Testimonials

"Total Value Optimization was the main reason why we selected SGS Maine Pointe. They could go across our manufacturing plants, our global supply chain, the leadership and organization and help us with developing sustainable processes and practices. SGS Maine Pointe helped us deliver on our highest level of revenue ever, we had a measurable improvement in EBITDA that was significant and beneficial to the company and we are going to continue to reap a return on our investment in the next year and a half."

"TVO is the best approach we have seen to achieve integrated supply chain excellence in operations, logistics and procurement."

"SGS Maine Pointe consultants, working side by side with our team, elevated our competitive edge in the market place and positioned our company to absorb additional work through sales via organic growth or mergers and acquisitions."

"Working with our leadership, middle management and on-the-ground teams, SGS Maine Pointe helped us deliver significant improvements in operational excellence and implement strategic procurement across our businesses. They brought the operating practices and the experience we needed to achieve measurable results for our business and our people."

"I am pleased to say the engagement was successful; the savings goals were achieved and, in certain cases, exceeded the initial expectations. As a result of the engagement we now have a better understanding of the risks and opportunities within our supply chain, which creates a competitive advantage for SunPower."

"The work SGS Maine Pointe has done, not just the results but the way they've gone about working with our people, is unlike anything I've ever seen."

"SGS Maine Pointe promised us industry experts and delivered. They promised us savings and delivered. They promised to leave us with a sustainable process that would continue to yield benefits years down and they delivered. All of this was done while maintaining and strengthening supplier relationships that we have had for more than 20 years. I have the highest regard for SGS Maine Pointe and am happy to recommend them to any company."

"This initiative has increased our understanding of the competitive dynamics within our supply chain as well as major risks and opportunities, and we are going to leverage this knowledge to create a competitive advantage."

"In an increasingly competitive market, we engaged SGS Maine Pointe to help us optimize key areas of the supply chain, with a primary focus on logistics and warehousing. SGS Maine Pointe's industry and subject matter experts conducted an analysis which identified significant savings potential across the workstreams. I am very pleased to report that at the conclusion of our 28-week engagement we achieved savings at the high end of the targeted range while also dramatically enhancing the customer experience."

"Having been involved in other procurement processes in the past, SGS Maine Pointe by far exceeds all other firms I have worked with and is the most professional and effective solution for achieving savings and operational excellence in strategic procurement. Not only did we exceed our savings goals, SGS Maine Pointe has enhanced our corporate culture as they set a high standard of professionalism and methodical processes that our team has adopted in other areas of the business. I would recommend SGS Maine Pointe to any company looking to change the game in their procurement function and to enhance the overall effectiveness of their company."

"SGS Maine Pointe’s approach to partnering is superior to other consultants I have worked with. The very disciplined methodology they employed delivered greater results, significantly faster than we could have achieved ourselves."

"The team tailored SGS Maine Pointe's collaborative, integrated TVO approach to the specific needs of each of our diverse business units, identifying opportunities and implementing sustainable growth and savings across our business."

"We chose SGS Maine Pointe because of their high level of personal attention, depth of experience, and professionalism. The results included strengthening our organization structure with a center-led procurement system. We could never accomplish this type of cultural change without the professional help of SGS Maine Pointe."

"I was shocked that together we identified, designed, agreed, and implemented a new approach that increased sales volume by over 50%. Now, several years later, we are still serving our clients with increasing bottom-line margins and continue to grow!"

"A strong spend management program that leverages the right approach can have a tremendous impact on working capital, cost control and reduction, and the bottom line. There are few comparable firms with the same impact. Enabling a quick start and having the safety net of a guarantee makes SGS Maine Pointe all the more attractive."

"I would highly recommend SGS Maine Pointe. Our experience has been excellent and the results speak for themselves."

"We chose to partner with SGS Maine Pointe based on their reputation and expertise within the private equity space, especially with organizational carve-outs and cost reduction exercises. Additionally, SGS Maine Pointe is known for its disciplined, well-defined process approach and commitment to delivering accelerated savings and benefits."

"One of the many strengths of the SGS Maine Pointe team was their communication and collaboration skills. SGS Maine Pointe personnel worked closely and effectively with our executive leadership and cross-functional teams to identify and capture significant savings across the enterprise-wide spend portfolio. I would recommend SGS Maine Pointe to any company looking to significantly improve their supply chain service offering and to enhance the overall effectiveness of their company."

"I was skeptical of the savings based on our experienced team and vendor knowledge. However, obtaining the bottom line 2 to 1 fee structure was not a problem and we achieved a number exceeding our internal forecast. When we interviewed the SGS Maine Pointe team they stated, ‘we typically achieve the high end of the mid-point,' and our project was no exception."

"Our experience with SGS Maine Pointe was a very positive one. Apart from the significant financial benefit accruing from our procurement and supply chain engagement, we will continue to benefit from the up-skilling of staff, process innovation and change mentality the engagement delivered. SGS Maine Pointe are professional partners, focused on delivery and making the results stick. I have no hesitation in recommending SGS Maine Pointe to others."

