This is an overview of CATTAN's supply chain management advisory, counseling and training services that feature its capabilities, expertise, and clients served. CATTAN specializes in purchasing, inventory, materials handling, freight traffic, and warehousing logistical functions

1. Advisory, Counseling and Training Services
Logistics and Supply Chain
Consultancy
College Station, TX
www.cattan.com
Let us put our experience to work for you.
Contact us at:
cattan@cattan.com
979 212-8200

2. Background—CATTAN Services
Group
 Founded in 1987, incorporated in 1991
 Focused on Logistics and Supply Chain
Management (SCM)
 Provide advisory, counseling, and training
services
 Specialize in purchasing, inventory, traffic, and
warehousing functions
 Cadre of staff Certified in Function
 Located in College Station, TX

3. How Can CATTAN Put Its Logistics &
SCM Experience to Work for You?
When it comes to logistics, knowledge is power: the more
you know about the “big picture,” the better you can
maximize a specific function. Since our staff have all
served in upper middle management to senior level
executive positions, we can take a conceptual,
philosophical, and strategic approach to understanding
your organization’s processes, methodologies, and
expenditures. Our insights are based on independent,
objective viewpoints which have been validated by our
experience with other organizations and business sectors.

4. A Complex Logistics Supply Chain
(Internet Enabled)
Supplier Wholesalers
Manufacturer Distributors Retailers
Supplier Logistics Customer
Exchanges Exchanges Exchanges
Logistics
Providers
Virtual
Manufacturers
Contract 1999 AMR Research
Manufacturers

5. How Can CATTAN Put Its Logistics &
SCM Experience to Work for You?
Our familiarity with defining logistics processes as related to
supply chain management practices allows us to know where to
look and what to look for when analyzing an operation. We use
that knowledge to help our clients identify specific problems as
well as opportunities, followed by a recommended course of
action to address them.
CATTAN has an excellent track record in guiding organizations
toward their supply chain management goals and logistics
objectives and in providing value-added counsel and advice. We
are not just purchasing, inventory, traffic, or warehousing
consultants but are true logistics and supply chain synthesizers.

6. Our Bona fides—Professional
Memberships and Affiliations

7. How Can CATTAN Put Its Logistics &
SCM Experience to Work for You?
At CATTAN, we will outline a consulting
engagement for your specific business or
operation. We will always meet with you before
submitting a proposal, so we have a complete
understanding of your plans, goals, strategies,
and objectives. Whenever a specified need can
best be addressed by the expertise of a
particular consultant or consultants, we put that
individual or individuals with you. If other
consultants are needed, we carefully pick and
add them, as necessary to help the client.

8. Use of Management
Consultants-WHY?
 Objectivity  Staffing
 Pragmatism Augmentation
 Specialized  Independent
Functional Skills Opinion
 Knowledge and  Confidentiality
Contacts  Experience with
Similar Problems

9. Industry Clients Served—CATTAN
Services Group
Government & Utilities &
 CATTAN has an Public Sector Telecommunication
extensive range of
consulting and on- Oil Processing
site training & Gas & Chemical
experience with a Healthcare & OEM
wide variety of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
clients and
industries. High Distribution
 We are functional Technology & 3PL
strategy and tactical Financial Service
experts Services Industries

10. How Can CATTAN Put Its Logistics &
SCM Experience to Work for You?
Since CATTAN conducts seminars globally for the
American Management Association, universities
and colleges, as well as professional associations
in our area of expertise, we are also well versed in
the most current Logistics trends and SCM
concepts in addition to the life lessons our
experience brings to the forum. Because we
practice what we teach, we can further assist our
clients during implementation through consulting,
coaching, and/or on-site training.
Let us put our experience to work for YOU!

11. Areas of Expertise--CATTAN
Services Group
 SCM Strategy and Reengineering
 Purchasing and Supply Management
 Warehousing and Materials Handling
 Traffic and Distribution Management

12. Functional Expertise—SCM
Strategy and Reengineering
 Strategy and Supply Chain
Streams
 Lean Process Management
 Network Analysis and Design
 Software Evaluation, Selection,
and System Requirements
 Operations Improvements, Cost
Savings, and Productivity
Enhancement
 Automatic Identification and
Technology Enablement
Opportunities

13. Functional Expertise—Purchasing
and Supply Management
 Total Spend Analysis
 Strategic Sourcing
 Supply Base Consolidation and
Rationalization
 Solicitation, Administration, and
Management of Contracts
 Legal Aspects and Contracting
 Supplier Relationship
Management
 Supplier Qualification, Selection,
and Evaluation
 Negotiation Planning and
Strategy
 Negotiation Coaching and
Counseling

14. Functional Expertise—Warehousing
and Materials Handling
 Facilities Planning and Design
 CAD Facility Layouts
 Material and Process
Flowcharting
 Capacity and Throughput
Analysis
 Storage Space Utilization
 SKU Density and Location
Slotting
 Inventory Analysis, Control,
Forecasting, and Management

15. Functional Expertise—Traffic and
Distribution Management
 Outsourcing Feasibility
 Solicitation and Selection of
3PLs
 Carrier, Traffic Lane, and
Distribution Network Analysis
 Carrier and 3PL Rate
Negotiations
 Carrier and Mode Bid
Packages Solicitation
 Inbound Freight Control
 International/Import-Export

16. CATTAN CAN—
Produce Results for You
 We are known as the “hands-on” people.
 We “practice what we teach.”
 We are known for our functional expertise,
analytical abilities, operations acumen,
and common-sense approach.

17. CATTAN CAN—
Produce Results for You
 We do not provide “canned” solutions, layouts,
or approaches.
 We do not use template scenarios to produce
generic solutions.
 We do not use consultants with little consulting
experience or relevant operational expertise.
 We do not make recommendations and then
disappear when implementation time rolls
around.

18. Summary—Why CATTAN?
No Pre-conceived Solutions
No Template Scenarios
Unique Solutions for Your Situation
Thank you for the
opportunity to present
our credentials.