Warehousing and Distribution Management

The service and delivery advantage

Working most closely with transportation functions in the supply chain, warehousing and distribution can make or break the effectiveness of your entire supply network. Warehouses and distribution centres are among the most costly elements in the entire chain, and a wrong decision on size, location or design can cost the business much more than just the building of the warehouse itself. In the modern world, where economies and countries change quickly, a more flexible warehouse and distribution strategy may be needed. If, for example, a warehouse location was chosen for proximity to a source of supply, that supply may change or dry up if it is a commodity – leaving the business with a costly asset it cannot use, as well as a lack of capital to address the issue. Flexible and innovative warehousing and distribution planning takes these changes into account in ensuring that costs are controlled and service levels to your customers are preserved and improved upon.

Meet current and future needs

Our warehousing and distribution solutions, in common with our integrated solution approach, looks at your delivery network holistically. By designing a warehouse and distribution system with you, we can take into account how far distribution centres can be centralised or not, where they need to be located for optimised delivery, and how transportation and other distribution mechanisms can best interact with them. Knowing about your supply constraints is key, so a collaborative process with you is important for success. We can then proceed to helping you to locate, purchase, design and lay out your warehouses, so that they meet both current and future logistical needs. This will be in your best interests – if we feel you should not own warehouses, and should rent instead of look at other options, we will demonstrate why we feel this is best for you. Our solution set then extends to the optimised design of the warehouse itself, with a range of bespoke management systems and processes, which take in cross-docking, racking, shelving, pick-and-pack, and track and trace capabilities.

Virtual assets

Our key competitive advantage for you is in planning, implementing and managing an optimal warehousing and distribution solution - as we have done for major multinational clients – that best combines investment in assets with the optimisation of the function in the context of the rest of your supply chain.