Manufacturing, Distribution & Trade
To sharpen your competitive edge in today’s business environment, you need to boost efficiency and eliminate risk throughout the value chain. Strategic improvements to manufacturing, distribution and production planning are the route to higher customer satisfaction, lower administrative costs, faster responses to new opportunities and more profit.
Revere is here to help. Our manufacturing, distribution and trade practice delivers integrated solutions that will grow your business. Don't think of it as business process outsourcing: think of it as bringing in a trusted and engaged advisor. Our experienced senior consultants blend proven methodologies with a strong commitment to finding practical solutions that suit your unique business model. Our supply chain solutions help your teams improve the accuracy of their demand forecasting and weed out variance and waste. We'll show you how to create more efficient links with suppliers, identify reliable business partners, and implement transformative IT solutions.
Six Sigma methodology improvements: Growing global competition means that manufacturers, distributors and sellers must constantly seek new ways to cut costs and eliminate waste from production planning and every sales and management process. Revere knows how to meet these challenges by applying lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodology in an integrated approach.
Lean manufacturing focuses on reducing waste in business processes, while Six Sigma methodology improves output consistency by reducing process variation. By applying the strengths of these two methodologies in tandem, Revere helps our clients improve the reliability and speed of their production, planning and distribution. Our consultants gain a thorough understanding of your supply management and business practices, then apply these two methodologies to strengthen your value chain.
Supply chain planning: Risk is present at every step of supply chain management -- from quality problems with suppliers to mechanical failures along the assembly line to shipping disruptions. That's why your risk management process must include all of your business process outsourcing and supply chain solutions. Revere helps our clients design and implement a risk management process that is fully integrated with their other management processes.
We work with clients to identify their most critical risks and then implement mitigation tactics. In addition to overall supplier certification processes and current-state assessments, we provide specialized software tools for industries like pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods. Our proven supply management and risk prevention methodologies identify and respond to emerging risks from globalization and outsourcing, political instability, product safety legislation and supply chain planning weakness.
Integrated demand forecasting: Peak efficiency in today’s volatile economy requires dependable, accurate production planning. Integrated demand forecasting gives businesses the power to coordinate all upstream manufacturing and distribution. This leads to reliable purchasing and production planning that yield significant savings.
Revere helps its clients collaborate with their partners throughout the value chain to improve integrated demand forecasting and build downstream operational efficiencies. Demand-driven forecasting tools create increased sales, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce inventory and distribution costs. Our seasoned industry consultants have a long track record of helping manufacturers, distributors and retailers get the most out of their people, materials, and production capacity.
Global strategic sourcing: The globalization of trade has created great opportunities to find new low-cost suppliers and reduce your input costs. Evaluating the quality and dependability of suppliers around the world, however, presents a major challenge. Revere’s global strategic supply chain solutions help clients identify the suppliers with the highest net value and implement controls to ensure dependable supply.
Using a well-defined sourcing methodology, we help companies throughout the value chain identify and partner with high-quality, low-cost suppliers from across the globe. Key elements of our program include data collection and analysis, category strategy formulation, supplier interviews, contract negotiation, and supplier benchmarking and review.
Strategic network design: To boost efficiency and profits, manufacturers, distributors and retailers must analyze all aspects of their distribution network. Revere’s senior consultants help companies think strategically about their distribution network and identify opportunities to improve supply management and distribution. Our proven methodology for distribution frameworks includes:
- Economic analysis: Evaluate the existing cost of distribution for the full volume of storage and movements across the entire network
- Building requirements: Determine the basic facility requirements needed to maintain efficient and effective product flow based on forecasted volume and product mixes
- Distribution network modeling: Design distribution-center capabilities through an exhaustive modeling process that accounts for the full range of warehouse and transportation costs and customer-service requirements
- Facility optimization: Analyze each facility's physical layout, materials handling processes and staffing strategies to boost productivity and cut costs
- Transportation lane analysis (inbound and outbound): Study distribution networks to establish the transportation flows needed to maintain the best customer service and lowest costs
IT selection & implementation: The right IT applications and platforms can transform your entire operational environment. Revere has helped hundreds of manufacturers, distributors and retailers select and install the technology solutions best suited to their needs. Whether you need to harness the power of business analytics, engage your clients by executing an Enterprise 2.0 online strategy, or upgrade to a more robust enterprise platform, Revere has the technical expertise and industry knowledge to guide you through every step of your IT evolution.
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Business intelligence solutions: Turn data into knowledge through real-time reporting tools that aggregate information from across your value chain and deliver it to the right person at the right time
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Enterprise 2.0: Create and execute a highly interactive online strategy that uses next-generation web capabilities and engages partners throughout your value chain
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Enterprise platforms: Indentify and implement technology platforms that improve your current processes and lay a foundation for growth