Transportation and logistics plays a significant role in most manufacturing or distribution firms, whether it’s done internally or outsourced to third party providers. Effectively managing an integrated supply chain is critical to meet ever-increasing customer demands, enable greater production efficiency, and control processing costs.
Improvement Areas
- Asset Utilization
- Service Excellence
- Productivity Improvement
- Maintenance Improvement
- Cultural Alignment
- Internal Teams and Capabilities
Sectors
- Wholesale and Distribution
- Third-Party Logistics
- Trucking (LTL & TL)
- Expedited Logistics
- Container Shipping
- Warehouse Operations
Some of Our Clients
How We Help
We work with our clients to generate more predictable and sustainable performance levels. Across the various sectors of the transportation and logistics industry, our clients have turned to us for help in many areas, including:
- Better planning and scheduling to improve service and equipment utilization
- Improve the balance and flow of dock operations by eliminating waste and reducing variation
- Improve load balancing to help maximize equipment utilization
- Improve truck routing and delivery scheduling
- Improve cross-functional coordination (e.g. dispatching, dock, and fleet operations)
- Improve profitability through more targeted sales management
- Reduce asset costs through better maintenance and cash management
- Reduce operating costs (often labor productivity, fuel management, or equipment maintenance)
- Streamline administration
- Engage employees