Consumer Products
How Can We Help?
Synoptek helps their clients operationally respond to their customer. Synoptek's principal consultants have over 70 years experience in the consumer products and retail industries and have contributed to both industry publications and conferences. Synoptek works with their client's in the fast-moving world of consumer products to better understand the consumer, better serve their retail customers, deliver products that meet consumer needs and manage the supply-chain to maximize responsiveness around the globe. We also help manage costs by operating with less working capital–reducing inventory, reducing operational expenses and reducing the cost of goods sold. Synoptek consultants have served consumer products companies around the globe — and at home (Velcro Valley).
Strategy
Synoptek helps consumer products companies evaluate new growth and operational strategies. Our consultants have helped customers evaluate organic growth strategies such as new distribution channels or new product line strategies. In addition we have helped our clients consider acquisition candidates. Operationally, we have evaluated long-term supply-chain, distribution and sourcing strategies.
Operations
Synoptek has worked with consumer products to dramatically improve operations. Our consultants have helped clients reduce inventory, implemented productivity improvements in distribution centers, reduced manufacturing and design lead-times and helped clients open new facilities to support expanding growth. We have implemented both retail service programs and strategic supplier partnership programs to improve the overall efficiency of the supply-chain.
Project and Program Management
Most importantly — Synoptek gets things done. Regardless of the problem you are trying to solve or the change you are making to your business is — will we help you get it done? Synoptek leverages industry experience and broad process and systems knowledge to manage projects to fruition for consumer products companies. Representative projects include:
- Lead-time reduction for branded consumer products company
- Centralizing for 10 Asia Pacific countries for large apparel manufacture
- Managed post-merger integration for $500 million consumer products organization
- Managed SAP implementation for $7 billion CPG firm
- Standardized financial processes across divisions for a large CPG firm to enable shared-services organization
- Analysis of trade spending and trade spend reduction program
Representative Clients
- ConAgra Foods –
- London Fog –
- Goodmark Foods
- Calphalon –
Our consultants have also worked with companies like Levi Strauss — US, Disney, Levi Strauss Asia Pacific and Sara Lee.