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Roy Strauss, President, Strauss Consulting Group, LLC
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Who is Roy Strauss, the Person?
Roy has a strong passion for his consulting practice and thrives on solving difficult problems for his clients and finding new opportunities for success and profitability that were previously not observed. Planning is key, and Roy’s clients are always in a position to know what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and what it will cost over a wide variety of contingencies. Roy's ability to foster teamwork and overcome resistance to change have resulted in hundreds successful projects over the 27 years of his consulting practice.
Roy Strauss has lived in Oakland, New Jersey for over thirty years after growing up in New York City. He has a close knit family with a married daughter and grandson in San Mateo, Ca. and a soon to be married daughter in New York. Roy loves to travel and is an avid photographer. He participates in most sports, has competed in two triathlons and is a golfer and a hiker.
Why is Roy a Supply Chain Expert?
Roy founded the Strauss Consulting Group in 1983 and has been helping clients improve profitability and competitive edge by optimizing customer service while reducing costs. Roy’s experience in monitoring, managing, planning, and executing in a hyper growth environment allows him to impart those skills to and create new systems for his clients. Roy's experience in running companies as well as consulting allows him to provide executive level services and general management acumen that go far beyond the walls of the distribution/manufacturing center. Roy has developed proprietary solutions for growth planning, product mix selection and inventory management that provide his clients with a distinct competitive advantage.
What Roy is Writing About and Why You Should Read It?
Roy is writing about how companies can optimize customer service while reducing costs for increased profitability for both distribution and manufacturing operations. Key areas include operational planning; optimizing and managing product mix and inventory; systemizing operations; how to determine how much space you need, where, and in which building; using technology to best advantage; and using the correct balance of staff, space, and equipment to achieve company goals.
How can Roy Add Value to Your Company
Roy's company the Strauss Consulting Group brings together the unique combination of skill sets, experience, and talent to help your company gain a competitive edge and achieve optimal profitability while lowering operational costs. Accomplishments include: design and implementation of warehouse management and operational software, creating management systems that facilitate monitoring key metrics and ease supply chain management at all levels, and in two cases provided solutions that actually “saving a client’s business.” Roy has lectured on and trained industrial real estate professionals on how to find the best building for a given operation.
Roy Strauss
Strauss Consulting Group, LLC
Skype: ris4u2
Office: 01-201-337-7108
email: rs@scg4u.com
Web: www.scg4u.com
Roy Strauss's Blog
Cycle Counting, Not Just For Inventory Accuracy and Security
Cycle counting in addition to improving inventory accuracy is also an excellent management tool for products of special interest, with specific characteristics, or for many different circumstances such as:
- Fast moving products or products in short supply that may require rationing or to be set aside for one’s best customers
- Products that are easily resold or have had previous inventory shrinkage
- Products that look similar to others or that can easily be mixed togeth
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Cross Docking To Save Time and Money
Cross docking is an excellent way to save money for warehousing and distribution companies when time is of the essence or the timing is just right. It allows items for customer orders to be transported from the receiving dock to the shipping dock door, the cross-docked product either to be shipped alone or added to an existing order. The key is that the product never leaves the dock area saving the time of transporting the receipt from the dock to the storage location and then picking the pro
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Two Excellent Applications for Voice Recognition
Many companies who use bar code technology are still plagued with excessive writing and/or data entry. This happens when many different types of information must be captured for each item during receiving and supplying vendors only bar code item numbers and/or descriptions and no other fields, or there are numerous potential next steps in the receiving process and they must be identified on the fly. These situations can occur whether for new receipts or returns (reverse logistics).
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Posted on November 5, 2009 at 5:00pm —
Purchasing From a Poor Power Position
When in a poor power position there are several things one can do to gain the favor of… Continue
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 6:00pm —
Product Mix vs. Customer Service vs. Profitability
We can calculate the cost of the extra warehouse spac… Continue
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 4:46pm —
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