Benfield Consulting is a specialized consultancy for industrial manufacturers and industrial distributors. The firm was started in 1998 and is located in a suburb of Chicago. The company offers marketing, sales, and operations consulting for manufacturers and distributors who market through industrial channels.

Benfield Consulting offers experienced site consulting with seasoned professionals. Scott Benfield, the company founder, is a two decade veteran of industrial manufacturing and distribution. He worked for two decades in industrial markets with Fortune rated companies, international distributors, and manufacturer's representatives. Benfield Consulting Associates have experience in Fortune Rated Companies and carry Graduate Business and Doctoral Degrees from leading institutions.
 

Mr. Benfield's practical experience offers a perspective not found in many agencies where project work and supervision is often done by career consultants or academics turned consultant. The company and its Associates have managerial and executive experience in distribution and industrial products companies.

Unlike many industrial channel consultancies, the company spends significant time in analysis and devising custom solutions for clients.  The company does not sell "band-aid" solutions that fix symptoms.  The firm gets to root problems and develops long-term profit making strategies.

Benfield Consulting has done work for Fortune ranked companies as well as regional firms. Projects include work in pricing strategy, sales force design and restructuring, channel design and management, efficiency of solicitation models, service development and service productivity. The firm also participates in a variety of research projects and speeches for industry associations.

Check out Scott's new articles:

> The Impact of Off-Brands on Financial Performance
An analysis of financial data for electrical wholesalers.

> Transaction Management
Why is wholesale distribution a low-profit business? The authors contend that wholesale distribution is a low profit business not because of the type of firm, its historic value proposition, its place in the industrial channel, or private ownership, but largely because of misunderstanding and poor measurements of how profit is generated. 

> The Changing Economics of Industrial Channels
These economic effects are the result of globalization, consolidation, and the ability to conduct business 7/24 with immediate information on price and availability...

> Read an interview between Scott Benfield and Green Construction Purchasing editor Paul Markgraff about Disruption in the Channel.

What's new

Disruption in the Channel
For more information or to order a copy of Scott Benfield and Steve Griffith's new book, click here.

Read an interview between Scott Benfield and Construction Purchasing editor Paul Markgraff.

For more information:

Restructuring the Distribution Sales Effort for Maximum Productivity
For more information or to order a copy of Scott Benfield and Rich Vurva's new book, click here.

Check out Scott's new white papers:
> Editorial: Farr side of Emerson

> White paper: Cowboy Economics in the Durable Goods Supply Chain: The Chisholm Trail to Destruction

Check out Scott's books:

> Restructuring the distribution sales force

Pricing Management
For more information or to order a copy of Scott Benfield's book, click here.

 

Benfield Consulting Co.
423 Warwick Drive
Naperville, IL 60565
630.428.9311 bnfldgp@aol.com

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