Client Organisation

With continued growth of my clients retailing and distribution operations across Central & Eastern Europe, it became essential to partner with a logistics provider that could deliver consistent freight management practices for all shipments of their directly sourced product, from around the world.
It was paramount that the...

Background

This software company was set up to market, develop and support websites for staff benefit communication and simple self service HR functions, within the SME sector. Their product supported both fixed and flexible benefit administration schemes, total reward statements and also holiday booking administration functions. It was marketed in three ways: direct to employers, via an IFA reseller channel, and also to licensees, who were typically HR benefit consultancies. Licensees developed websites directly for their own clients using the same underlying proprietary...

Background

This long established Department Store chain had been subject to an MBI and taken private from being a PLC. The new owners recognised that the Logistics infrastructure was outdated and excessively costly. They also had significant concerns about the ability of the logistics operation to respond to the new initiatives they planned for the business.

The deliverable

The brief was to review the entire logistics operation to achieve significant reductions in both infrastructure and operating costs, to improve fulfilment to the retail outlets and to...