"Our initiative with SGS Maine Pointe has increased our understanding of the competitive dynamics within our supply chain as well as the risks and opportunities. Going forward, we will leverage these contributions to create a competitive advantage."

"Our project goals called for us to navigate the tumultuous waters of organizational change to capture more than $20M of annualized savings. Successfully guided, and appropriately pushed, by our SGS Maine Pointe partners, we are now well on our way to capturing those savings."

"SGS Maine Pointe’s ability to remain flexible and consistently adjust protocol as required to meet our organization’s needs resulted in a very successful relationship. The anticipated deliverables were realized while the SGS Maine Pointe team remained vigilant in addressing our concerns around change management and adaptability."

"The initiative has not only improved our standing within the existing supplier community but has also provided promising partnerships with new suppliers. These partnerships have revealed new capabilities which will add more incremental, long-term value, taking out cash, driving cost down, and enabling growth of new Sun-Maid products."

"We identified several functional areas representing immediate opportunities for sustainable organizational change achievable by high level consulting resources. SGS Maine Pointe’s industry reputation and mastery of the supply chain and logistics body of knowledge uniquely positioned them as the premier partner for this engagement."

"I would like to commend you for doing an outstanding job on our recent engagement to implement a Management Operating System and fast track a strategic procurement initiative to drive operational improvement in our business. The objectives were to drive double digit percentage improvement in our EBITDA by achieving 10% savings in our manufacturing costs and more than 5% savings on our raw material spend. I am pleased to say we met those objectives on time and within budget. SGS Maine Pointe’s Total Value Optimization and procedural approach, coupled with an accelerated schedule, were the key reasons behind our decision to move ahead with the engagement."

"We are ahead of our competition in the wake of the tariffs because of the savings we obtained from the project. We continue to cycle the PMOS process and strengthen our position by eliminating waste everywhere we see it. This engineering / procurement team are building skills as subject matter experts and supply chain managers, becoming an asset that will be hard to duplicate. We look at it as the moat surrounding the castle protecting us against competition."

"Many consulting firms will ask questions about your business and regurgitate it to you as a solution to the problem. SGS Maine Pointe’s approach was to deploy very knowledgeable technical detailed resources on the ground that worked hand-in-hand with our employees to understand the operation and develop the right tools for the business to drive the success we needed. From my experience, this sets SGS Maine Pointe apart from other consulting firms."

"I am happy to report that we were able to accomplish significant savings benefits and gain transparency into spend and supplier relationships as well as establish the groundwork for sustainable value as a result of SGS Maine Pointe’s Total Value Optimization™ approach."

"Working together with the SGS Maine Pointe team, we implemented a date management system for customer orders and a Management Operating System consisting of efficient and effective S&OP meetings and metrics. These tools will support and sustain the changes required to drive continued improvements in the future. As a result, we have increased visibility into upcoming shipments and production inventory issues and promoted collaboration between sales, planning and the plant. This has enabled better responsiveness to customer pick up times and other requirements and strengthened management's ability to set targets and measure performance. I would recommend SGS Maine Pointe to any company looking to enhance overall effectiveness."

"SGS Maine Pointe took us to a place we didn't know we could get to. Within the turn of a season, they gave us what would have taken three to four years to achieve."

"I was skeptical of the savings based on our experienced team and vendor knowledge. However, obtaining the bottom line 2 to 1 fee structure was not a problem and we achieved a number exceeding our internal forecast. When we interviewed the SGS Maine Pointe team they stated, ‘we typically achieve the high end of the mid-point,' and our project was no exception."

"Based on the value SGS Maine Pointe delivered through improving the operations in our Mesquite Mine in California, we agreed to work with them on a Strategic Procurement engagement involving all of our mines in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Australia. The major objectives were to deliver sustainable savings and to establish solid business processes. SGS Maine Pointe developed cross-functional teams, and worked closely with other Newgold personnel, to achieve sustainable savings across a broad spectrum of non-capital spend. Their approach in working with our people was key to our mutual success. The pragmatic approach of their team laid a solid foundation for ongoing improvements within the New Gold Materials Management organization. SGS Maine Pointe has had a positive impact on our procurement process."

"SGS Maine Pointe has been instrumental in helping guide PotashCorp with our long-term transportation and distribution strategy. With a tremendous team possessing expertise in many disciplines, they were able to communicate knowledge, and effectively transfer it, to our people. We have been extremely pleased with their performance."

"Through our project with SGS Maine Pointe, we connected decades of internal process knowledge with a contemporary 'tool kit' that delivered tremendous financial results. We took a very good business and made it a much better one. Our staff acquired new skills that have continued to guide our journey of improvement. The change process wasn't easy, but it was worth it, and we have regularly engaged SGS Maine Pointe as trusted, knowledgeable advisors long after the project concluded."

"Our supplier base now understands that Astec brings a much larger spend to the market than was previously visible, and our organization understands the risks and opportunities within our supply chain. I would recommend SGS Maine Pointe to any organization looking to transform its procurement, sales and operations planning and data analytics capabilities into competitive advantages."

