Risk Management Strategy
Accredited Consulting Service for Mr. Cuzziol Accredited Senior Consultant (ASC)
The Appleton Greene Accredited Consultant Service (ACS) for Risk Management Strategy is provided by Mr. Cuzziol and provides clients with four cost-effective and time-effective professional consultant solutions, enabling clients to engage professional support over a sustainable period of time, while being able to manage consultancy costs within a clearly defined monthly budget. All service contracts are for a fixed period of 12 months and are renewable annually by mutual agreement. Services can be upgraded at any time, subject to individual client requirements and consulting service availability. If you would like to place an order for the Appleton Greene Risk Management Strategy service, please click on either the Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum service boxes below in order to access the respective application forms. If you have any questions or would like further information about this service, please CLICK HERE. A detailed information guide for this service is provided below and you can access this guide by scrolling down and clicking on the tabs beneath the service order application forms.
Client Telephone Conference (CTC)
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Bronze Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $1,500.00
Time limit: 5 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service includes:
01. Email support
02. Telephone support
03. Questions & answers
04. Professional advice
05. Communication management
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Silver Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $3,000.00
Time limit: 10 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service plus
01. Research analysis
02. Management analysis
03. Performance analysis
04. Business process analysis
05. Training analysis
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Gold Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $4,500.00
Time limit: 15 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze/Silver service plus
01. Management interviews
02. Evaluation and assessment
03. Performance improvement
04. Business process improvement
05. Management training
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Consultant Profile
Mr Cuzziol is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, production and finance. He has achieved a Master in Business Economics, a Bachelor in International Relations and has a Project Management Certificate. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Transportation; Insurance; Consultancy; Logistics and Banking & Financial Services. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America and Brazil or more specifically within the following cities: Los Angeles CA; San Francisco CA; San Diego CA; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. His personal achievements include: risk exposure reduction; loss ratio reduction; logistics process improvement; risk management process automation and insurance policies performance improvement. His service skills incorporate: risk management; project management; loss prevention; process improvement and safety advisory.
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Executive Summary
Risk Management Strategy
A good risk management strategy program can reduce up to 90% of the potential accidents that can occur in your company’s operation, according to the best practices. Your operation is essential, as well as delivering the goods on time and in good condition of use. By identifying the main risks in your operation, and implementing measures to overcome them, the company reduces its risk exposure and increases its efficiency.
Faced with constant and unpredictable risks, leaders are pressured by boards, investors, customers and regulators to carry out work to anticipate and minimize impacts on results and operations.
It’s not an easy task, but with our methodology, based on decades of best practices, we are ready to support your company to reach this objective.
Faced with constant and unpredictable risks, leaders are pressured by boards, investors, customers and regulators to carry out work to anticipate and minimize impacts on results and operations.
In this scenario, it is necessary to anticipate trends and find impactful solutions to mitigate vulnerabilities and take advantage of new business opportunities. Therefore, identifying, managing and controlling risks are such important processes for modern companies to remain competitive in the market.
Managing enterprise risk is a challenging task, and it is critical that business leaders approach the issue holistically, combining strategies and solutions.
Tangible Business Process
Risk Exposure can be feasibly reduced by up to 80% with the implementation of a good risk management plan. This leads to operational efficiency improvement (30% on average) and potential insurance cost reduction (also with deductible reduction and higher policy limits). It depends on each operation (type of cargo, locations, business model, etc).
Strong Unique Consulting Services
As experts in the field of Risk Management for Cargo insurance and logistics, we know the peculiar situation of cargo transportation in California (and some other states such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, and New York) and, Chile and Brazil. We have a great network with Risk Management service providers, insurance brokers, and insurance companies to bring the best cost-efficient options for our customers.
Service Methodology
1. Data Analysis
Statistics, loss records, current and past cargo policies analysis, and market loss records . We can collect information from many sources, by comparing internal with external data, we can visualize the company’s current picture. This is a basis for the next steps.
2. Performance Analysis
Staff performance analysis, vendors’ performance analysis, customer satisfaction analysis, and main competitors’ analysis. We use Michael Potter 5 factors of competitive analysis to demonstrate to the customer their current situation.
3. Operation Analysis
Metrics Analysis. Check all data, and procedures available with the operation and safety manager for identifying failures, exposures, and points for improvement/changes.
4. Risk Identification
Perform Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis. Using tools such as Ishikawa, Delphi, Monte Carlo according to the company’s situation.
Delphi Method
Monte Carlo
5. Stakeholders’ engagement plan
Many Logistics companies have outsourced staff. It’s not easy to achieve commitment, with online meetings, and video training. Identifying each key stakeholder’s needs and developing an engagement plan facilitates the project, and brings a higher probability of achieving the results. Define achievable, but ambitious results for each key stakeholder.
6. Risk management plan
We help the safety manager to develop the company’s risk management plan. It’s important the participation of all stakeholders. All the new safety procedures need to be underwriting. Once approved, it’s important to share it and explain the RMP to their insurer.
7. Training
It’s time to implement the RMP, by starting with training the stakeholders: staff, c-suite, vendors. Specific training for drivers, dispatchers and safety manager.
8. Small Victories Accreditation Act
There is always resistance from some stakeholders for changes in the procedures. So, we developed an accreditation process to convince these stakeholders by starting with the changes that will bring faster results, which we call Small Victories. We identify the best options in the 3 first steps. This is a powerful tool that allows stakeholders to foresee the changes can benefit them and the results can be achieved!
9. Modernization process
Implement GPS trackers for the specific modal for cargo visibility. Implement, apps & TMS platforms for operational management visibility and improve communication among dispatching center, drivers, safety manager, and operational manager. Check ELD records. Always pursuing cost-efficiency analysis.
10. Establish risk metrics
Metrics are essential! They create the database for the risk/operation analysis, which can become knowledge. Many GPS and TMS providers have features to feed the safety/operations managers. Even insurers and insurance brokers provide data for their customers. We help the company to establish metrics.
Folllow your company’s score at FMCSA DataQs system.
11. Risk prevention culture
Employees’ time burden spends 25% dealing with the loss. This is an unnecessary stress that affects the team’s performance. By creating a culture of risk prevention, we save time for the team by focusing on the operation, improving productivity, with better customer satisfaction.
12. Monitor results & Track adjustments
Establish an ongoing process of risk monitoring, because new risks always appear. Track adjustments, discuss and implement with stakeholders, and record the results.
