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At The Progress Group, each of our senior consultants is accustomed to working as a facilitating member of a client team. Because we choose our projects carefully and limit the number we accept, we can focus our full attention on each project and give it our best thinking and resources.


Your success is our benchmark
While we’re able to bring a great deal to the party, ours is never the starring role. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with your company’s internal personnel in the environment of your own corporate culture. We understand that our job is to leave a stronger, more effective operation in place when the project is completed. And one of the ways we do this is by leaving you with a stronger, more capable internal team. At The Progress Group, we believe that achieving project goals is much more serious than just being able to say, “we made our deliverables.” When we leave, you stand poised for success.

A sigh of relief
When you need the kind of judgment that can come only from experience, a reliable counselor who never panics, a cool head under pressure, a proven coach and teacher . . . when you need “the best brains in the business,” you need a consultant from The Progress Group.


Jim Apple Jr. Manufacturing & Distribution Facility Design
Integrated Operations Design
Material Handling Systems Design
japple@theprogressgroup.com
Drew Hale

Facilities planning
Process Engineering
Material Handling System Design

dhale@theprogressgroup.com
Steve Mulaik

Labor Standards
Productivity Improvement
WMS Selection

smulaik@theprogressgroup.com
Bob Ouellette

Logistics Information Systems
Distribution, warehousing and fulfillment operations
Project Management & Integration

rmo@theprogressgroup.com
Judson Puterbaugh

Logistics Information Systems
Systems Design & Integration
Project Management

jputerbaugh@theprogressgroup.com
David Stallard Distribution Center Design
Material Handling System Design
WMS Requirements Planning
dstallard@theprogressgroup.com
Bruce Strahan Logistics and supply chain strategy
Facility network strategies
Tactical projects operations, infrastructure, inventory,
and transportation cost reduction
bstrahan@theprogressgroup.com
Paul Huppertz

Supply Chain Strategy & Design
Logistics Process Improvement

phuppertz@theprogressgroup.com
Yoel Yohan Process Improvement/Reengineering
Operations & Logistics
yyohan@theprogressgroup.com
Tom Gripman

Manufacturing and Distribution Facility Design
Warehouse Process Improvements
Warehouse Slotting Processes and Software Rationalization and Implementation

tgripman@theprogressgroup.com
Padmini Madarapakam Pagadala Supply Chain Integration/Strategy/Design
Operations Productivity
DC Design
Labor Model/Labor Studies
padminimp@theprogressgroup.com

When people do move on from TPG, it's typically to bigger and better things, and we'd like to believe that their time with us had helped to prepare them for the next stages of their professional lives. We are proud of our alumni, and how they've succeeded.

Click here for The Progress Group Alumni page


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