Logistics
Logistics strategy
We make your logistics fit for the future
Efficient processes, security of supply with a high level of delivery service, the lowest possible costs – the performance of your logistics is a decisive success factor. A future-oriented logistics strategy creates the basis for sustainable competitiveness and an efficient logistics network. With our experience from numerous projects, we develop practical and sustainable logistics concepts that deliver measurable results and are individually tailored to your requirements and consistently focused on efficiency, transparency and feasibility.
Strategy alignment and segmentation
Long-term optimization and digitalization of logistics
Logistics is not only a key cost factor for your company, it also plays a major role in how reliably your work is perceived by your customers. It is therefore important to examine the structures, processes and technologies in this area to see whether they fulfill their tasks effectively and cost-efficiently and harmonize flexibly and reliably with the tasks of all other areas.
Today, it is no longer possible to create a modern logistics concept without digitalization; powerful software such as an ERP system and a warehouse management system (WMS) are a natural part of this and contribute to the profitability of your company.
To ensure that all of these building blocks work well together, we work with you to develop an innovative and future-oriented logistics strategy that not only builds on your corporate strategy, but also takes your current logistics structures into account.
When positioning and aligning your logistics, we take into account the conditions and requirements in your various market and product segments to ensure a differentiated approach. In the next step, we derive your operating model with specific measures.
Our service packages:
- Analyze internal and external goals, resources and requirements
- Structure and evaluate market and product segments
- Developing a future-oriented logistics model
- Deriving a global logistics strategy
Your benefit:
- More transparency, efficiency and security of supply in your logistics
- Clear strategic alignment of your logistics organization
- Sustainable structures and processes for growth and digitalization
- Sustainable competitiveness through an efficient logistics organization
Philipp Carl
Senior Manager Logistics
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Operating Model
Bring your logistics strategy to life
The success of a strategy depends on its implementation – at the same time, it must be measured in practice. Together with you, we consider which steps can be used to translate the strategy into concrete measures and how these are to be prioritized.
We use an operating model to translate the global logistics strategy into specific action steps and targets for all affected areas. To this end, we develop robust implementation measures, support you with the necessary changes and accompany you systematically during implementation.
Our service packages:
- Plan implementation of the logistics strategy
- Derive fields of action and concrete implementation measures
- Develop target and KPI systems that make success measurable
- Shaping and supporting organizational change
Your benefit:
- Faster realization of optimization and savings potentials
- Transparent decision-making basis for investments and measures
- Lower risks in the change and implementation process
- Measurable increase in performance through clear target and performance indicator systems
- Sustainable, efficient and future-proof logistics structures
In- and outsourcing
Fact-based decisions in line with corporate goals
Do you handle and organize your logistics yourself or do you entrust all the work to a specialist service provider? In logistics, the decision for or against outsourcing depends on many different factors. What costs are incurred, what frictional losses in communication are there, how flexibly can you react to requirements or disruptions? Can a contract logistics model with a reliable partner be a solution for you?
It’s about efficiency, quality, availability, specific process costs and much more. In order to develop the best strategy that is optimally tailored to your needs, we draw on your corporate objectives as well as the requirements of all departments concerned and work with you to develop a differentiated inbound or outsourcing strategy. Of course, we will then also support you in implementing this strategy and, if necessary, in selecting suitable providers and cooperation partners for your logistics.
Our service packages:
- Analyze and evaluate in-sourcing and outsourcing potentials
- Developing individual scenarios and decision-making bases
- Evaluate the economic efficiency and impact of the models
- Supporting implementation and organizational changes
- Selecting suitable logistics partners and supporting tenders
Your benefit:
- Sound decision-making basis for your make-or-buy strategy
- Greater efficiency and flexibility in your logistics organization
- Reduction of cost and process risks
- Precise selection of suitable logistics partners
Maturity analysis
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your logistics
With a maturity level analysis, we identify and analyze the current status and development potential of your logistics. The determined maturity level then provides you with information on where you currently stand in comparison to “logistical excellence” and where the greatest opportunities still exist to further optimize processes.
