations consulting, and transportation management.

——————————–  Professional Background ————————————————
Mr. Sills’ recent assignments involved facility layout and capacity improvements, equipment specifications, Requests for Proposal (RFP) and supplier bids evaluation and selection, and project management for new and existing distribution centers.  John led the design of an e-commerce order processing system for a direct-to-consumer television network using advanced automated order selection systems.  He assisted in the detailed conceptual design, specifications, RFPs, and bid evaluation for a $60 million equipment purchase for a direct-to-consumer client and developed upgrades and redesigned layouts for nine distribution centers for a major retail chain store operator.  He managed capacity evaluation and design for a 1 million square foot Greenfield warehouse and re-engineered the order selection and shipping systems for a major regional supermarket chain’s frozen foods distribution center.

As Senior Project Implementation Manager for DHL’s Express Logistics Group, Mr. Sills was responsible for logistics solutions for in-house and customers’ warehouse management systems and systems integration.  He led the process design, network analysis and design, and implementation of 23 strategic parts centers with call center for 4-hour deliveries to the end-customer and directed detailed design and implementation of strategic parts centers and distribution centers for forward and reverse logistics.  He led the design of a global solution for spare parts delivery with distribution centers in Europe, Asia, and North America.  As Senior Program Manager at Ryder Systems, he led complex integrated business logistics programs.
At GE Medical Systems, he was responsible for Productivity, Manpower Modeling, Warranty, Regional Import/Export, Quality and Six Sigma, Global Distribution Purchasing, Service and Parts Strategy, and domestic and international transportation.  His teams benchmarked regional successes and developed measurement improvement programs, productivity and customer satisfaction improvement programs and laptop debriefing process implementation.  He led the Latin America Six Sigma Service Uptime program and managed the distributor logistics staff, improving domestic and imports operations and reducing imports cycle times 40%.  He increased customer satisfaction for parts delivery from 37% to 84% in 3 years, by re-designing the warehouse network and outsourcing the warehouses.

——————————–  Education and Honors —————————————————-
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Lehigh University
M.B.A., Transportation & Distribution Management and Finance, Syracuse University

• GE Medical Systems Management Awards – 1994, 1996, GE Elfun Membership – 1996
• Quarterly Business Driver Award – Air Express Carrier – 1993
• Research Assistant Award – Syracuse University – 1989,
• Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Fraternity National Paper Award – 1989

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