Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution
Staying ahead the competitive curve, leveraging capital, managing human resources, and successfully navigating compliance issues while creating long-term value are some the key challenges facing leaders in the manufacturing, retail, and distribution sectors.
Accume Partners’ Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution (MR&D) Practice has the knowledge and experience to provide insights and solutions that address the key challenges you face. Whether you are…
- a manufacturer with responsibility for balancing product development, time to market, product mix, packaging, supply chain management, and process risks; or
- a retailer interested in improving customer satisfaction and market-facing processes, maximizing value from supplier promotions, controlling shrinkage, or creating retail-chain operational efficiencies; or perhaps
- a wholesaler or distributor concerned with warehousing logistics, picking/packing and fulfillment efficiencies, just-in-time inventory implementation, minimizing inventory cost, or addressing other profitability factors;
we have the experience to help you successfully navigate the challenges of your business, and emerge with meaningful results and measurable success.
Our MR&D team possesses a balance of technical expertise – in operations, process management, audit, risk management, and compliance – combined with an average of 15 years’ experience actively applying their skills to assist leading organizations create value, efficiency, and competitive advantage. We consistently deliver industry knowledge and subject-matter expertise to assess and diagnose client issues with pinpoint accuracy; and propose efficient and effective solutions, strategies, and implementation programs that produce desired results for our clients.
We offer a broad array of services to support your specific needs, including:
- Risk Assessment and Risk Management Programs
- Compliance Program Design/Support
- Retail-Store Audits and Compliance Reviews
- Business Process Improvement – Functional Through Composite
- Supply-Chain Process Management
- Inventory, Fulfillment, and Retail Product Distribution Management
- Shared Services, Efficiencies for Multiple-Unit Retail Operations
- Manufacturer Merchandising Program Assessments/Audits
- Policy, Procedure, and Training Development and Best Practices Implementation
- Plant, Store, Distribution-Center Process Reviews
- Vendor Contract Management Audits and Process Reviews
- Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay Processes
- Composite Process and Extended Enterprise Analysis
- Loss Prevention and Shrinkage Control Process Management/Audits
- Sales-to-Payment Cycle Analysis/Process Efficiency
- Product Profitability; Cost and Pricing Process Analysis
- Systems Technology – Security / Vulnerability, Continuity, Recovery
- PCI (Payment card industry) DSS Compliance
- EDI (Electronic data interchange) Implementation Assistance
- Pre and Post Implementation Reviews
- e-Commerce and Application Controls
Let Accume Partners help you meet your strategic goals and management objectives through innovative solutions designed for the specific needs of your organization.
Related Industry Resources:
Free White Paper: The High Costs of Non-compliance for Manufacturers, Cincom Systems
Companies that are taking time to transform their processes are more competitive as a result of re-engineering to create more effective process management with their suppliers, resellers, channel partners, and customers.
- Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine - http://www.mbtmag.com/ - executive broadcasts, news, events
- Manufacturing.net - http://www.manufacturing.net/ - industry news, industry focus, market sectors, white papers
- RetailNet - http://www.retailnet.com/ - industry news
- US Census Board - http://www.census.gov/econ/www/retmenu.html -industry surveys, annual reports, and data
- National Retail Federation - http://www.nrf.com/ -industry news, government relations, press, conference and events
- Retail Industry Leaders Association - http://www.retail-leaders.org/latest/ -industry news, publications, resources
- Warehousing Education and Research Council - http://www.werc.org/ -news, resources, about WERC