Consulting Services

Supply Chain Consulting - Logistics Distribution and Supply Chain

Network Design

 

Base Requirements

  • Data collection includes but is not limited to: locations of vendors / stores / DC's, transport rates for inbound / outbound as well as cube per load assumptions, warehouse fixed and variable costs as well as capacities, store volumes in cases & cube by product group, SKU's by product group including average cube per case and inventory DOH projections as well as SKU and volume growth projections
  • For new construction - cost per square foot by geographic region and by facility type i.e. ambient, refrigerated or frozen as well as land cost by acre by region
  • Network modeling software and expertise required for complex or larger networks
  • Agreement on inventory costing assumptions related to reduced stock holding locations (safety stock)
  • Senior management sign off on all key assumptions
  • Agreement on viable scenarios to be run and costed out
  • Detailed review of scenario results and costing prior to presentation to senior management