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From the ground up, USC Consulting Group helps the building materials industry fine-tune their operations and improve their bottom lines.

Piecing the Parts Together: Glue for the Building Materials Industry (video)

February 18, 2019 / Building Products / Manufacturing / Process Improvement

From the ground up, USC Consulting Group helps building material manufacturers solve their sourcing problems, fine-tune their operations and improve their bottom lines. It all begins with a blueprint for success, developed …Read More

Building materials manufacturers are the backbone of the American housing industry and each business facet plays a pivotal role to the whole market.

Every Part Has a Purpose (Part 2): Building Materials Manufacturers Power U.S. Housing (infographic)

February 13, 2019 / Building Products / Manufacturing

In the blog Every Part Has a Purpose: Building Materials Manufacturing, we learned about a few of the challenges that the American housing market and its producers will be facing here in 2019. The number of wildfires occurring …Read More

Building materials manufacturing firms are the backbone of the American housing market, but will face significant obstacles that threaten future success.

Every Part Has a Purpose: Building Materials Manufacturing

February 12, 2019 / Building Products / Manufacturing / Supply Chain

Here are some of those challenges building materials manufacturing firms might encounter in 2019.Read More

Strategic Sourcing is an integral component of your supply chain that helps foster vendor relationships and lays the groundwork for sustainable success.

Understanding the Importance of Strategic Sourcing

February 5, 2019 / Spend Management / Supply Chain

An important lever for modern organizations. Sourcing is a key component of your Supply Chain – perhaps the most important part. As companies are navigating an increasingly turbulent yet robust economic climate, …Read More

Enterprises looking to upgrade their operations via internal improvement programs can avoid these missteps with a strategic roadmap.

Navigate Internal Improvement Programs With A Strategic Roadmap

January 30, 2019 / Process Improvement / Project Management / Supply Chain

How can enterprises looking to upgrade their operations via internal improvement programs avoid these missteps and the associated fallout? There are multiple solutions out there. However, few are as effective as roadmapping.Read More

Cultivate workflows that adhere to guiding principles by implementing these four workable strategies for achieving operational excellence.

4 Ways to Achieve Operational Excellence in the New Year

January 23, 2019 / Manufacturing / Process Improvement

Try these four workable strategies for achieving operational excellence.Read More

Businesses are becoming cognizant on how strategic sourcing methodologies exceed other long-established procurement practices.

What Does It Take To Make Sourcing Truly Strategic?

January 16, 2019 / Spend Management / Supply Chain

For businesses on the outside looking in on this development, it might be difficult to understand how strategic sourcing methodologies differ from other long-established procurement practices.Read More

The American forestry industry faces multiple large-scale challenges that threaten to erode recent gains and must address them to ensure future success.

3 Challenges Facing the American Forestry Industry

January 9, 2019 / Forestry Products / Knowledge Transfer

U.S. forestry faces multiple large-scale challenges that threaten to erode recent gains.Read More

To cultivate strong relationships and achieve success when collaborating with third-party consultants, leaders need to check their ego at the door.

Leaders and Egos: Check It at the Door

January 2, 2019 / Consulting / Office Politics / Process Improvement

To cultivate strong relationships with third-party consultants, executives must check their egos at the door.Read More

This showcase illustrates how USC Consulting Group leverages operating data with Microsoft Power BI to improve business performance in open pit mining.

Microsoft Power BI + USC Consulting Group = Mining Gold

December 11, 2018 / Consulting / Mining / Process Improvement

USC Consulting Group is a world-class operations management firm that for the past 50 years has helped mining companies around the globe improve their business performance by increasing throughput, reducing costs, …Read More

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