Service Options
Companies can elect whether they just require Appleton Greene for advice and support with the Bronze Client Service, for research and performance analysis with the Silver Client Service, for facilitating departmental workshops with the Gold Client Service, or for complete process planning, development, implementation, management and review, with the Platinum Client Service. Ultimately, there is a service to suit every situation and every budget and clients can elect to either upgrade or downgrade from one service to another as and when required, providing complete flexibility in order to ensure that the right level of support is available over a sustainable period of time, enabling the organization to compensate for any prescriptive or emergent changes relating to: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing; or Production.
Service Mission
To offer innovative services and solutions to the U.S. Logistics, Insurance & Risk Management industries. U.S. & South American expert in cargo loss prevention, also recognized for excellence knowledge in software technology, risk prevention, assistance in operations, portfolio analysis, and risk consulting. The focus is to provide solutions that cover the security of the entire logistic chain. Expert in Risk Consulting and management of Project Risks, bringing new concepts and innovation in managing our third party vendors involved in protecting the logistics operation of a company.
Provide security, efficiency, and confidentiality for the clients’ operations. To offer IT solutions, risk analysis, outsourced services, and projects; and having partnerships with global organizations that provide hardware technology, security tools, and tracking devices to better serve the customers’ needs.
Fundamental principles are the confidentiality of information coupled with technological innovation and customized solutions to improve customers’ results by increasing their security, lowering costs and improving productivity.
Mission
Provide tools, methods, guidance and support to manage, mitigate and avoid the risks faced by all players while treating each project as unique by developing customized software and management solutions for each client.
Vision
Offer a process technology-driven consulting that creates innovative project risk management trends through the experience acquired and high-quality of services and solutions.
Values
• Technology and innovation
• Continuous improvement
• Process-driven solutions
• Ethics and confidentiality
Differential
Innovative solutions have proven to be effective in some of the most critical risk environments in the continent for over two decade, an exclusive know-how that makes unique in the cargo risk management market.
We pursue to deliver:
• Reduce Risk exposure
• Reduce insurance cost (or increase policy limits)
• Reduce operational costs
• Improve productivity and delivery efficiency
• Increase CSA Scores
Service Objectives
The following list represents the Key Service Objectives (KSO) for the Appleton Greene Risk Management service.
- Risk Prevention
A good risk management program can reduce up to 90% of the potential accidents that can occur in your company’s operation, according to the best practices. Your operation is essential, as well as delivering the goods on time and in good condition of use. By identifying the main risks in your operation, and implementing measures to overcome them, the company reduces its risk exposure and increases its efficiency. It’s not an easy task, but with our methodology, based on decades of best practices, we are ready to support your company to reach this objective.Faced with constant and unpredictable risks, leaders are pressured by boards, investors, customers and regulators to carry out work to anticipate and minimize impacts on results and operations.
In this scenario, it is necessary to anticipate trends and find impactful solutions to mitigate vulnerabilities and take advantage of new business opportunities. Therefore, identifying, managing and controlling risks are such important processes for modern companies to remain competitive in the market.
Managing enterprise risk is a challenging task, and it is critical that business leaders approach the issue holistically, combining strategies and solutions.
Risk Consulting and management of Project Risks, bringing new concepts and innovation in managing third party vendors involved in protecting the logistics operation of a company. Bringing a background from the educational area that provide teachers for MBA courses in Risk Management at Brazilian Universities lecturing method of Risk prevention.Our organization has a complete structure built in order to provide security, efficiency, and confidentiality for our clients’ operations. We offer consulting on IT solutions, risk analysis, outsourced services, and in-house projects; and we also have partnerships with global organizations that provide us hardware technology, security tools, and tracking devices to better serve our customers’ needs.
- Insurance Cost
By reducing your company’s risk exposure, and in consequence your loss ratio, you can bargain lower insurance rates with the agent your company works with. Insurers assess new risks by many categories, but especially by the company’s loss history. So, it’s important to demonstrate your company’s loss prevention culture and good logistics performance with lower cases of accidents.Insurance companies have been the core of our business for over two decades. The broad consulting services offered by our expertise with insurance companies ranges from loss prevention in theft, damages, accidents, and claims analysis, all the way to average adjusters, risk inspection, own-fleet, tracking, and cargo recovery.
We are experts in: Insurance Analysis and negotiation – for Inland Transportation, Cargo Marine, Trucker’s Liability.
We have large experience on dispatchers in Logistics monitoring, to keep the vehicles moving, generating productivity.
Our expertise in risk monitoring and road assistance to offer additional services to the our customers.
Our experience is specialized in managing projects and consulting for risk management, insurance, cargo transportation, and telematics, working together with your team for the whole period you hire us.
We have expertise in supporting teams to overcome management issues, delays in schedule, organize process to launch products. We are experts in project s as:
• Telematics, hardwares and softwares for GPS, ELD, UBI, OBD II;
• Transportation Risk Management – Online Tracking, driver’s training, Risk Prevention Measures, Programs, and Auditories. HOS, C-TPAT implementation;
• Dispatch – we can interact with your middle man!
• Project Risk Management – we work in Agile and Waterfall, using MS Project.
- Operational Costs
CARGO AND LOGISTICS
National and international cargo transportation, using the main modes – air, rail, river, sea, and road.
Supply chains are becoming increasingly global and complex, which makes managing possible vulnerabilities even more difficult. Therefore, it is necessary to develop coordinated efforts to guarantee end-to-end transport security. In the field, maritime ship-owners continue to develop ‘door-to-door’ services, e-commerce pays attention to logistics to be competitive in the quality of service and the cargo agent is strengthening itself to maintain its position as a chain integrator.
Some means of transport are giving way to new (and unpredictable) updates, such as cargo tracking, IoT, drones, independent vehicles, and digitalization of processes, among others. For products that still need to travel physically, larger ships, planes, trains and transits are blocked by better planning.
RISK MANAGEMENT IN LOGISTICS
Allows you to remove negative losses from failures and accidents of work machines or vehicles. Problems in finding spare parts for work machines or vehicles. Air and road conditions prevention. Unplanned fuel calculation on vehicles. Loading in non-compliance to the specifications of the products. Burglary incidents on loading or during transportation. Failure to comply with laws and regulations. Staff performing transportation activity affected by: physical problems, mental stress, or lack of rest. Providers exposed to financial difficulties. Incorrect documents used in the operation. Problems arising from information technologies.
