Testimonials

Oak Hills Carton

Bob is a roll up your sleeves and get involved consultant. Consultants analyze your financals and make recommendations. With Bob’s operating experience, he also immersed himself in the operation to understand how it works and then developed a program to address issues and opportunities.

Bob helped us establish inventory turnover measurements and goals as well as receivable collection procedures and number of day’s receivables, which improved our cash flow and operating costs.

Bob recommended establishing labor productivity measurements and goals, which have helped improve our efficiency and cut labor costs. He also recommended establishing quality measurements and goals, which have reduced the cost of our credits.

With quantified, measurable goals in place, we are able to evaluate our people’s performance based upon results. This has given us the ability to change our culture and hold people accountable. This has tremendously improved our profitability.

Bob reestablished our profit goals and got our pay-for-performance plan off of the ground. He provided good sound advice when our results were significantly exceeding our profit targets. Not only that, but he has continued to be a wise sounding board, someone I trust to give me straight answers to questions…no fluff.

As a result of Bob’s efforts, our percent ROS (return on sales) has almost doubled despite an economic recession.

I highly recommend Bob to anyone who wants to increase their bottom line.

Ken Kabel
President, Oak Hills Carton
Cincinnati, Ohio

Platsky, Inc.

Bob Papes worked closely with out operations employees. As a result, Bob helped us implement new freight procedures and policies, which eliminated most of our outside trucking expenses and lowered the cost of our own internal shipping expenses.

Bob developed a new order picking incentive program for our warehouse crews, which resulted in improved productivity and lower labor costs. His recommendations resulted in replacing our warehousing and shipping manager, which resulted in a more efficient and effective operation.

Bob recommended that our sales reps have their vehicles loaded and that they be out on the road first thing in the morning rather than be waiting as long as an hour and a half to get out the door. This significantly improved our sales coverage and number of sales calls. He worked with us to develop the discipline to improve our inventory turnover and past due receivables levels, which improved both our cash flow and our operating costs.

Bob’s work resulted in annual profit improvements in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fortunately, these new programs were put in place before the current economic recession. Which the recession has impacted our business; these new programs have give us the ability to weather the storm.

I highly recommend Bob to anyone who needs to improve their bottom line.

Jan Aranoff
Vice President, Platsky
Westbury, NY

Simply Perfect Products

Starting a new business is filled with unknowns and risks, but carries the hope that in the end there will be rewards. Bob Papes brought the experience and insight we needed to put the pieces of the “new business puzzle” together in such a way that the unknowns became a whole lot clearer, and the risks were minimized. Getting the help you need is vital to your success, and Bob has proven to be an invaluable resource in our ongoing quest to put the pieces of the” business puzzle” together.

Bob Hamrell
President
SimplyPerfect Products, LLC

C & H Electric

While Bob, as most consultants, first do the financial analysis, with his operating experience, he also got intimately involved in how we operate. He determined that our field labor costs, which for a large commercial electrical contractor like us, were significantly overrunning our job quotes.

By going out into the field, Bob then determined that we were not effectively holding our field supervisors accountable for managing productivity and costs. While we were incurring significant labor cost overruns, we were giving our field supervisors good performance reviews.

Bob worked with our project managers and developed a field labor tracking process, which enabled our project managers and field supervisors to more effectively manage our field labor costs. He then worked with our operating people to develop new job descriptions for our entire workforce. He then developed results oriented job performance evaluations for our key personnel positions.

The combination of these new processes enabled us to achieve significantly improved accountability for results. The combination of these actions resulted in profit improvements in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

With Bob’s help, we also implemented a detailed predetermined profit plan, which we started measuring our actual results against. This enabled us to determine whether we were ahead or behind our profit goals and to take timely action where required. This also significantly contributed to our profitability improvement.

Thankfully we were able to implement these new programs ahead of the current recession. While the recession has hurt our business, the programs we were able to implement through Bob’s work have enabled us to weather this massive economic storm.

We highly recommend Bob Papes to anyone who needs to improve their bottom line.

Robert Cordeau
President, C&H Electric
Waterbury, CT

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