Shipping Logistics Consulting
Can Identify The Problems
In Your Supply Chain Then
Uncover Solutions To Take Your Operation To The Next Level

Our Shipping Logistics Consulting
Offers Seven Key Steps To Turn
Your Operation Into a Superstar

As a logistics pros, you’ve heard about Shipping Logistics Consulting. Many call it supply chain diagnostics, others call it supply chain analytics, whatever you call Shipping Logistics Consulting, we are experts at Shipping Logistics Consulting where we identify the problems in your supply chain and your internal information flows. We have perfected this process down into Seven Key Steps, that will turn your operation Into a Superstar.

Naming Internal Staff as The
Objective “Consultant” Is A Major Mistake

When undertaking the Shipping Logistics Consulting process, you might be inclined to save money by assigning an internal person to that position, rather than spending money on an outside consultant. You may have the ill conceived belief that your internal staff should be able to resolve the problem.

I strongly suggest that you do not make that mistake. To fine tune your operation, it is critical that your leader in the Shipping Logistics Consulting process, is an outside party with Logistics experience that can offer an objective opinion without company politics, and self-preservation issues being involved. The outside consultant can ask the right questions of your staff, and lead them to identifying the problems that they could not see prior to the sessions, and then engage your to team to develop the solutions to resolve the identified issues.

When you follow our advice, and employ this Shipping Logistics Consulting process, you will be totally amazed at how much more effective this process is. When you provide an outside Objective view who digs into the day to day operational methodology with your internal staff who has intimate knowledge of your operation, this process allows the group to not only identify the weak links in your supply chain but find and identify the solutions.

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• Ask For Jim Morgenstern
• US Call 800-274-6862 or International Call US 770-434-3516 
• SKYPE: Alliance USA 
• Click Here and fill out an information request form
• Email Jim Morgenstern at jimm@asg-usa.net 

How Our Shipping Logistics Consulting Process Works 

Since you are reading this, I have to assume you are a logistics pro, and my experience tells me two things:

1. You have some ideas or know where the kinks in your supply chain are
2. Because of your industry experience you have some ideas for solutions.

We would start by assigning your team some homework prior to our Main Logistics Shipping Consulting sessions. We need a place to start, if we are going to reach the spectacular success we can achieve when all the right pieces are in place.

So the first pre-step in the Shipping Logistics Consulting process is to Uncover the Problem Areas:

• Step through your logistics process or supply chain carefully looking for and documenting weaknesses.
• If you’re not sure if you’ve found a weakness or not, add all question marks you might have to your list for your consultant.
• By the way, this is not the time to be shy or defensive. You know all the clichés about the “only stupid question”.

The second pre-step in the Shipping Logistics Consulting process is to Develop Ideas:

• Be sure that everyone even remotely related to logistics has a chance to throw in ideas
• Have directed or focused discussion groups kick around possible solutions to problem areas. Keep track of all possibilities.

Now! The Seven Steps to Success using
The Logistics Shipping Consulting Process!!

1) Vetting Potential Solutions – Focus!

•  Problems areas and useful ideas can be generated in house
• Value of a consultant: The consultant can help you be sure the proposed solution is tested to logical and empirical standards.
• Danger: It’s easy to settle on a solution that is popular with corporate culture or internal politics.

• Can it work with your company?
• Apply standard metrics, such as:
• For example: What is the dollar cost of the solution?
• Are the personnel resources available?
• What are the time constraints?
• Is this the best time to implement the proposed solution or are other structural or operational changes are underway in other corners of the company that take precedence?
• Will you make enough more or save enough to make any change worth the effort?

• Verify that is practical by making sure that everyone sign off on when and where the dollars and people will come from.
• Be sure that if “some” more money or “some” more personnel time is needed (Murphy’s Law) that the project will not stall. This is the last gut check before the trigger is pulled.

• Map it with a flow chart or similar physical layout of the action steps
• Sort out any crossed lines or dead ends on the flow chart

• Staffing, can be:
• • one person
  • a team headed by the project manager, staff and in house or outsourced experts ( depends on the scope of the project and resources available)

• Communication is key

• • Among the team if the team is large, but even if the “team” is one individual, top management must be kept informed.

  • As the project goes forward possible wrinkles must be considered and resolved.

6) Culturalization. Inertia kills!

• The most thoroughly and artfully designed and installed change can be foiled by inertia. It’s simply too easy and too natural for an organization to remain on its current course.
• As the components of the revised solution itself are installed, ancillary support mechanisms such as formal audit and review procedures much be installed alongside so that new rules, procedures and methods are followed on an ongoing basis.

• A takeaway from the solution should be the knowledge base or material developed for the solution that may be applied elsewhere in the organization
• You should be left with or keep usable tools to measure the impact of the solutions going forward
• You should have a “tool kit” of suggestions or methodologies you can apply to your operation if it seems that the solution

 Start the Conversation Now!!

• Ask For Jim
• US Call 800-274-6862 or International Call US 770-434-3516 
• SKYPE: Alliance USA 
• Click Here and fill out an information request form
• Email Jim at jimm@asg-usa.net