Ensures you that effective decisions are taken in. Efficient use of time. Prevention of resource waste. Effective management of risks, ensuring the most appropriate earnings. Offering opportunities to follow innovations. Financial protection of the business, ensuring stability. The protection of the operator’s image. Clear management understanding. Providing growth and development in the operator’s market. Development of internal auditory. Measuring the increase of employee’s business consciousness level due to internal auditory. ns fundamental principles are the confidentiality of information coupled with technological innovation and customized solutions to improve customers’ results by increasing their security, lowering costs, and improving productivity.
- Productivity
A risk management program is developed to boost the company’s productivity, by avoiding re-work and providing deliveries on time and in good cargo condition.CARGO AND LOGISTICS
National and international cargo transportation, using the main modes – air, rail, river, sea and road.
Supply chains are becoming increasingly global and complex, which makes managing possible vulnerabilities even more difficult. Therefore, it is necessary to develop coordinated efforts to guarantee end-to-end transport security. In the field, maritime ship-owners continue to develop ‘door-to-door’ services, e-commerce pays attention to logistics to be competitive in the quality of service and the cargo agent is strengthening itself to maintain its position as a chain integrator.
Some means of transport are giving way to new (and unpredictable) updates, such as cargo tracking, IoT, drones, independent vehicles, and digitalization of processes, among others. For products that still need to travel physically, larger ships, planes, trains and transits are blocked by better planning.
We evaluate your operation to support you in choosing the optimal route using the best technologies available in the market. For the movement of vehicles taking into account the professional level of the driver, FMCSA Score, the number of accidents and thefts, accounting for repair work and the quality of coverage.Make rational decisions to prevent economic losses and make a profit using software product that integrates with various data sources.
We support your company to automatize the Dispatching Operation. Go paperless!
• Schedule Trips
• Receive Alerts and Information in Real-time
• Monitor and manage delays and occurrences
• Follow trip planning in real time
• Communicate in a faster and safer way
- Efficiency
We not only provide good practices of risk management by developing a culture of loss prevention in your operation, but we pursue efficiency by recommending the use of best technologies in terms of performance and efficiency, with analysis of the GPS type more appropriate for the modal used by the company. As well as, the use of Risk and transportation software platforms, and apps to interact with drivers and logistics stakeholders.Benefits:
• Protect the company’s assets, profits and image, as well as threats that put the success of the business at risk.
• Increase the profitability of operations by reducing recurring losses.
• Security and business continuity.
• Valuation of the company by investors averse to undue risks.
• Increased customer confidence for greater competitiveness.
• Improvement of controls with the aim of generating greater added value for the operation.
• Avoid predictable losses and minimize the imponderable.
• Support in the implementation of insurance programs.
• Companies and professionals attentive to compliance with regulatory frameworks.
• Adherence to technical standards and regulatory requirements.
Having a good WMS is also an essential fundament to improve the Logistics efficiency. The solution for digitizing the flows of collection, validation, or relocation of the goods from the logistics warehouse. The higher the complexity of flows in a warehouse, the greater the need to automate it.
Productivity of a superpicker devices in warehouses provides:
• Is 80% faster in the picking process.
• Makes up to 75% fewer mistakes.
• It can be awarded and motivated with platforms that provides accurate productivity and time-collection reports.
We help your company to find a solution easy to integrate in the regular operational flow of your company’s operation, to be compatible with most ERP solutions existing on the market.
Testimonials
AXA-XL
“I became aware of Mr. Cuzziol through his achievements with our filial in Brazil in 2013, where he used to work for JLT Brazil insurance brokers as Marine Technical Manager. For three years, Mr. Cuzziol was a critical member of the JLT team. Indeed, in just his first year, he was responsible for a 300% increase in marine policy sales where he partnered with our filial to increase our portfolio of customers with a profitable loss ratio. He was a crucial component to making this financial gain succeed. This is just one of the many instances in which Mr. Cuzziol’s expertise was directly linked to the financial success for the company, he has displayed a rare intuition for risk management.
An internationally known for his achievement in Marine Cargo insurance performance of Samsung Electronica da Amazonia Ltda (a member of Samsung Electronics, the world’s 2nd largest information technology company). In 2011, Samsung brought on Mr. Cuzziol specifically to create a new risk management project where he could develop a work for a tackling the logistics risk management and insurance loss records. He handled everything from start to finish and made sure that Samsung was protected in the right way. As a major project, Mr. Cuzziol’s risk management project achieved annual savings of $10 million in losses. This success is absolutely due to Mr. Cuzziol’s strategic and innovative structuring and rollout in marine cargo risk prevention.”
Project Management Institute – Los Angeles Chapter
“Mr. Cuzziol is an internationally renowned insurance and project risk management expert. On behalf of Project Management Institute – Los Angeles Chapter, “the PMI-LA Chapter”. This organization is a Chapter chartered by the Project Management Institute, Inc.,“PMI®” and dedicated to advancing the practice, science, and profession of project management in a conscious and proactive manner.
In my position, I have become familiar with others in this niche field and I can confirm that Mr. Cuzziol rises well above his peers. Mr. Cuzziol was appointed as a director of Flagship meeting for PMI-LA in 2016 and within a month, he singlehanded the management of the event. He was, as a member, one of the best directors that the chapter ever had. He also approached PMI-LA to Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Cuzziol has been internationally known and recognized for his unique talents, expertise and brilliant abilities. I am aware that for over fifteen years, Mr. Cuzziol has provided expertise in risk management, procurement, quality assurance and control, projects, insurance, logistics, and financial management. He has worked for such prestigious companies as JLT Group, Samsung Electronics, ACE Limited, and more. With his world-renowned reputation, Mr. Cuzziol has been invited to chair the Insurance and Risk Management Summits in Brazil and Mexico for LatamIR Magazine. As a leader in the field, Mr. Cuzziol was also a professor for three years at a leading educational institution in Brazil.”
Suntech International
“Mr. Cuzziol, an internationally renowned insurance and risk management expert. Suntech International USA is a GPS hardware distributor for mobile asset and vehicle fleet management, based in Carlsbad, California. In my position as CEO, I have worked directly with Mr. Cuzziol and others in this niche field and I can confirm that he is an exceptional individual, internationally recognized for his unique talents, expertise, and abilities.
He has worked for such prestigious companies as JLT Insurance Brokers, Samsung Electronics, ACE Insurance, and more.
He has secured contract work with Suntech International and other top clients such as Starr Marine Insurance Company, Lira Business USA, Saltrex Commodity Auctions, Malvas, and more.
Mr. Cuzziol has been invited to be a member of Project Management Institute-Los Angeles Chapter, Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce – BCCC, Southwest Transportation Security Council, and the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators, as well as chairing the Insurance and Risk Management Project Summits in Brazil and Mexico for Latamir Magazine. He co-chaired the panel of Transportation at GRI Infra Club conference in New York City.
