Supply Chain Optimisation
- Cost to Serve
- Time to Serve
- Distribution Network Design
- Supply Chain Mapping
- Functional Audits
- Equipment Lease Audit
- Customer Contribution Analysis
- Supply Chain Audit
- Procurement Services
- Benchmarking Supply Chain & Logistics
- Freight, Inventory, Warehouse Benchmarkers
- Transport Fleet – Routing and Scheduling
Third Party Logistics (3PL) companies need help too. Often through lack of resources or specific expertise, we are asked to assist in solution design, contract audits or simply process improvement. Our extensive experience in working within the Logistics Service Provider market has covered:
- Freight forwarders
- Transport companies
- Warehousing companies
- Integrated Logistics & Supply Chain companies
- Distribution companies
- Parcel carriers
- Ocean carriers
- Postal services
Logistics Bureau has assisted Third Party Logistics companies (3PLs) for many years with a broad range of services. Whilst our 3PL customers are probably amongst the best in terms of Supply Chain and Logistics expertise, even the experts need help sometimes!
We are very proud and privileged to count amongst our customers some of the leading organisations in the this sector.
Here are some examples of the type of support we provide to the Logistics Services sector.
Examples of Projects:
Strategy – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Capability evaluation
- Business development market research
- Business development strategy planning
- Market entry strategy development
- National, Regional and Global supply chain network optimisation
- Service improvement strategies
- Evaluation of in-house v distributor network structures
Tactics – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Response assistance for 3PL tenders
- Evaluation and selection of IT systems
- Facility location analysis & selection
Operations – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Facility design
- Facility process improvement
- Contract performance improvement
- Business development training
- DC staff training
Optimisation – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Cost To Serve modeling of multi–user facilities
- Cost v service trade–off analysis
- DC location strategy modeling
- DC process audits
- Channel cost to serve analysis
- Activity based cost modeling of multi contract facilities
Execution – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Implementation assistance for new contracts
- Interim contract/facility management
- Systems implementation
Training – Third Party (3PL) Logistics
- Supply Chain & Logistics theory and terminology
- What customers want – hitting the hot buttons
- Structuring a services offer
- Warehouse design
- Warehouse process improvement
