Retail supply chain consulting
Retail supply chain consulting for high street and e-commerce operations. We’ve delivered over 180 major projects with well-known retail brands. Our consultants can help find the best solution for your short term and long-term needs.
Engineering certainty for retailers
It’s a difficult market for retailers. Economic pressures are squeezing consumers’ budgets and global crises are increasingly disrupting supply chains. To help meet these challenges, we’ll engineer certainty into your operations. By creating efficient, resilient, and agile supply chains, you’ll be able to save costs, react quickly to fluctuating demand, prepare in advance for potential shortages, and ultimately serve your customers better.
180+
retail projects delivered
Data-led advice
We can help you excel with your retail supply chain management. We use data, experience, and advanced technology to make informed decisions that are right for your business. We’ll dig into the details of your logistics operations to make solid recommendations for saving costs and driving growth in your retail supply chain.
By analysing seasonal sales trends, we’ll provide valuable insights into high and low-risk items, helping you to maximise your margins. We’ll focus on the details that matter, drawing on our proven track record to dramatically reduce wasted spend while uncovering opportunities for increasing company profits and maximising growth.
Our data-driven approach analyses historical assortment data and stock lifecycles to identify areas for cost reduction across your entire supply chain. This helps you to free up capital to invest in improving your digital capabilities, ensuring efficient order fulfilment and a compelling omnichannel experience.
Not only are our solutions tried and tested, but we’re also able to use the latest technology to create models for future growth that we’ll help you to test and implement. With our innovative virtual warehousing networks, we’ll optimise your physical supply chain, ensuring agility, cost-effectiveness, and success.
Our retail supply chain consulting will allow you to
- Optimise every stage. By analysing the relationship between expense and activity we’ll pinpoint areas for improvement and show you how every business choice impacts your profitability.
- Enhance customer service. Deliver on time and in full every time. We’ll help you to build trust and loyalty with your customers by exceeding their expectations.
- Understand your cost to serve. We’ll go beyond surface-level data to reveal the true impact of business decisions and market dynamics on your cost to service.
- Benchmark your performance. Measure yourself against leading retailers to gain valuable insights on where and how to improve your competitive edge.
- Modernise. We’ll streamline your operations to reduce manual labour expenses and minimise errors with efficient technological solutions like automation and mechanisation.
Frequently asked questions
Every product that sits on retailers’ shelves and everything that’s available to buy online relies on the retail supply chain. The retail supply chain is the entire network that facilitates getting products onto shelves or delivered into the hands of customers. This network might involve third-party logistics (3PL) to manage fulfilment. This covers sourcing the raw materials, manufacturing products, storing finished stock, and transporting goods by land, sea or air to fulfil orders.
Physical logistics. We’ll help you to improve your physical logistics with flexible fulfilment solutions and tools like route optimisation and real-time tracking, ensuring smooth, cost-effective deliveries.
Cost to serve. We’ll analyse your order fulfilment, delivery costs, returns processing and inventory management to understand your true cost-to-serve. We’ll then leverage this data and analytics to identify hidden costs and areas for quick wins and long-term improvements.
Automation & mechanisation. We’ll strategically enhance the efficiency and accuracy across your operations through automating repetitive tasks. From picking and packing systems to order processing and data entry, we’ll help you to explore and implement robotic solutions for managing your inventory.
Yes! We specialise in flexible, scalable, and fully managed warehousing solutions for physical and online retailers. You’ll pay only for the storage space you actually use without any long-term commitments. Bespoke and fully managed service agreements are available.
Find out more about our retail warehousingRelated case studies
Physical logistics
UK Retail Transport Optimisation and Cost reduction Project targeted to identify group-wide opportunities for transport improvement and solution optimisation
£11m to £38m Group Savings p.a.
Physical logistics
Warehouse productivity modelling using industrial engineering techniques to enable budgeting and performance enhancement
10.7% Productivity Enhancement
Physical logistics