Recently, he was nominated vice-chair of the BCCC International Trade & Logistics Committee. His company received the award of Best Regional Enterprise at the Summit of Leaders in Oxford-UK from Europe Business Assembly in 2017 (only U.S. company to be awarded in the 2017 summit). As a leader in the field, Mr. Cuzziol was also a professor for three years at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, a leading educational institution in Brazil.”
Transit Risk Management
“In my position, I have become familiar with others in this niche field and I can confirm that Mr. Cuzziol rises well above his peers. So, I invited him to become a member of Southwest Transportation Security Council, based in Rockwall-TX, where Mr. Cuzziol participate of our annual conference in 2022, contributing a lot with his remarkable knowledge in Marine Risk Management, sharing his know-how with our peers.
I am confident in stating that Mr. Cuzziol is an individual of extraordinary ability in the field of risk management and assessment, and the position he will assume in the United States clearly requires an individual of the highest caliber in the field. Mr. Cuzziol has been internationally known and recognized for his unique talents, expertise and brilliant abilities.
Mr. Cuzziol exceptional knowledge in cargo theft risk prevention could be clearly notification during his performance as a vendor in our company to support us to provide top-notch GPS trackers to the U.S. transportation and cargo insurance market. As cargo theft is an increasing concern in the last years in the United States, I strong believe his knowledge and expertise is a matter of national importance where Mr. Cuzziol is well positioned to perform such great works in this field.”
Harbor Trucking Association
“For over 3 years, due to Mr. Cuzziol initiative, HTA became institutional partner of Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce, where we’ve promoted events of each institution and participating as speakers in summits. I had the honor to be a speaker in 2021 at their II annual web-conference “Brazil-USA Trade Agreements & Economic Recovery follow-ups”, at the panel “Economic Recovery Issues – Port Congestion”. It was an extraordinary conference, with great experts, and I had an unique opportunity to debate with counterparts in the Brazilian market. Our past president, Weston LaBar, also participated in their I web-conference in 2020.
Mr. Cuzziol introduced us to many Brazilian companies, but specially to SETCESP (Syndicate of Transportation carriers of São Paulo), the largest one in Latin. He has been fostering a partnership between our associations, what can provide a great support in Logistics for bilateral trade Brazil-USA.
Mr. Cuzziol is definitely very competent in his field, holding intrinsic merit, and is national in scope; more than other individuals with similar qualifications. I strong believe Mr. Cuzziol can keep contributing to boost trade between United States and Brazil, special in in the cargo transportation industry which has been suffering with high rate of cargo losses during the last years. We see clear evidence that his endeavor has significant potential to employ U.S. workers, and it has substantial positive economic effects, having national importance.”
More detailed achievements, references and testimonials are confidentially available to clients upon request.
Industries
This service is primarily available to the following industry sectors:
Transport
The logistics and transportation industry in the United States is highly competitive. By investing in this sector, multinational firms position themselves to better facilitate the flow of goods throughout the world’s largest consumer market. International and domestic companies in this industry benefit from a highly skilled workforce and relatively low costs. United States Business Logistics Costs reached $1.6 trillion in 2018 (8 percent of GDP that year). Analysts expect investment to correlate with sector-specific growth in the U.S. economy.
America’s highly integrated supply chain network links producers and consumers through multiple transportation modes, including air and express delivery services, freight rail, maritime transport, and truck transport. To serve customers efficiently, multinational and domestic firms provide tailored logistics and transportation solutions to ensure coordinated goods movement from origin to end user through each supply chain network segment. Logistics services: This subsector includes inbound and outbound transportation management, fleet management, warehousing, materials handling, order fulfillment, logistics network design, inventory management, supply and demand planning, third-party logistics management, and other support services.
Logistics services are involved at all levels in the planning and execution of the movement of goods. Air and express delivery services (EDS): Firms offer expedited, time-sensitive, and end-to-end services for documents, small parcels, and high-value items. An $87 billion industry in the United States, EDS firms also provide the export infrastructure for many exporters, particularly small and medium-sized businesses that cannot afford to operate their own supply chain. Recent EDS industry growth has been generated by the expansion of electronic commerce use by businesses and consumers. Freight rail: High volumes of heavy cargo and products are transported long distances throughout the United States via rail network. Each day, this 140,000-mile system delivers an average of 5 million tons of goods and serves nearly every industrial, wholesale, retail, and resource-based sector of the economy.
In 2017, Freight rail moves more than 70 percent of the nation’s coal, about 58 percent of its raw metal ores, 1.6 million carloads of wheat, corn, and other agricultural products, and 13.7 million intermodal containers and trailers that transport consumer goods. Maritime: This subsector includes carriers, seaports, terminals, and labor involved in the movement of cargo and passengers by water. Water transportation moves nearly 70 percent of all U.S. international merchandise trade, including 72 percent of U.S. exports by tonnage. Trucking: Over-the-road transportation of cargo is provided by motor vehicles over short and medium distances. According to the American Trucking Associations, trucking revenues were $700 billion in 2017. That year, trucks moved almost 11 billion tons of freight.
Logistics
Global logistics is expected to reach US$12 trillion in value by 2025, recording a 6% CAGR over the period. The key opportunities lie in construction industry and transportation of cement, metals, textiles and electronic components. Retail and wholesale, in the meantime, will become an increasingly challenging area with limited potential and growing supply chain complexity. 2015 was a difficult year for global logistics companies. However, accelerating Asia Pacific economies and recovering manufacturing in Western Europe are expected to have a positive effect on global logistics, which started to recover in 2016 and is expected to continue solid growth in the next 10 years. Retail and wholesale growth is expected to stand at 4% CAGR over 2015-2025 -lowest among key logistics customers.
China and the US are expected to remain lucrative markets that will account for over 50% of future value growth in retail and wholesale until 2025. Following growth of e-commerce, logistics companies will have to adopt innovative delivery solutions and integrate delivery systems. The most significant elements that enable us to understand economic growth and development levels of nations are economic indicators of the country of interest. As much as these indicators have positive and high values, they affect the economic, social, psychological and cultural texture of the nation positively.
These effects increase the culture, living and welfare levels of the individuals in the society. Logistics is one of the tools that play an important role in the change and improvement of economic indicators. Logistics industry provides significant macro contributions to national economy by creating employment, and creating national income and foreign investment influx. On the micro scale, logistics industry is a key industry in increasing the competitive power of corporations.
