Warehousing logistics chicago

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Chicago Consulting designs optimal supply chains
We are supply chain consultants, strategists and
engineers. By designing strategies for our
clients supply chains, we help them increase
market share and earnings. We have developed
advanced tools to engineer supply chains. These
tools include several computer applications that
optimize specific components and that are unique
to supply chain consultants. Our most advanced
tools optimize warehouse networks and
inventories. Others quantify the relationship
between customer satisfaction and market share in
competitive markets.

• Chicago ConsultingSupply Chain Consultants8 S.
  Michigan Ave., Suite 3600Chicago, IL 60603 (312)
  346-5080admin_at_chicago-consulting.com
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• Optimal Supply Chains
• Optimal supply chains will always provide better
  service and at lower cost then other
  (non-optimal) supply chains. The basis of our
  strategy and design is two-foldthe performance
  of the supply chain and the cost to operate it.
  By performance we mean the service the supply
  chain provides and the contribution it makes to
  top line objectives of increased sales.
• Provide the highest possible service for any
  given operation cost or budget.
• Require the lowest possible operations cost for
  any given service level.

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THE 10 BEST WAREHOUSE NETWORKS

• Networks with the Lowest Possible
  "Time-to-Market
• The 10 Best Warehouse Networks have been
  developed based on the lowest possible transit
  lead-times to customers represented by the US
  population. For example, Vincennes, IN provides
  the lowest possible lead-time for one warehouse.
  Any other place will increase transit lead-time
  to the US population. Similarly putting any three
  warehouses in any locations other than Boyertown
  PA Jackson TN and Porterville CA will cause the
  transit lead time to be higher than 1.33 days.
  The "Percent Throughput" statistics specify the
  amount of material that would flow trough these
  warehouses based on them serving the population
  closest to them.
• Send us your warehouse locations for a free
  evaluation.
• Our warehouse management consultants will compute
  the service your network provides, contrast that
  with the 10 Best, determine where your next
  warehouse(s) should be located and what
  additional service this would achieve for you.
  We'll also determine which warehouse(s) you may
  want to eliminate if you wish.

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POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

• Some solutions come through compressing
  timefinding ways of reducing the time products
  take to go through the supply chain complexities.
  Normally this requires substantial communication
  and coordination capability.
• Flexibility comes, in part, from having
  alternatives. Alternative manufacturing suppliers
  and service providerstransportation, customs,
  freight forwarding and so on. Too many US
  companies have locked themselves into too few
  Chinese suppliers.
• Some organizations are finding that establishing
  an inbound consolidation capability greatly
  shortens their lead-times. This solution stems
  from having a warehousing capability, typically
  near a port, which can receive material
  manufactured ahead of the critical time at which
  its needed. Then orders, typically for multiple
  items, are placed on the warehouse and shipped in
  full container loads.

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FOR COMPANIES WITH EXPERIENCE IN SOURCING IN CHINA

• THE PROBLEMS
• The supply chain from China to the US is long
  physically and time-wise. Its full of
  complexities and traps that can stall products
  and cause missed opportunities at home.
• The most visible result of this is increased
  inventoriesordering earlier than otherwise,
  carrying larger safety stocks and so on. One of
  our clients estimates that they could reduce
  their safety stocks by 30 if their China/US
  supply chain were more effective.
• The less visible result (which, in most
  businesses, is far more consequential than mere
  inventory increases) is lost sales real sales
  which are lost to others as a result of not
  having product on time.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

• If you manage a business with competitors, so
  your customers have choices -- are there any
  others? -- Chicago Consulting can help you be
  more successful in the followings ways
• Increase Sales, Market Share And Profits
• We believe that satisfying customers is the
  ultimate business strategy--with satisfied
  customers, much is possible without customers,
  nothing is possible. We can develop a customer
  satisfaction based business strategy for you. We
  can

• Determine why customers buy from you and why they
  buy from your competitors.
• Quantify how your market share depends on your
  customer satisfaction levels and, equally
  important, on your competitors' satisfaction
  levels.
• Quantify how much additional market share you
  could achieve with added customer satisfaction.

• Determine how and why customers switch between
  you and your competitors.
• Find what your customers believe about your
  company with respect to those issues that
  determine how they buy.
• Determine what you need to do to keep your
  customers and to cause more of your competitors'
  customers to switch to you.