"SGS Maine Pointe's well-educated professionals with their significant, practical, hands-on experience brought a unique set of competencies to the partnership with Solutia. Specifically, their capabilities and deep expertise in Operations Excellence and Logistics provided us with significant ROI across several of our divisions. They met or exceeded our expectations."

"SGS Maine Pointe's unique approach to organization and capability development has driven a significant and sustainable 6% reduction in total food cost."

"The engagement improved our standing not only with the supplier community but awakened new and promising partnership discussions with our current customers and brand owners. We can now leverage our growth not only with cost but, more importantly, around total supply chain efficiency."

"SGS Maine Pointe performed a comprehensive analysis of our company's Procurement and Logistics practices, assigning a very experienced team that worked diligently with our internal people to identify significant savings opportunities in direct raw materials purchases, indirect spending, and logistics. More importantly the processes, procedures, training, contract template and toolkit developed by SGS Maine Pointe forms a solid foundation and framework for Resco to maintain the savings long after the engagement has ended. Despite a myriad of challenges throughout the assignment, SGS Maine Pointe remained impartial, professional and focused. I would highly recommend them to any procurement organization looking to fast track the identification of opportunities."

"We are saving over $2 million per month and $24 million annually due to being in the rare circumstance of having customers who want as much as we can make. SGS Maine Pointe's ability to reduce our costs was a worthy accomplishment. However, it was the methods they employed to increase our throughput that was really outstanding. Our shareholders are both rejoicing and patting themselves on the back for having engaged SGS Maine Pointe."

"SGS Maine Pointe's unique approach to a savings guarantee for clients, combined with their deep knowledge and practical work experience in supply chain management, sets them apart from others. Through an intense evaluation of existing practices and their focus on low capital investment solutions, sustainable process improvements are developed and implemented that yield real and measurable benefits for the long term."

"The SGS Maine Pointe team applied a 'roll up your sleeves and get to work' approach to our engagement that identified areas for improvement as well as detailed processes to implement and monitor the success in sales and operations planning, maintenance and operations. Their team blended seamlessly with our personnel to work great together. All of the Albemarle team members enjoyed their interaction with SGS Maine Pointe and appreciated the leadership style that they brought to the project. We feel that our investment in SGS Maine Pointe was well worth it; the project rendered the tools and processes necessary for us to sustain improvements."

"SGS Maine Pointe assigned an experienced team and MRO industry experts that worked diligently with our existing procurement personnel to strategically source our entire professional and indirect materials spend. Given the diverse nature of BioScrip's locations, the initiative took several months to successfully implement. The processes, procedures, contract template and toolkit developed by SGS Maine Pointe laid a solid foundation for improvement going forward. Despite many challenges throughout the assignment, the SGS Maine Pointe team remained impartial, professional and focused on identifying strategic suppliers that would add value and reduce costs to BioScrip."

"I would recommend SGS Maine Pointe to any organization looking to optimize their supply chain capabilities."

"We embarked upon a strategic sourcing procurement project with SGS Maine Pointe within our Jen-Coat division. They assigned a team of experienced consultants and packaging industry experts that worked diligently with our existing procurement personnel to strategically source all of our existing raw materials and indirect materials spend. Following a very intense, challenging, and demanding seven months we jointly identified, and agreed on, a number of sourcing initiatives that will significantly add to the profitability of our Jen-Coat operating division. Despite many challenges throughout the assignment, the SGS Maine Pointe team remained impartial, professional, and focused."

"The real significance of this project outside the obvious immediate savings is the longer term value that GSE will receive in higher quality product at a lower purchase price."

"Thanks to SGS Maine Pointe, we are not only functioning as a single strategic sourcing unit but we now have the tools and vision to continue striving towards a world-class organization."

"It was a simple decision to bring in SGS Maine Pointe to support our management team in planning and facilitating the largest undertaking in our company’s history: a complete structural and cultural change for our operations. Each SGS Maine Pointe team member was a true expert in their field, able to share best in practice applications and maximize the value added."

"The SGS Maine Pointe team ‘opened our eyes’, challenged our thinking, and helped us reduce our total North American logistics costs to some 25% less."

"Congratulations to SGS Maine Pointe for a job well done. You have gone above your commitment and been instrumental in the building of our new plant as well as the success of our procurement team."

"The processes developed during this project have allowed us to re-address the relationships with our suppliers where GSE is the customer."

"I am happy to report that not only were our joint savings targets exceeded, but that our supplier relationships and transparency have also improved. The practical and hands-on approach of the SGS Maine Pointe team has laid a solid foundation for on-going improvements."

"SGS Maine Pointe worked quickly to improve CSX cycle time. Within the first month we had a meeting with the senior CSX team and a month after engagement we started seeing improved results."

"SGS Maine Pointe’s Operational Due Diligence services were critical in helping us gain insight and build confidence in the potential operational value creation opportunities for a strategic acquisition. The level of insight and category expertise demonstrated by their subject matter experts was second to none. I would not hesitate to recommend SGS Maine Pointe as a highly professional, responsive and results-driven partner."