Furthermore, the logistics industry has an important mission in revitalizing and improvement of the competitiveness of other industries. Today, all industries are dependent on logistics sector. The present study aimed to investigate how the logistics variables of transportation and communication affected economic growth in 34 OECD countries. The effect of both transportation industry variables and communication industry variables that form the logistics industry on the increase in per capita income in OECD countries was identified.
Insurance
Global insurance premiums grew by 2.7% in inflation-adjusted terms to $4.3 trillion, climbing above pre-crisis levels. The return to growth and record premiums generated during the year followed two years of decline in real terms. Life insurance premiums increased by 3.2% and non-life premiums by 2.1%. While industrialized countries saw an increase in premiums of around 1.4%, insurance markets in emerging economies saw rapid expansion with 11% growth in premium income. The global insurance industry was sufficiently capitalized to withstand the financial crisis and most insurance companies have restored their capital to pre-crisis levels.
With the continuation of the gradual recovery of the global economy, it is likely the insurance industry will continue to see growth in premium income both in industrialized countries and emerging markets. Advanced economies account for the bulk of global insurance. With premium income of $1.62 billion, Europe is the most important region, followed by North America $1.409 billion and Asia $1.161 billion. Europe has however seen a decline in premium income in contrast to the growth seen in North America and Asia.
The top four countries generated more than a half of premiums. The United States and Japan alone account for 40% of world insurance, much higher than their 7% share of the global population. Emerging economies account for over 85% of the world’s population but only around 15% of premiums. Their markets are however growing at a quicker pace. The country expected to have the biggest impact on the insurance share distribution across the world is China, which is expected to be the largest insurance market in the next decade or two.
The insurance industry comprises establishments that are primarily engaged in the pooling of risk by underwriting insurance (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) and annuities. The insurance industry is a highly fragmented and includes segments such as life insurance and non-life insurance. The European region currently dominates this industry; however, Latin America, eastern Europe, and the Middle East are expected to lead the industry in the future. Asia is expected to grow the fastest over the next decade.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation. In a free market economy, manufacturing is usually directed toward the mass production of products for sale to consumers at a profit. In a collectivist economy, manufacturing is more frequently directed by the state to supply a centrally planned economy. In mixed market economies, manufacturing occurs under some degree of government regulation. Modern manufacturing includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product’s components. Some industries, such as semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead.
The manufacturing sector is closely connected with engineering and industrial design. According to some economists, manufacturing is a wealth-producing sector of an economy, whereas a service sector tends to be wealth-consuming. Emerging technologies have provided some new growth in advanced manufacturing employment opportunities in the Manufacturing Belt in the United States. Manufacturing provides important material support for national infrastructure and for national defense. On the other hand, most manufacturing may involve significant social and environmental costs. The clean-up costs of hazardous waste, for example, may outweigh the benefits of a product that creates it.
Hazardous materials may expose workers to health risks. These costs are now well known and there is effort to address them by improving efficiency, reducing waste, using industrial symbiosis, and eliminating harmful chemicals. The increased use of technologies such as 3D printing also offer the potential to reduce the environmental impact of producing finished goods through distributed manufacturing.This sector benefits from good Risk Management programs by avoiding reworks in their operations when it is guaranted the delivery of their good to the customers on-time and in perfect contion of use. As well as you can notice in our theory “The Bad Cycle of Cargo Loss”, their stolen products won’t compete against their new products in the parallel market.
Technology
Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. The business value of information technology lies in the automation of business processes, provision of information for decision making, connecting businesses with their customers, and the provision of productivity tools to increase efficiency. The global IT Services industry holds significant opportunities for industry players due to increasing IT spending in the healthcare, retail, and transportation sectors, among others.
The market is forecast to reach an estimated US $1,147 billion with a CAGR of more than 5%. The global IT services industry comprises services related to the application of business and technical expertise to enable organizations to create, manage, optimize, and access information and business processes. The industry’s scope includes product support services such as hardware and software maintenance and professional services such as IT consulting, development, and integration services. North America, with 42% of the global market share, dominates the highly fragmented global IT services industry. Outsourcing locations such as India, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines are anticipated to be key drivers because of their low-cost labor and skilled talent pools.
The APAC IT services industry is expected to register the highest growth rate among all regions during the forecast period and lead the industry. Government-backed reforms are expected to contribute to significant increases in spending for IT investments. In addition, by generating new opportunities for IT vendors globally, cloud computing is expected to reshape the industry. It is anticipated to offer immense opportunity to penetrate in the small and medium business sector. High volatility in currency exchange rates, a shrinking talent pool, and high labor costs in developed countries are some of the major challenges for the IT services industry.
The increasing global demand for systems, software, and services, as well as IT spending by governments, and the banking and financial sectors are likely to boost the IT services market. The industry is highly correlated with economic cycles as IT services are project based and often represent discretionary spending. In special, the technology sector of Telematics is our core business, helping GPS companies, tracking platform providers, WMS and TMS solutions providers to get into their customers needs, providing APIs and business development for them.
Locations
This service is primarily available within the following locations:
Los Angeles
The economy of Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, video games, recorded music), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism. Los Angeles is also the largest manufacturing center in the western United States. The contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world and the most significant port in the Western Hemisphere and is vital to trade within the Pacific Rim. Other significant industries include media production, finance, telecommunications, law, healthcare, and transportation. The city is home to six Fortune 500 companies. They are energy company Occidental Petroleum, healthcare provider Health Net, metals distributor Reliance Steel & Aluminium, engineering firm AECOM, real estate group CBRE Group and builder Tutor Perini.
According to the LAEDC (Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach combine to make our sea ports complex the largest in the Western Hemisphere, handling over 40% of all inbound containers for the entire United States. Over time, a sophisticated and mature logistics economy has developed around these ports, including high-capacity rail networks, endless warehousing and distribution options, and businesses that have located in L.A. County to leverage this infrastructure. Over 160,000 workers in L.A. County alone support the international trade sector. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is another key link in Los Angeles County’s international trade. While the LA/Long Beach harbors handle high volume products, LAX handles high-value products, such as medical instruments, electronics, and perishables.
The airport ranks 14th in the world and 5th in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over two million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $96.3 billion. LAX is served by 43 international carriers and all major air freight lines. In addition to freight, LAX is a world hub airport for business travelers with over 900 weekly nonstop flights to 59 cities in 30 countries. With a strong port infrastructure, main rail lines for both the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroads ensure efficient movement to and from the ports. Many rail cars utilize the Alameda Corridor, a 20-mile-long rail cargo expressway linking the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the transcontinental rail network near downtown Los Angeles. In addition, an excellent freeway and highway system allows multimodal transport and efficient origination for cross-country delivery.