The result can therefore be used to improve your logistics concept and gradually implement these improvements in concrete steps. We will then be happy to support you in taking these steps and preparing your employees for the upcoming changes.
Our service packages:
- Analyze the maturity level of your logistics holistically
- Identify strengths, weaknesses and development potential
- Define target image and desired maturity level and work out concrete development steps
- Align maturity level development with your logistics strategy
Your benefit:
- Transparency about the current development status of your logistics
- Comparability with best practices and market standards
- Independent assessment of optimization potential
- Structured further development of your logistics organization
- Greater internal acceptance of the change process
Digitalization in logistics
Exploiting optimization potential through suitable digital solutions
Digital technologies make it possible to unlock potential for change in logistics that would be inconceivable without them. Costs can be reduced and the available specialists and resources can be deployed much more efficiently. This in turn can be used in particular to noticeably increase service and reliability for customers.
Networked digital systems also have the advantage that processes can be displayed and tracked much more transparently – this provides a much better database for future and much more reliable decisions.
However, the large number of digital solutions on the market is almost unmanageable. Which innovative system is best suited to your individual requirements? We analyse your logistics processes and work with you to identify potential for optimization through digitalization. As an independent consultancy, we will introduce you to possible suitable partners after a thorough pre-selection and evaluation and accompany you on the way to your next digitization step after the decision has been made.
Our service packages:
- Analyze existing logistics processes and digitalization potential
- Describe end-to-end processes and define requirements
- Identify possible uses for suitable IT tools
- Compare, evaluate and select suitable logistics software (e.g. WMS)
- Integrating new technologies into intralogistics (e.g. RFID, cloud data storage)
- Support implementation through project and change management methods
Your benefit:
- Greater efficiency through digitally optimized processes
- More transparency through better data availability and greater depth of information
- Sound selection of suitable technologies and software solutions
- Reduction of implementation and investment risks
- Sustainable and scalable logistics processes
Green Logistics
Working sustainably and conserving resources
Sustainability aspects are playing an increasingly important role in the strategic considerations of many companies. Public pressure plays a role here, as do foreseeable future effects such as rising energy prices and changing mobility.
Green logistics therefore incorporates these aspects, environmental costs as well as resource consumption, into your company’s holistic logistics strategy. Where can processes be completely eliminated or implemented in a more environmentally friendly and resource-saving way?
Together with you, we analyze the areas in which your logistics strategy, structures and processes are already sustainable and cost-efficient and where there is further potential for optimization. Based on this, we develop concrete and implementable measures to realize the identified improvements.
Our service packages:
- Define sustainability targets and key figures
- Analyze logistics strategy, structures and processes for defined sustainability criteria
- Derive fields of action for a “green logistics” strategy
- Develop concrete measures to reduce CO₂ and conserve resources
- Evaluate and prioritize measures based on corporate goals
- Validate measures through digital simulations (e.g. material flow and transport routes)
Your benefit:
- Optimization of your logistics concept in terms of ecological sustainability
- Compliance with sustainability targets such asCO2 neutrality(climate neutrality or net zero)
- Strengthening environmental awareness within your company
- Well-founded measures as a basis for internal and external image improvement (CSR)
- Future-proof positioning through sustainable supply chains
How can a company’s logistics be optimized?
There are various starting points for optimizing a company’s logistics. First of all, a thorough and, above all, comprehensive analysis of the status quo is required in order to be able to examine the current situation for weaknesses and deficiencies.
Various aspects can then be considered for optimization, the benefits of which must be specifically evaluated and checked in each individual case, for example:
- Shortening delivery and transportation routes
- Automation of operating processes
- Outsourcing of specialized work
- Digitalization of processes and process controls
- Reduction or expansion of warehousing
