Supply Chain Consulting

Save time, money and mitigate risks

Supporting your business strategy

Deploy working capital & improve financial performance

Helping drive value and performance across your network.
Enhance operational excellence

Innovative, end-to-end supply chain solutions designed to work for you as a retailer, e-commerce, 3PL, FMCG or manufacturer.
Develop human and sustainable spaces

Redesigning your spaces to create an environment that promotes the performance and wellbeing of your employees.

Helping drive value and performance across your network.

Innovative, end-to-end supply chain solutions designed to work for you as a retailer, e-commerce, 3PL, FMCG or manufacturer.

Redesigning your spaces to create an environment that promotes the performance and wellbeing of your employees.

Network design and location selection

Evaluate your supply chain network and provide the information needed to make the most informed, long-term decisions. Assess cost and service related trade-offs for various networks, full optimisation model inclusive of transportation and labour costs, inventory deployment, and operating technologies.

Portfolio analysis

A detailed review offering financing levers and generating immediate savings. Assessing marketability of each disposal, property selection criteria and key terms. Evaluation of implementation options in terms of value, cash flow and accounting, as well as identifying operational impact and potential solutions.

Capital market valuation and real estate and funding analysis

Establish the valuation of existing and surplus sites, sale and lease-back options as well as portfolio sales. Combining knowledge of the underlying real estate fundamentals with a deep understanding of the capital structure to ensure you get the right range of advice including debt, joint ventures, mergers/de-mergers, leveraged buy-outs, and other strategic advice.

Grants and incentives

Secure state aid incentives, including taxes, duties advice and grants.

Facility design and implementation

Support for getting the most out of your physical assets. Analysis of facility layout and design, including truck flow, trailer parking configuration, security and theft prevention strategies. Craft recommendations into plans specific to your site while vetting each aspect of the plan with a rigorous business case evaluation and risk assessment.

Automation

Selection of ideal solutions based upon specific operational needs. Reduction of risk due to clear specifications in the tender documents and maximum price security through fixed price agreements in the tender process. Development of a business case to ensure ROI and improvement to profitability.

3PL outsourcing strategy

Bringing unique market insight and sound decision making to your outsourcing process. Analysing supply chain operations to help decide whether to “make vs. buy” or “outsource vs. own/lease/operate.” Helping you make the most informed decisions to support your operational objectives by maximizing savings and fostering successful 3PL partners.

Urban & City logistics

Secure, optimise and accelerate your urban distribution. Organise the logistics flow and identify the various storage solutions in urban and city locations while responding to environmental issues.

Near shoring

Network study, location optimisation and site search. Operational advice on the design of your future logistics sites and implementation all the way through to the development and start-up of new sites.

Placemaking features

Establish your logistics centers and warehouses as a part of a bigger picture rather than a separate asset — one that is linked to the wider urban and social infrastructure, including amenities that fulfill the needs of the employees and the wider community.

Smart

Offering technologically advanced facilities that capture data and enhance operations through predictive analytics and managing demand, as well as warehouse building efficiency through sensors to monitor areas such as energy use and intelligent lighting.

Well-being

A focus on improving human-centric features and technology to not only reduce operational costs but more importantly, enhance the health and comfort of your employees while increasing motivation and productivity.

Labour pool analysis

Identify markets with strong labour pools, as well as how to attract and retain skilled employees.

Sustainability

Reduce your portfolio emissions from both assets and operations. Become eco-friendly using data to optimise energy and media usage with solutions to harvest energy from sustainable sources such as rainwater and electric vehicles, to not only optimise operational efficiency but also build brand value and future-proof your facility.

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European Logistics Market Update

We take a look at take-up, rental performance and yields in the Industrial & Logistics market across Europe in Q1 2021.

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Warehouses are here to stay, but in Europe what they look like in the future and where they are located will change.

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