San Fransisco
Tourism, the city’s largest private-sector employer, is the backbone of the San Francisco economy. Its frequent portrayal in music, film, and popular culture has made the city and its landmarks recognizable worldwide. Small businesses with fewer than 10 employees and self-employed firms make up 85% of city establishments as lately, it has been particularly popular with entrepreneurs establishing “start-up” companies. Many large financial institutions, multinational banks and venture capital firms are based in or have regional headquarters in the city.
With over 30 international financial institutions, seven Fortune 500 companies, and a large support infrastructure of professional services – including law, public relations, architecture and design. San Francisco’s economy has increasingly become tied to San Jose and Silicon Valley, its neighbors to the south, sharing the need for highly educated workers with specialized skills. San Francisco has been positioning itself as a biotechnology and biomedical hub and research center. The Mission Bay neighborhood, site of a second campus of UCSF, fosters a budding industry and serves as headquarters of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the public agency funding stem cell research programs state-wide.
According to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, goods movement has always played a critical role in the San Francisco Bay Area. The regional goods movement infrastructure includes the nation’s fifth largest container port (the Port of Oakland) and several specialized seaports, two of the most active air cargo airports in the western U.S. (San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Oakland International Airport (OAK)), major rail lines and rail terminals and highways that carry some of the highest volumes of trucks in California. This infrastructure also plays a central role for the Northern California megaregion. But as the Bay Area’s economy and planning priorities have evolved, so too must its approach to considering goods movement’s role in the regional transportation system.
São Paulo
São Paulo is considered the “financial capital of Brazil”, as it is the location for the headquarters of many major corporations and the country’s most renowned banks and financial institutions. São Paulo is Brazil’s highest GDP city and the 10th largest in the world, using Purchasing power parity. According to data of IBGE, its gross domestic product (GDP) is R$ 450 billion, approximately US$220 billion, 12.26% of Brazilian GDP and 36% of all production of goods and services of the State of São Paulo.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers average annual economic growth of the city is 4.2%. São Paulo also has a large “informal” economy. The city of São Paulo collects R$ 90 billion in taxes and the city budget is R$ 15 billion. The city has 1,500 bank branches and 70 shopping malls. The São Paulo Stock Exchange (BM&F Bovespa) is Brazil’s official stock and bond exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in Latin America, trading about R$ 6 billion (US$ 3.5 billion) every day. São Paulo’s economy is going through a deep transformation.
Once a city with a h2 industrial character, São Paulo’s economy has followed the global trend of shifting to the tertiary sector of the economy, focusing on services. The city is unique among Brazilian cities for its large number of foreign corporations. 63% of all the international companies with business in Brazil have their head offices in São Paulo. São Paulo has the largest concentration of German businesses worldwide and is the largest Swedish industrial hub alongside Gothenburg. São Paulo ranked second after New York in FDi magazine’s bi-annual ranking of Cities of the Future in the Americas, and was named the Latin American City of the Future, overtaking Santiago de Chile, the first city in the previous ranking. Santiago now ranks second, followed by Rio de Janeiro.
The city of São Paulo is home to research and development facilities and attracts companies due to the presence of several regionally renowned universities. Science, technology and innovation is leveraged by the allocation of funds from the state government, mainly carried out by means of the Foundation to Research Support in the State of São Paulo (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP), one of the main agencies promoting scientific and technological research. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the State of São Paulo contributed 27% of Brazil’s GDP in 2021, and its economy grew by 5.7%, which is higher than the national average. Most goods produced in the State of São Paulo are transported by road (84%) in around 290,000 trucks per day. Of these, 77.8% go to destinations within the state, 19.5% are for trade with other states in Brazil, and 2.7% cross the state enroute to another.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro has the second largest GDP in Brazil, after São Paulo. According to the IBGE, it is approximately US$ 201 billion, 5.1% of the national total. The services sector comprises the largest portion of GDP (65.52%), followed by commerce (23.38%), industrial activities (11.06%) and agriculture (0.04%). Greater Rio de Janeiro, as perceived by the IBGE, has a GDP of US$ 187.374.116.000, constituting the second largest hub of national wealth. It concentrates 68% of the state’s economic strength and 7.91% of all goods and services produced in the country.
Taking into consideration the network of influence exerted by the urban metropolis (which covers 11.3% of the population), this share in GDP rises to 14.4%. For many years brings together the second largest industrial hub of Brazil, with oil refineries, shipbuilding industries, steel, metallurgy, petrochemical, gas, chemical, textile, printing, publishing, pharmaceutical, beverages, cement and furniture. However, the last decades indicated a sharp transformation in its economic profile, which is acquiring more and more shades of a major national hub of services and businesses.
The Stock Exchange of Rio de Janeiro (BVRJ), which currently trades only government securities, was the first stock exchange founded in Brazil in 1845 and located in the central region. Rio de Janeiro became an attractive place for companies to locate when it was the capital of Brazil, as important sectors of society and of the government were present in the city. The city was chosen as headquarters for state-owned companies such as Petrobras, Eletrobras, Caixa Econômica Federal and Vale. After the transfer of the capital to Brasília, it kept attracting more companies, especially after the discovery of oil in the Campos Basin, which produces most of the total oil production of Brazil. This made many oil and gas companies to be based in Rio de Janeiro, such as the Brazilian branches of Shell, EBX and Esso. The headquarters of BNDES, an important state institution, is also in Rio de Janeiro.
The city is also the headquarters of large telecom companies, such as Intelig, Oi and Embratel. Rio ranks second nationally in industrial production and second financial and service center, trailing only São Paulo. The city’s industries produce processed foods, chemicals, petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, metal products, ships, textiles, clothing, and furniture. The service sector dominates the economy, however, and includes banking and the second most active stock market in Brazil, the Bolsa da Valores do Brasil. According to the study done by Prologis, a Logistics provider with operation in the state, Rio de Janeiro is an important regional and international center of transport, logistics and distribution.
The Port of Rio de Janeiro is the third busiest in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro’s Galeao International Airport is the second-busiest airport in the country. A growing network of ring roads and highways is helping to bring greater connectivity to the network of industrial properties and the logistics system at large. The market is significantly undersupplied, as modern logistics facilities are catching up with high underlying demand.
