Trucking
- Accounting/ Billing, including paper billing, EDI/online billing, 210ing, billing to Factoring Companies
- Collection
- Drivers Payroll
- Office Payroll
- Fuel Postings
- Drivers’ Settlements
- Repair-Order Entries
- EFS Invoicing
- Shop Invoices
- Preventive Maintenance – 90 days and Oil Change
- Safety – Hours of Service audit (logbooks), Fixing logbooks, PC time
- Safety – Drivers File Management
- Safety – Vehicle File Management
- Asset Tracking – Tractors’ tracking, Trailers’ (empty & loaded) Tracking,
- Asset Tracking – Maintaining Trailers’ pool as per shippers’ requirements
- After-hours Update (including phones and emails)
- Drivers Management/ Dispatch
- CSR data entry Support
- IT/ Software support
Asset Utilization
We assess the actual usage of equipment, maintenance processes and efficiency of the maintenance process. It is very common for the organizations to have under-utilized assets.We review the current process and identify gaps against best practices. Our bottom-up analysis helps determine the right asset availability for the right job at the right time.
Production Planning
SKU Rationalization – We use analytical processes to review and identify SKUs that don’t meet profitability targets. Under-performing SKUs create additional burdens on the supply chain.
Inventory Reduction – Many organizations have issues with incorrect material available at incorrect time. Business Intelligence (BI) coupled with the Pull process, not only help reduce inventory costs but also help reduce material shortage. We help get the right inventory at the right time.
SIOP – It’s a collaborative approach between multiple departments to review sales plans and remove any barriers in achieving the sales targets. Plan takes into account the projections made by sales and marketing departments, new product launches, product phase-out plan, inventory, resources available from manufacturing, engineering, purchasing and finance are directed towards hitting the objective. It is a dynamic process updated on a regular basis. SIOP enables businesses to refine their long term plans.
SIOP Goals –
- Get sales plan, operation and finance on the same page.
- Measure sales, inventory, operations, planning and procurement’s actual performance against the plan.
- Remove silos and focus on team-work.
- Ensure that plans are realistic.
- Have top management’s blessings so that changes are managed effectively.
- Better managed inventory levels and customer service levels.
MPS – MPS helps businesses manage their finite resources in an efficient way to reduce waste and improve customer satisfaction. MPS objective is to create a plan that allocates resources so that product or services are delivered on time and lowest possible cost.
Procurement
Supplier Selection
We help businesses through our tested supplier selection process to qualify suppliers that fits company culture and provide value to the business. Below are some of the processes we help businesses with.
-Total cost of ownership
-Customer Profiling
-Vendor Profiling
-Scope of service/material created
-RFP requested from vendors
-Should cost analysis
-Negotiation
-Vendor proposal review and ranking
Supplier Management
We customize a set of supplier management tools and KPIs needed to manage supplier information, relationship and performance and drive more value across the organization.
Procure to Pay – We develop, streamline, optimize start to end procure-to-pay process, to maximize adoption, compliance and productivity. Based on an organization’s need, we can train teams or manage purchase orders (call-offs, blanket, inventory), process invoices and make payments.
Performance ratings- based on the business needs our team of experts help create the rating metrics which track the performance of the suppliers.
Inventory management
We plan for every part to set up the visibility of all the items on BOM to help shorten the lead times, optimize inventory, prevent stockouts, and reduce storage costs. We also help track and manage all direct materials inventory, analyze to set minimum stock limits to trigger an automatic re-order and vendor managed inventory. We develop the vendor forecast to give your vendor the ability to plan and manage inventory levels and transportation.
Mold design & Development Sourcing
We handle the mold design and development process for the organizations in a cost-effective manner without compromising the quality and service.
Contract Manufacturing
Our experts can help qualify contract manufacturers to meet your service, quality and pricing needs. We handle source-to-pay to procure-to-pay processes for contract manufacturing.