3PL logistics consulting services from LAC
Logistics consulting services from LAC can help your company with finding out the effectiveness of your current logistics sourcing, management and execution strategy. LAC can provide you with a holistic assessment of your contract logistics portfolio and identify any potential gaps for improvement.
Holistic Evaluation of External Contract Logistics
LAC can support your company with:
- Evaluating your current portfolio of logistics contracts with 3PLs
- Advising on potential improvements in your contract logistics sourcing and management strategy
- Evaluating your current warehousing and distribution footprint for optimization opportunities
- Advising on organizational setup of your warehousing and distribution management structure and approach
Warehousing Site Selection Support
LAC can support your company with:
- Searching for and evaluating potential warehousing site selection to meet your specific business needs
- Performing an internal lease vs. external lease (through a 3PL contract) warehousing assessment to find best suited solution for your company
- Advising you on negotiating and securing optimal contractual conditions as it relates to leasing warehousing facility for your operations
Holistic approach to 3PL management
Logistics Avenue Consulting can provide you with an evaluation of your current outsourced logistics landscape or assist in planning the outsourcing activity to external logistics suppliers. When deciding to work with external logistics suppliers, it’s important to analyze the different elements that make up a successful and well-managed outsourced logistics solution. Key items that LAC can support your company are briefly described below.
Site selection strategy
A significant decision around outsourced warehousing solution depends on which party is leasing the facility. Depending on the overall strategy of your company, this might mean that you lease the warehousing facility directly or through the 3PL – both of these approaches carry respective benefits and downsides and Logistics Avenue Consulting can support you in understanding and deciding on the right solution for your particular circumstances.
Site selection strategy
A significant decision around outsourced warehousing solution depends on which party is leasing the facility. Depending on the overall strategy of your company, this might mean that you lease the warehousing facility directly or through the 3PL – both of these approaches carry respective benefits and downsides and Logistics Avenue Consulting can support you in understanding and deciding on the right solution for your particular circumstances.
Infrastructure selection
Similarly to the site selection approach, how you procure the necessary equipment and infrastructure for your logistics operation can have an impact on the cost of ownership as well as other factors. In designing your overall strategy for outsourced logistics operation, it is also important to take this element into consideration. Depending on your company’s strategy, it might be mean that you should lease all of the equipment through your logistics contract with a 3PL to secure the needed flexibility or due to other reasons that would constrain you from handling this activity yourself. The alternative might be that you purchase or lease some or all of the equipment yourself directly. Regardless of the circumstances, Logistics Avenue Consulting can support you in making this decision competently.
Strategic contract planning
Tying all of the individual pieces together into a contract with a 3PL is the last piece of the equation when implementing an outsourced logistics operation strategy. Things like the contract term, exit clauses, commitments to be delivered from the 3PL, flexibility to adjust to business cycles and the external environment are just a few of the critical aspects that should drive your overall supply chain strategy. Logistics Avenue Consulting has the competence to support you in negotiating and incorporating these vital components into your contract.
Strategically manage your Logistics Suppliers with support from LAC!
Depending on your company’s requirements, Logistics Avenue Consulting can enable your business to grow while we take care of overseeing your contractual relationship with external logistics suppliers. To take advantage of our expertise and support in strategic 3PL supplier relationship management, get in touch with us at +48 605 044 328!