Strategic and Operational Consulting for Growers
Does your organization want to grow and reach the next level?
Are you trying to decide if you can take on that new opportunity?
Has one of your big customers changed the business model and now you have to adapt?
Or you are struggling with production, operation, or profitability issues?
Our experienced consultants, who have run both large and small growing operations selling to all manner of customers including nationwide retail chains, can provide an understanding partner to help you assess, revise, and improve your strategic and tactical direction and operating results. We can help a grower operation in several specific areas.
Grower Strategy Assessment And Strategic Planning
An in-depth guided process to assess, evaluate and define or refine your corporate strategy and help define plans to achieve your goals and objectives.
- Most executives spend less than 20% of their time on corporate strategy. The demands of running a business turn us into firemen and firewomen.
- A business leader should be spending 50% of their time thinking about and executing their strategic plan
- A third party observer can often see things we cannot and help keep the team members on task when the demands of day to day business pull you away
KPI Analysis/Definition
What are the measurements you need to get better visibility to your business and make better operational decisions? We can help with analysis and definition of the Key Performance Indicators to use to assess your progress toward your objectives.
Grower Management Processes
Do you have a system for managing your business, with clearly defines roles, responsibilities, and processes for your different areas? Our guided process can help define and clarify these areas to improve coordination across your organization.
Executive Coaching And Development
Talk with consultants who have been in your place and can ask insightful questions and provide objective, experienced based guidance, and feedback from a wide range of operation types and scenarios to help you work through problems and achieve your objectives.
Grower Organizational Development
Do you have the right players on the bus? Are the players in the right seats on the bus? Do you need specific feedback on specific key areas of your labor force or management team? Get guidance on specific development, assignment, and developmental training for your key personnel.
Retail Sales Planning And Forecasting Strategy
Planning and pricing for your customer set is a hugely important task that takes a lot of work. Our consultants can work with you to help with processes, data, and what to consider in terms of pricing your plans to maximize your profit.
- As growers and suppliers, our job has changed. No longer can we be driven solely by our production team and what we are used to producing in a certain week.
- Forecasts should be sales driven through the use of data and market insight.
- Cutting through mountains of data to come up with a plan that makes sense can be a truly daunting task.
Pay By Scan / Vendor Managed Inventory Strategy
Vendor managed inventory is becoming a reality for more and more growers. It has different risk vectors and considerations than traditional PO based business or ad hoc sales. Our consultants have been there from the beginning of pay by scan (and its alternate relatives) and can help you clarify the risks and how to best plan, price and execute your vendor managed inventory programs.
Product Pricing and Costing
We can assist with planning pricing activities and helping you decide what product pricing and mix can be effective for your business. We can help you assess and evaluate your costing mechanisms and provide insight and data help to improve your costing which will help your pricing efforts.
Operational Efficiencies
Having operated many types of facilities over the years we can come in and help you objectively assess areas of your operation regarding production, item movement, shipping, and labor.
Replenishment, Merchandising, And Product Flow
Getting the right product in the store at the right time and keeping it looking right for the end consumer to maximize profit potential takes a coordination effort. We can help you plan and improve the merchandising and replenishment activities.
Engaging with AGS is a refreshing change from other hands-off vendors. You will find our consultants easy to work with, knowledgeable, and care about helping our customers achieve the results they seek. We can structure consulting packages to meet your needs, desired results, and budget. Contact Us to find out more about how we can help you improve your growing business.