Santiago
According to an study of Brooking & JP Morgan Chase, Over the past two decades, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, like all of Chile, has emerged on the global stage. Accounting for nearly half of the nation’s GDP, Santiago contains a significant set of economic assets—an increasingly well-educated workforce, major universities, and a stable of large global companies and budding start-ups. These strengths position it well to lead Chile’s path toward a more productive, technology-intensive economy that competes in global markets based on knowledge rather than raw materials.
This type of economy, which fully embraces trade and foreign direct investment as a growth driver, requires the capacity to generate new ideas and process innovations, a broadly educated workforce, and sound infrastructure to connect firms and workers to each other and the rest of the world. The Santiago Metropolitan Region can leverage its specialization in business services to boost exports and foreign direct investment. With a relatively small domestic market, trade and investment must be a critical component of Santiago’s long-term economic strategy.
To that end, it is encouraging that output and employment in traded sectors have grown at a faster clip than the national economy and many global peer regions. Exports have also posted superior growth rates to the national economy, led by the region’s mining and food and beverage sectors. However, several macro trends confirm that the mining sector will not continue to be the economic engine it was in the past decade, indicating the need for diversification into new tradable industries. Santiago’s status as Chile’s transportation and business services hub (it houses over 90 percent of corporate headquarters in Chile) makes those sectors compelling opportunities to boost exports and foreign investment.
Yet, the national services trade deficit has steadily increased over the past decade. Inward foreign direct investment flows fall in the middle of global peers, with key sectors being communications, metals, and renewable and alternative energy. In a composite trade index, Santiago placed fifth among global peer regions. We support companies on risk management in Santiago and its closest port, the Port of San Antonio, one of the largest in the South Pacific in the Americas.
Clients
This service’s current clients or employers include:
Suntech International
Headquartered in South Korea and global offices worldwide including Hong Kong, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, and the United States.
Global leader: Founded in 2001 in South Korea and growing steadily, now the definitive market leader across Latin America. Has shipped over 4 million devices so far worldwide.
High quality: Proven process engineering and manufacturing within the renowned IT-sector of Seoul, using the most cost-effective and reliable technologies available.
Industry First: The first company to introduce a chip-based design for GPS tracking that allows devices to be compact, low-cost, and with feature-rich solutions created to meet the specific needs of telematics service providers in the industry.
Suntech US:
Based in the epicenter of Telematics for North America, Suntech U.S. is focused on providing advanced technology for its growing number of solution providers. Established in 2017, Suntech U.S. enables turnkey mobile asset and best-in-class vehicle fleet management through its partners across the USA and Canada.
Suntech U.S. prides itself for the ability to offer the best product quality, competitive pricing, quick time to market, and customizable configurations.
With over 125 years of combined experience in Telematics, our team has seen it all. From implementing robust international solutions for millions of customers to creating a custom solution for a fleet of three trucks. We work closely with all our partners to create extraordinary solutions that meet their demanding and unique requirements.
• The Latest Cat-M1 hardware. Getting the balance right for IoTSecure coverage: Higher level of security.
• Great U.S. coverage, connects to almost any network.
• Underground: Signal penetrates deep for use in basements and garages.
• Low Power: Increases the expected life of the battery.
• Longer Range: Increased distance and reliability.
Starr Marine
Starr Insurance is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 124 countries on 6 continents.
Starr has the global knowledge, vision and relationships to help your company succeed, anywhere you do business.
From our origins as the first American-owned insurance agency in Shanghai in 1919 to our current presence across six continents, Starr Insurance has grown into an industry powerhouse — built on 100 years of international literacy and operational knowledge.
We lead the way in our understanding of the unique insurance needs of international markets. Rely on our global experience and insight in an ever-changing world of risk, and build your business with the best in property, casualty, accident and health insurance solutions.
International trade is the lifeblood of the global economy. As new transportation technologies are developed, new maritime risks arise.
That’s why it’s critical to have an expert who understands those risks and helps you manage them. Starr Insurance Companies has the capacity to meet marine clients’ needs. Starr Marine’s loss control service sets us apart from other insurance carriers. Our loss control experts support our clients by helping them design thorough, practical plans to effectively mitigate damage and loss, wherever they do business.
Starr Marine offers a complete suite of tailored marine insurance products and services to the commercial shipping and transportation industries. Contact us today to learn more about our significant and long-standing presence in the global marine marketplace.
Sompo International
As a trusted, leading global provider of P&C commercial insurance, reinsurance and consumer insurance, Sompo International takes a personalized approach to providing solutions for the unique needs of our clients.
Our success is driven by our strong culture based in ethics and integrity. Our 9,000+ employees all believe that these core values drive our success, and that when relationships are held in the highest regard; anything can be accomplished. Our specialist teams offer hull and liability insurance on a primary and excess basis, as well as coverage for a broad range of marine cargo, inland marine and specie risks. Our suite of offerings includes both mono-line and marine packages, tailored to the size and complexity of the exposure.
Our specialist teams offer hull and liability insurance on a primary and excess basis, as well as coverage for a broad range of marine cargo, inland marine and specie risks. Our suite of offerings includes both mono-line and marine packages, tailored to the size and complexity of the exposure.
With decades of marine underwriting experience, we are a reliable and recognized provider of marine insurance products and services and offer individual risk policies as well as programs for niche classes.
Sompo International has the in-depth knowledge and experience needed to address the unique risks facing the commercial transportation industry. From single owner-operators to major fleet operators, we provide tailored coverage and design meaningful risk management solutions to fit the needs of each client.
With decades of marine underwriting experience, Sompo International is a reliable and recognized provider of marine insurance products and services. Our specialist teams offer hull and liability insurance on a primary and excess basis, as well as coverage for a broad range of marine cargo, inland marine and specie risks.
Albatroz MGA
Albatroz brings together a team of Insurance Underwriters who have extensive experience in the segment, including the elaboration of risk management plans for each operation in a personalized way, going far beyond the industry standards of the insurance market. With your quote in hand, approved by the final insured, here you issue the policy immediately in just one click, and choose the desired payment method. Updated in real-time, the purpose of the Control Panel is to facilitate the efficient monitoring of your portfolio’s operations, and with the main purpose of promoting the efficiency and engagement of our businesses.
It is possible to visualize the progress of projects through data in a single dashboard.
The market has changed and you need to change too. Our technology allows Insurance Brokers and business partners more autonomy in contracting and managing insurance, through a 100% digital experience.
As an underwriting agency, we are currently authorized to underwrite risks on behalf of internationally renowned specialist Insurers.
