Logistics consulting helps companies improve customer service operations and develop cost-effective solutions for supply chain, warehouse, material handling, and distribution issues.
Logistics consulting includes work in the following strategic and operational areas:
- Corporate and business unit growth strategy
- Performance improvement and process redesign
- Portfolio strategy
- Labor relations
- Fleet and network optimization
- Information technology
- Customer strategy, including marketing and pricing
- Strategic turnarounds
- Results delivery
Benefits of Logistics Consulting
- Cost reduction
- Customer lead-time improvement
- Lower buffer inventories from more reliable transportation
- Improved gross margin return on inventory investment (GMROII) while increasing revenue by serving demand across the supply chain network of inventory
- Accelerated synergy capture in the event of mergers or acquisitions
- Improved process efficiency and cost reduction from better systems
- Fewer carriers to manage
- Ability to establish internal and external benchmarks
Logistics management consultants are experts who advise companies on the best ways to improve the warehouse and distribution process to increase profit and efficiency. They usually hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, management or another relevant field, and most have logistics experience before entering the consulting field. A college internship can also help them gain experience in the industry.
International 3PL is a professional logistics consulting firm and an accomplished logistics network, material handling, distribution center and warehouse design company. We have extensive experience in the warehouse layout, design and implementation of conventional and highly automated material handling solutions for warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing operations. Using our industrial, engineering, operations, and systems design expertise; we provide state-of-the-practice of warehouse logistics concepts, processes, layout, and designs matched to customer business needs. The capabilities of our consultants and designers also include the selection and implementation of supply chain execution software including warehouse management systems, asset management systems, transportation management systems, yard management systems and labor management systems. Our teams of logistics consultants, distribution center engineers, and material handling systems designers have the skills to assist your company with all your logistics needs