- Warehouse Review and Operational Benchmarking
- Strategic and Operational Review
- Outsourcing ITT Management
- Transport and Warehouse Review
- Cost to Serve Assessment
- Infrastructure Evaluation
- Supply Chain Transformation
- Organisational Strategy
- Customer Service Organisation
- Transport Efficiency - KPIs
- Transport Collaboration
- Service Development Assessment
- Supply Chain Benchmarking
- Logistics Contract Assessment
- Strategic Review and Operational Implementation
- Strategic Network Evaluation
- New Warehouse Design
- Network Optimisation
- Operations Improvement
- Supply Chain Best Practice Forum
This independent supplier of equipment and consumables to schools, colleges and nurseries operates a single warehouse holding over 7,000 varied SKUs and provides next and two-day service levels.
Good product and service had created significant growth and a need to review warehousing and transport operations.
The warehouse review included:
- - Assessment of current handling and storage methods
- - Quantification of potential alternatives
- - Re-location of products to maximise efficiency
- - Recommendations for change and estimates of available capacity
The transport modelling enabled the evaluation of a number of options including opportunities to replace contractors with a dedicated delivery operation.
Delivery modelling and evaluation demonstrated improvements by moving part of the business from outsourced transport to own vehicles
- Improved Delivery Service - 'Personalised'
- Enabled later customer 'order cut-offs'
- Cost reduction of 6%
Warehouse re-organisation and product location improvement
- Increased existing warehouse capacity by 15%
- Pick productivity improvements of 8%