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ABOUT US

OUR MISSION:

Inviscid Consulting helps businesses plan and streamline their warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution operations to drive down operating costs, boost capacity, improve service levels, and mitigate risk.

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INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

  • Multi-channel / Omnichannel retail

  • Direct-to-consumer / Ecommerce / Catalog

  • Consumer goods

  • Apparel / Footwear

  • Food / Beverage / Grocery

  • Pharmaceutical / Health and life sciences

  • Industrial / Automotive / Aerospace

  • High-tech / Electronics

  • Mining and drilling

  • Wholesale / General distribution

  • 3PL / Outsourced fulfillment

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CAPABILITIES

  • Strategic planning and optimization of logistics networks

  • Conception, modeling, analysis, reengineering, design, and activity-based costing (ABC) of warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution operations and business processes

  • Site selection and systematic layout of supply chain facilities

  • Economic evaluation, justification of alternative solutions, and development of business cases

  • Design, estimation, specification, selection, and implementation project management of material handling and storage equipment and systems and supply chain information systems

  • Lean warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution process improvement

  • Improvement of labor productivity, resource utilization, storage, and production capacity, and service levels and mitigation of operational risk

  • Evaluation and selection of third-party logistics (3PL) providers

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SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS EXPERTISE

  • Warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse control systems (WCS)

  • Labor management systems (LMS)

  • Transportation management systems (TMS)

  • Logistics network optimization systems

  • Inventory management and optimization

  • Slotting systems

  • Production and order picking systems

  • Material handling, storage, and sortation equipment, systems, automation, and robotics

  • Packaging, labeling, and auto-ID systems

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Warehousing Education and Research Council
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Association for Supply Chain Management
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
Materials Handling and Management Society

Stephen (Steve) T. Hopper, PE

  • Board-certified, licensed, registered Professional Engineer (PE)

  • Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE), The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

  • Past President, Atlanta, Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)

  • Past President, Atlanta, Materials Handling and Management Society (MHMS)

  • Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

  • Past President, Atlanta, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

  • Certified Instructor, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM, formerly APICS)

Inviscid Founder: Steve Hopper, Supply Chain Operations Expert and Consultant

OUR FOUNDER

Stephen (Steve) T. Hopper, PE, is Founder and Principal of Inviscid Consulting. Over more than three decades, Steve has helped hundreds of clients plan and streamline their warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution operations by driving down operating costs, boosting capacity, improving service levels, mitigating risk, implementing effective supply chain solutions, emphasizing safety, and enhancing the performance of their supply chain resources: people, processes, inventory, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, transportation assets, and supply chain information technology (IT). He has worked with clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

Steve earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and is a board-certified, licensed, registered Professional Engineer (PE). He has served as an expert witness on dozens of cases involving supply chain operations in the US, Canada, and Australia and has advised private equity and venture capital investors. Steve also serves as a member of the Canvass Committee with the Material Handling Institute (MHI), which establishes industry standards for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). He has also been interviewed by the supply chain industry media, authored articles for industry publications, and spoken at industry events.

You can schedule a free consultation with Steve, download his personal bio, download a list of some of his past clients, or requrest his detailed CV.

WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING

19

Years in Business

100s

of Clients' Operations Improved

$1B+

of Reductions in Operating Costs

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