Manufacturing, Distribution and Trade

In today’s challenging business environment, it’s critical that every aspect of your company be operating at peak efficiency. Manufacturers, distributors and retailers are being challenged as never before by today’s global economy. Developing your competitive edge requires streamlining your operations and managing with vision. Distribution and manufacturing are two areas that can return the investment in strategic processes by improving customer satisfaction, lowering administrative and carrying costs, and responding to changing market opportunities and challenges. The Revere Group’s distribution and manufacturing solutions are designed to help you maximize operational efficiency by increasing productivity and profitability.

Companies must address tough questions every day to stay competitive:

Are my forecasts as accurate and reliable as possible?
Have I removed variance and waste from all my processes?
Have I established the most efficient links from my suppliers, through my operations, into my customers?
Can I rely on my key partners for long-term, high-quality materials and parts supply?
Have I mitigated the highest risk areas across my supply and distribution chains?

Our Manufacturing, Distribution and Trade industry team can help your organization address these and many other critical questions. We are recognized subject matter experts with many years of functional experience—from demand planning to store operations. Our experts implement improvements using better practices ensuring operational visibility while managing supply chain risk.

Operational Efficiency

Global competition is driving manufacturers, distributors and retailers to reduce costs and eliminate waste from every process and product.

The Revere Group applies two main methods—Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma—when working with clients to design and implement operational efficiencies. Lean manufacturing is a process improvement method focused on reducing waste and Six Sigma is a process improvement method focused on reducing process variation.

Analytics and Collaboration

Manufacturers, distributors and retailers need the right information at the right time to support strategic decision making and respond to daily challenges. Timely, accurate and actionable operational performance metrics rely on data from many sources across complex manufacturing and distribution networks.

The Revere Group combines years of industry experience with deep technical expertise and leading analytics tools to help you build effective reporting and analytics solutions. Our solutions, built on data from across your network, can transform your ability to compete.

Interactive Services

The world of manufacturers, distributors and retailers is increasingly one of collaboration and “co-opetition.” The next generation of web capabilities, Enterprise 2.0, offers alternative ways to enable these new business dynamics. The Revere Group can help you develop an Enterprise 2.0 strategy that engages your entire trading community across all of your business functions.

Enterprise Platforms

Enterprise platforms for manufacturers, distributors and retailers have expanded to enable nearly all processes—from relatively simple accounting transactions to complex network optimization algorithms.

The Revere Group’s functional and technical expertise includes leading enterprise applications and many niche applications, e.g., demand planning. Our expert teams strike the right balance of process improvement, technology innovation and organizational readiness to ensure that enterprise platform implementations are truly transformational.