Benchmarking, Strategy & Innovation

Project Sponsor: Head of Logistics Development & Supply Chain Director

Client:

Leading UK Highstreet & Online Retailer

Category:

Supply Chain Consulting

11 July 2021

A strategic development project to enhance multi-channel digital fulfilment capacity by utilising spare space in an existing facility, by considering alternative automation options.

THE CHALLENGE

Forecasts were showing that additional DC fulfilment capacity will be required as demand switches from store to online
An existing site has spare space available for re-deployment. It also has existing automation in the site used for store picking. How could this space be best utilised and what automation should be deployed to best meet the order profile, product range and financial payback requirements? Could an accelerated implementation project timeline be achieved to meet business online growth ambitions?

OUR APPROACH

Gathered initial data and visited the sites to understand volume flows and operations
Created a ‘long list’ of potential automation solution options, identifying initial capital outlay, annual savings and financial payback
High level modelling to ascertain key drivers for e.g. skus, peak volumes, proposition
Evaluated and filtered this list against key criteria including business fit, pragmatic operational fit to the site, degree of modularity, ease of integration, financial payback
Recommended three options from this list, and progressed to first level solution design
Facilitated reference visits for the customer team to see the proposed automation solutions and speak with other retailers to share learnings and experiences
Recommended final two options for final design and costing
Input to stakeholder and business briefing packs, supported the senior team

CUSTOMER BENEFITS

The customer received clear recommendations on shortlisting options to get to a recommended final two
This was all achieved within six weeks, enabling the customer to hit timescales for internal capital allocation processes

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Benchmarking, Strategy & Innovation

Project Sponsor: Head of Logistics Development & Supply Chain Director

THE CHALLENGE

OUR APPROACH

CUSTOMER BENEFITS

RELATED PROJECTS

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Logistics Network Strategy

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