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Each project The Progress Group accepts is a custom project. Each is built with the client’s business goals, challenges and opportunities in mind. Projects range across a broad spectrum of industries. To find out more about what we do, how we approach projects or just for a taste of how we think, click any link on this page.

We provide a wide variety of consulting services for different stages of your supply chain. Click on the segment of the chain where you believe you need help, e.g. If you need a more efficient warehouse design, click on the warehousing segment.

Supplier
Getting excellent work out of your suppliers is one of the hallmarks of successful supply chain management. Forming the right partnerships on the right terms and then developing strong working relationships are key components of these efforts. The Progress Group can help you, with processes and perspectives garnered from our work with companies who have succeeded in this area.
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Manufacturing
What might you see if you took a fresh look at the manufacturing link in your supply chain from a logistics perspective? The Progress Group can help you bring the issues into focus, finding opportunities for improved efficiencies and cost savings.
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Warehousing
How could your warehouse system work better? Whether your issues are with technology, equipment, facilities or productivity, The Progress Group can help, with proven processes, integration solutions and trouble shooting expertise.
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Transportation
So, how’s it going? Having the systems in place for objective transportation planning and management can make a tremendous difference in enterprise profitability. The Progress Group can help you improve the performance of the transportation link in your supply chain by applying strategy and process planning, outsource management, benchmarking and asset management.
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Customer
Everyone agrees that focusing on the customer is a good thing. But while a top-down mandate for a customer-oriented attitude is a fundamental building block, it takes a lot more than attitude to turn a customer focus into a profit center. So if you could use some help with proven, structural solutions for the customer link in your supply chain, give us a call. We’ll help you take your customer focus to a whole new level.
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Total Supply Chain Management
Can you see the forest for the trees? Take a walk down, around and through your supply chain with a Progress Group team. You’ll see it through our eyes – eyes that have seen and guided other leading companies through similar forests – and gain new perspective you can use to improve your supply chain and increase profits.
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Logistics Information Systems
Choosing the right technology and the right provider can set your IS project out on the right foot – or not. Once these selections have been made, your project team faces an implementation process fraught with opportunities for significant delays, cost overruns, performance issues and generalized shame and embarrassment. Here’s how The Progress Group can help.
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Opportunity
Identify & prioritize potential opportunities to support your business objectives.
Every Progress Group project is a custom project based on the client’s current challenges and goals for the future. We then identify and prioritize the logistics strategies and tactics for achieving those goals. These may include reducing costs, improving service and addressing systems deficiencies. The Progress Group brings extensive knowledge of effective best practices and emerging trends to each project. We can help you decide which options will work best for you now and in the future in the context of where you are and what you hope to accomplish.
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Perspective
Evaluate, measure & refine the “finished product” after implementation.
At this stage of the process, The Progress Group fully turns over the keys to the internal client team to manage the program. After having worked shoulder-to-shoulder with each team member along the way, we complete the process by leaving you with a group that is tuned in, motivated and committed to keeping the program going. We help the operational team begin to utilize the performance measures developed earlier as a way to ramp-up the learning curve to meet full expectations and benefits. Beyond the start-up, these tools will be essential for supporting continuous improvement and avoiding complacency.
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Strategy
Develop & design logistics strategies and operational solutions.
Once the key improvement options have been outlined in the “Opportunity” stage of the process, The Progress Group works in a team configuration with key representatives of the client company to evaluate the options and to develop an integrated set of strategic recommendations aimed at achieving the overall project objectives.
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Implementation
Support or manage the implementation of recommended logistics programs.
If a new operational program isn’t in line with the way the firm is accustomed to doing business, compliance may be hard to come by. That’s why The Progress Group makes sure that what gets implemented works – not just from a “we met the deliverables” standpoint but from an internal motivation and compliance standpoint.
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