Company Profile Client Relationships Types of Assignments Contact Information Company Profile Stone Management Corporation, founded in 1969, is one of the oldest and largest management consulting firms specializing exclusively in transportation and logistics. For over 28 years, our firm has helped Fortune 500 and middle-market companies achieve measureable results in the form of lower costs and higher service levels. Our competitive strength is our abiltiy to implement solutions drawn from our extensive, practical knowledge base in transportation, distribution network design, inventory management, order fulfillment, and warehousing. Each of the principals and associates of our firm has over 20 years of hands-on industry experience, having held senior managment postitions in logistics with companies such as Ford Motor, Quaker Oats, Sherwin Williams, and the Austin Company. W e attempt to understand the company's mode of operation and it decision-making process.
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W e introduce the members of our project team to the group they will work with in the company. We spend a good deal of time on this step, because it enriches and intensifies the understanding of both parties of the opportunity at hand, as well as their comfort with one another. W e quantify and measure what is expected form each assignment. For in all but strategic and organizational assignments, the very rationale for a consulting project is achievement of profit improvement. Some things, such as reducing freight cost or improving inventory turns, are easy to measure.