The Story of Our Beginning
I started my company right after the 9/11 disaster and the economy was frozen, and I was hungry for work with a family of six. I created ways to meet with general managers and VP of operations. My pitch? Let me briefly meet with you and review your operations and I will provide ideas for significant improvements, and you don’t need to pay me unless you like the results. Most paid me but not all. I learned how to be efficient and I learned how to listen to what was valuable to my customer, and I did whatever it took to provide that value and make a living from these no-obligation agreements. Many of these clients learned to like me and trust me and provided references, which made it easier to land more work. They told their CPA firms about me and CPA firms hired me to work for their clients. I provided over a hundred of these quick consulting stints for one CPA firm, and the client expectations were high and unforgiving. This taught me the value of first impression, and to quickly see the big issues and focus on high-impact solutions to provide value for my short time in their plant. I was transformed by these earlier experiences to really understand our value proposition in every engagement, and how critical it is to provide excellent results and service.
I am thankful for these tough experiences and lessons and I try to instill these into the culture of Kocer Consulting and Engineering. There is nothing better than a happy customer and a great reference after a challenging project, knowing that we leave their company in a better state than it was when we started.
Daniel J Kocer, PE
President and Owner
Kocer Consulting and Engineering
About Kocer Consulting and Engineering
Kocer Consulting and Engineering has been helping companies to improve and adapt their operations and systems for 20 years and has provided value to over 800 national and international companies in aerospace, medical, food processing, manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain.
Companies call Kocer to:
1) plan and manage change to align operations with their new business strategy.
2) help with business systems strategy, needs assessment, software and resource selection and transition.
3) empower their workforce through training and facilitating Lean Thinking, production management, and continuous improvement.
4) provide a technical study to determine the root cause of their burning problem, a feasible solution and professional change management.
We provide what our customers want and need – Project Leaders, Consultants and Engineers that are experienced, educated, reliable, innovative, organized, hands-on operations experts that communicate clearly and are good at collaborating with people at all levels.
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Our Team
We are unique in our extensive experience with hands-on implementation that gives us the insight to provide ideas and solutions that are practical and feasible when applied to real-world operations. We are results-oriented with the end goal in mind, and our approach is team-oriented and focused on the customer and their operational performance. These organizational values have proven to be beneficial for our clients and our firm.
Depth of Experience
Broad Base of Knowledge
Continuous education and learning are one of the cornerstones in the success of Kocer Consulting and Engineering. We attend seminars and professional organizations, read publications from experts around the world, and regularly visit supply chain, manufacturing and distribution operations to see best practices in action.
Reliability
Long-Term Relationships with Clients
Our Testimonials
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We recently acquired a chemical plant and a new product line, and we hired Kocer Consulting + Engineering to help our staff to manage the transition and implement our ERP system for these new operations. Kocer played an important role in helping us to meet our tight six-month deadline. They facilitated a collaborative effort and involved everyone in the scheduling of the project, helped to track and monitor progress, provided support for documentation and mapping of the production and business processes and supported the testing and configuration of the ERP through completion. They worked closely with our internal PM and the entire management team and were greatly appreciated and respected by all. Both operations were successfully launched and operating with the new ERP on time and within budget. When we compiled the lessons learned survey from our staff at the end of the project it was very clear that the support from Kocer was a major contributor to our success. I highly recommend hiring Kocer Consulting + Engineering for managing and supporting ERP implementations and operational transitions.
Legend Brands ERP Implementation and Operational Transition (Russ Wilson, CFO)
Kocer Consulting + Engineering has provided us with a strategy to improve our company. Their assessment of our operations and current ERP system was very thorough and included many ideas to be more profitable. The benefits of each improvement opportunity was fantastic and they provided a roadmap for how to implement. In addition, they were conscious of our price target and timeline. They were able to research and secure a significant amount of grant funding from the State of Washington to pay for improvements. I would highly recommend their services and we are planning on working more with them in the future.
Peripheral Visions, Inc. (Kent Laverdure, President)
We partnered with Kocer Consulting + Engineering to review our Distribution Center capacity and to review our current processes and suggest solid process improvements. Dan Kocer and his team more than met our expectations by delivering a complete and thorough analysis. They met with our staff and took the time to understand our operation from top to bottom and were able to provide actionable suggestions all through the process. I see no reason why we wouldn’t continue to work with Dan Kocer and his team in the future.
Osprey Packs, Inc. (Larry Bratton, Director of Distribution)