This volatility, together with ever-higher competitive pressures, is placing greater demands on distributors and other logistics operators to optimize their warehouse, fleet, and light manufacturing operations and turn them into a source of competitive advantage.
Working with distributors and transport logistics providers, we identified new strategies for improving competitiveness for operations. By viewing the network as a strategic asset, and applying an integrated approach that involves both the operations and sales departments, logistics providers can generate more benefits from existing customer relationships and from product and service innovations. Additionally, companies can derive competitive advantage and create more value by engaging senior management in the strategic decision making process for network management.
