Supply Chain Solutions Consultants

Areas served: All material handling related endeavors. Extensive experience with meat processing, food production, lumber supply chain, building products, appliances, grocery, medical supplies, corrugated paper and various parts of automotive supply chain with a focus on right sizing, right typing and expense control for our clients material handling fleets.

Professional Affiliations:
Mheda, FSG Group

Services:
Consulting/Coaching on all material handling equipment related projects. Projects include site-surveys, data reviews, plan creation and implementation of new strategies for reduced costs, improved efficiencies, and safety concerns. Our follow up commitment includes invoice and utilization auditing and recording fleet information such as individual unit histories, specifications and true utilization versus plan and budgets. This is accomplished through utilization of our on-line database PMFleet.com. Our development team has also created proposal software that is widely used throughout the material handling industry for the generation of proposal for a large number of oem and material handling product groups.

Areas served: U.S. and International

Professional Affiliations: APMHC, MHMS, ICBO, AISC, and P.E. in over 30 states

Services: Design and analysis of all material handling equipment and their anchorage when requiring licensed engineers certification to satisfy building departments or the client's needs.

Including: Calculations, details, layouts, submittals to cities and follow-up, field trips and project supervision.

Areas served: North America

Professional Affiliations: Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers, American College of Forensic Examiners, American National Standards Institute, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Safety Engineers, American Welding Society,Material Handling Industry of America, National Association of Trailer Manufacturers, National Safety Council, Scaffold Industry Association, Society of Automotive Engineers, Specialized Carriers and Riggers Association, Standards Engineering Society, Trucking Industry Defense Association, Underwriters Laboratories, World Safety Organization.

Services: Accident investigation, reconstruction and expert services covering material handling equipment including lifts, hoists, jacks, cranes, powered industrial trucks, aerial work platforms, industrial machines, hydraulic equipment, tools, scissors lifts, tilters and vertical conveyors. Forty plus years of engineering, manufacturing and management experience to provide services relating to product safety, product failures, product liability, testing, compliance with standards (ANSI and ISO), compliance with regulations (OSHA, EPA & DOT), adequacy of instructions and labels. Development of explanatory exhibits and preparation of evidence for trial.

Areas Served: Worldwide

Professional Affiliations: APMHC; Senior Member, IIE; Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)

Services: Johnson Stephens Consulting is a supply chain operations consulting firm which specializes in providing strategic planning, distribution center design & implementation, and productivity improvement services (through operations improvement and engineered productivity standards/incentives programs) to retailers, wholesalers, and consumer products companies. Our key strength is in providing the “How-To” in implementing supply chain solutions, not merely providing recommendations. Our assistance is accomplished through an industrial engineering-based approach that delivers practical, cost effective and service efficient solutions.

Areas served: Worldwide - Servicing North and South America, Oceania, Asia, Europe and Africa

Professional Affiliations: APMHC, SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors), MHMS (Material Handling and Management Society of Southern California), FTASC (Foreign Trade Association of Southern California

Mission: "Helping companies optimize people, processes and performance to achieve their full potential."

Services: Productivity Constructs is a full service consulting organization specializing in industrial facility design and global supply chain solutions. We provide our clients with manufacturing and storage layouts, operating systems design, implementation of storage and material handling equipment and project management services.
Including:

• Logistics Strategy Planning
• Plant, Warehouse and Distribution Center Design and Layout
• Warehouse Management System Specifications
• Productivity Improvement Optimization
• Organizational Design
• Training Development Program

Executive and Managerial Development and Coaching Services including:

• Capacity and Throughput Strategy
• Distribution Execution Optimization
• Warehouse Management Execution
• Change Management Strategy
• Facility Design Planning
• Warehouse Performance Metrics Development

Global Supply Chain Solutions including:

• Network optimization
• Global Supply Chain Rationalization
• Inventory Optimization
• Global Sourcing
• Logistics Systems Integration
• Transportation Optimization
• Global Site Locations Services

Areas served: North America

Professional Affiliations: CSCMP, WERC, ASTL, NASSTRAC, APMHC

Services: We lever our experience and broad knowledge and assist small developing companies that need the help and advice of a competent practitioner who has actually managed complex and complicated supply chains, who has learned from both mistakes and successes who can be a "force multiplier" of knowledge and experience in the Supply Chain arena.

We help young (and not so young) companies to design supply chain strategy that supports their growth and helps them avoid business stunting mistakes. We also help companies that “ran into the wall” of mistakes, help them fix the issues and regain the growth momentum. We drive for innovative yet practical "win-win" solutions that provide positive growth for all parties.

We offer a broad range of advisory services, and when it is applicable help clients establish relationships with service providers, equipment suppliers and specialized professional services players. On behalf of the client we will deliver strategic / tactical planning and project management and act as a conductor of an "orchestra" of providers and suppliers.

Areas served: U.S. and Worldwide

Professional Affiliations: APMHC, MHMS, ASME, Master Brewers Association of America, National Beverage Packaging Association, Registered Professional Engineer-Missouri

Services: Material handling and logistics studies, facilities planning, site selection, design including equipment specification and facilities design, design/build total project management, and systems integration for food processing, beverage, distribution, aerospace, and general manufacturing industries.