CQL Business Consulting Services

Expert business consulting for cost savings, quality improvement, and logistics efficiency

Cost Improvement Strategies

We will identify Cost Improvement Strategies focusing on quick wins in procurement optimization and inventory management tailored to your organization. Our team can streamline your business practices, utilizing Lean principles, best practices and automation to help improve productivity and reduce unnecessary costs.

Quality Improvement Plans

Developing a Quality Management System (QMS) is a critical step in your organizations continuous improvement framework. This ensures products consistently meet all requirements, both inbound and outbound. We support each step in development, from audits to QMS tools and training, to risk identification, management and prevention. Our robust QMS training ensures that operations deliver safe, high-quality products efficiently, supporting both consumer confidence and any regulatory compliance.

Hire us to do a Waste Walk. This is a systematic process where our team goes through your office, workplace or production area to observe and identify any activity or process that does not add value to the final deliverable. We will pinpoint inefficiencies, help identify root causes, and develop strategies for improvement.

Completing a Waste walk is a pre-cursor to the CQL improvement plan for your organization and is business critical in developing a continuous improvement culture of proactive problem-solving and efficiency.

Waste Walk

Purchasing Services

Tired of your team just hitting the order button? Use our professional Purchasing Services to source, negotiate, and procure your goods and services. We leverage our expertise in supply chain management, vendor relations, and market analysis in various industries, such as food, manufacturing, and hospitality. Our service will develop sustainable processes, enabling your company to get the best price, quality and payment terms in every transaction.

Logistical Efficiencies

In Logistics, our team supports improvements in both external and internal moves. We can work to optimize routes, and develop processes to select cost-effective carriers via bidding. Further opportunities in window time efficiency, freight consolidation and LTL vs FTL are reviewed.

On the internal side, our lean experts can drive improvement to reduce product movement, optimize space utilization, and decrease storage costs by improving layout and organization. We are experts in implementing barcode scanning and WMS systems (Warehouse Management System) for real-time tracking and accurate stock/re-order levels.

Our team also has the ability to drive savings and efficiency in reverse logistics, to reduce the costs of returns and product disposals, especially in industries with high return rates.

With CQL's expertise in logistics operations, your business will become more cost-effective and efficient, leading to better resource allocation, improved customer satisfaction, and higher profitability.