Supply Chain and Logistics
Smart Ventures believes a company's supply chain strategy can contain untapped and rapidly achievable opportunities for cost savings. We work to identify opportunities to re-think approaches and improve efficiencies in your global supply chain.
Regardless of the transportation mode, Smart Ventures can help identify cost-saving efforts that will have an immediate impact on financial results and EBITDA. We are subject matter experts at procuring full truckload (FTL), rail, barge, parcel, international freight forwarding, custom brokerage, and more. We also assist in establishing and implementing Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and metrics to aid in the on-going measurement of shipping costs and overall supply chain ROI.
Smart Ventures can also assist in creating a logistics and transportation function from the ground up or manage the operation on an interim basis.
Sales and Marketing
The sales and marketing function of a company is the center of its existence. Sales is the engine of an entity.
Smart Ventures can work with you to improve and optimize sales and marketing structures to yield a greater return on your sales and marketing investment. Solutions can be as simple as better organization and planning or realignment of resources to maximize performance and reduce cost.
- Total sales organization, assessment, and evaluation
- Sales and marketing strategy, planning, and implementation (including commissions and total compensation)
- Sales cost assessment
- Sales training and recruiting
- CRM strategy, development, and implementation
- Development of metrics for sales management
- Management of sales function on interim or outsourced basis
- Sales representation as proof of concept
- Full range of marketing services on interim or outsourced basis
- Export and international business development
Other Services
Smart Ventures has filled many roles in organizations across many industries and situations.
Our breadth of vision across multiple disciplines and industries provides us with the ability to look into a situation from multiple angles and identify underlying challenges as well as untapped opportunities.
Smart Ventures can provide an outside opinion, assessment or simply act as a sounding board.
- Supply chain or sales due diligence pre-acquisition
- Functional area assessment
- Mentoring
- Data assessment and modeling