Benefits: Fast Underwriting: make quotations in less than 5 minutes.Growing Commissions: The more you produce, the more you earn.Efficient Client Management: Easily manage your clients’ portfolio.Expert Support: Specialized team to serve you.
Risk management: In order to help and bring maximum efficiency and logistical intelligence to insured customers, with centralized information in real time, to facilitate logistical management, and thus, in an easy way, to make assertive decisions focused on the needs of logistical operations, we have the Albatross LOG Utility.
Reinsurance: Albatroz RE MGA is the most complete reinsurance underwriting agency, authorized to underwrite risks on behalf of internationally renowned and specialized reinsurers. Acting as facilitators, it establishes partnerships that allow building bridges between all agents in the process, digitizing processes and facilitating the journey of our partners: brokers, insurance and reinsurance companies.
Where is My Cargo?
We are a world class company specializing in providing real time monitoring products for international cargo transit.
Just the best solutions, just the best options for tracking:
• No initial investment required.
• Pick one of our plans.
• We can customize our solution to fit your needs.
• Acquire our equipment as part of you company’s asset.
With 25 years of expertise in the international cargo insurance market plus 15 years of cargo satellite tracking! We can offer solutions that really fit your needs.
High reliability, easy installation and no interaction with your merchandise. Our equipment fit both dry and refrigerated containers allowing position and status tracking anywhere in the globe!
Why hire us?
• Available cargo violation and tampering.
• Cargo recovery services in case of theft.
• Complete trip reports.
• Reports that fulfill Insurance company requirements.
• Specific and detailed services for high-risk goods, suspicious events, accidents, and/or theft.
• Improved logistics planning for your shipments, optimizing transit time and inventories.
• Improved logistics operational control for you and your service providers.
• Direct cargo monitoring or through specialized Risk Management Companies and Control Centers.
Real-time data:
• On-line integrated systems (Desktop, Smartphones, tablets).
• E-mail reports, including specific alerts, also available through SMS.
• Reverse Logistics – We can deliver and pick up the equipment.
• Custom warnings that really fit your needs, no surprises and no overflow!
You are in control:
• Following the hole logistic chain as well as all legal procedures.
• Full worldwide view of all your shipments.
• You can control your good even at protected or reserved markets.
• Possible work integration and/or coordination with Police Authorities, third part companies, insurance companies, insurance inspectors, prompt response teams in case of suspect or dangerous situations.
Service Benefits
Management
- Risk Management
- Risk Reduction
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- 3PL Management
- Operational Efficiency
- Process-Driven
- Logistics optimization
- Productivity Improvement
- Digital Information
Finance
- Insurance cost
- Production cost
- Logistics cost
- Cost reduction
- Rate reduction
- Loss ratio
- Cost-efficiency
- ROI
- Increase profits
- Cost management
Human Resources
- Stakeholders’ engagement
- Employee retention
- Employee wellness
- Team building
- Stress reduction
- Team consciousness
- Personal efficiency
- Team productivity
- Strategic communications
- Process-driven
Bronze Service
Monthly cost: USD $1,500.00
Time limit: 5 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
Bronze service includes:
01. Email support
02. Telephone support
03. Questions & answers
04. Professional advice
05. Communication management
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Bronze Client Service (BCS) for Risk Management Strategy provides clients with an entry level option and enables client contacts to become personally acquainted with Mr. Cuzziol over a sustainable period of time. We suggest that clients allocate up to a maximum of 5 Key Employees for this service. Your Key Employees can then contact the consultant via email, whenever they feel that they need specific advice or support in relation to the consultant’s specialist subject. The consultant will also be proactive about opening and maintaining communications with your Key Employees. Your Key Employees can list and number any questions that they would like to ask and they will then receive specific answers to each and every query that they may have. Your Key Employees can then retain these communications on file for future reference. General support inquiries will usually receive replies within 48 hours, but please allow a period of up to 10 business days during busy periods. The Bronze Client Service (BCS) enables your Key Employees to get to know their designated Appleton Greene consultant and to benefit from the consultant’s specialist skills, knowledge and experience.
Silver Service
Monthly cost: USD $3,000.00
Time limit: 10 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
Bronze service plus
01. Research analysis
02. Management analysis
03. Performance analysis
04. Business process analysis
05. Training analysis
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Silver Client Service (SCS) for Risk Management Strategy provides more time for research and development. If you require Mr. Cuzziol to undertake research on your behalf, or on behalf of your Key Employees, then this would understandably require more time and the Silver Client Service (SCS) accommodates this. For example, you may want your consultant to undertake some research into your management, performance, business, or training processes, with a view towards providing an independent analysis and recommendations for improvement. If any research and development, or business analysis is required, then the Silver Client Service (SCS) is for you.
Gold Service
Monthly cost: USD $4,500.00
Time limit: 15 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
Bronze/Silver service plus
01. Management interviews
02. Evaluation and assessment
03. Performance improvement
04. Business process improvement
05. Management training
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Gold Client Service (GCS) for Risk Management Strategy is intended for more detailed evaluation and assessment, that may require your Key Employees to have monthly meetings or interviews with Mr. Cuzziol These meetings and interviews can be conducted over the telephone, Skype, or by video conference if required. The consultant can also attend your business premises, an Appleton Greene office, or another mutually beneficial location, but please note that clients are responsible for the costs of any disbursements separately, including travel and accommodation. This service enables you to integrate the specific skills, knowledge and experience of your designated consultant into your Key Employee management team. The Gold Client Service (GCS) can also incorporate training workshops, business presentations and external meetings with customers, suppliers, associations, or any other business-related stakeholders.
Platinum Service
Monthly cost: USD $6,000.00
Time limit: 20 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
Bronze/Silver/Gold service plus
01. Project planning
02. Project development
03. Project implementation
04. Project management
05. Project review
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Platinum Client Service (PCS) for Risk Management is our flagship service and will be required if you need Mr. Cuzziol to facilitate the planning, development, implementation, management, or review of a particular project relating to his specialist subject, which would obviously require more time and dedication. This service enables you to reserve up to 12.5% of the consultant’s working month and provides a more hands-on service as and when required. If you need more time than this, then this can always be arranged, subject of course to the consultant’s ongoing availability. The benefit of having an external consultant involved in projects is they provide an independent perspective and are not influenced by internal politics, day-to-day responsibilities, or personal career interest. They provide objectivity, specific knowledge, skills and experience and will be entirely focused upon the tasks at hand. The Platinum Client Service (PCS) will provide your organization with a valuable resource as and when you need it.