Logistics Consulting

It is unlikely that anyone would debate the suggestion that Logistics is one of the most competitive fields of business endeavor imaginable.

Customers are continually demanding better, faster and more streamlined service. Yet they also expect their work to be done at the lowest prices possible.

A marriage of pressures that means that most logistics service providers are continually having to examine their operations to see where improvements can be made and where cost savings can be extracted. Two essential objectives in which MAXimas Consulting Services can provide pivotal help and guidance. More of that in a moment. But first of all, just a few comments on our potent consulting credentials.

To begin with, it’s important to note that members of our consulting team have gained their considerable experience in a great number of geographic locales. And so, while we are clearly attuned to overall ‘Worlds Best Practice’, we are equally aware of the logistics subtleties and nuances of different parts of the globe.

"...MAXimas Consulting Services can provide pivotal help and guidance."

It’s also significant to stress that our expertise has been gained and honed across all aspects of logistics. So we are not just single dimensional specialists who are only adept at warehousing issues. Or of the challenges of transport and haulage. Or who are only able to bring advice to bear when looking at inland ports or container parks, for instance.

Which, among other things, means that MAXimas consultants can be of particular value to clients whose services spread across the supply chain and where integrating these disparate service offerings is of principal concern. Finally, we proudly note that our consulting track record is able to boast an inventory of work for a diverse range of leading and highly respected logistics companies.

So how can we specifically help?

Well, along with most everything we do, our three part focus lies in helping:

• Boosting service and customer retention.
• Enhancing operational efficiencies.
• Assisting in strategic management.
  

Customer Service & Retention

In enhancing customer service and retention our consulting services address such things as:

• How can we give customers total, simple and easy online visibility of the status of their work in whatever we are doing for them? Particularly where we are providing a diverse range of services?
• How can we integrate the billing of different parts of our organization so that customers receive consolidated, consistent and error free invoices?
• As well as online visibility of job progress, what other business-to-business IT tools might we deploy to help lock key customers in to our service.
• What services can we offer that will add value to what our customers are doing for their clients?
  

Operational Efficiency

Among the issues on which our operational consulting can focus are:

• How can our substantially decentralized operations be centrally controlled?
• To what extent are we suffering from ‘revenue leakage’ because we are not certain that all customer work is being fully recorded and billed? How can that leakage be prevented?
• How do we reduce invoice errors and resulting customer disputes?
• How do we better keep all levels of management totally up to date with all aspects of our operations?
• Too often we cannot identify operational problems before they become critical. How can that be resolved?
• How can we successfully handle further growth without a comparable increase in staff levels? Where can we derive substantial productivity gains?
• We need to reduce lead times particularly between the successive tasks we carry out for many clients. How?
• With those successive tasks, how do we reduce time consuming and error prone work duplication?
  

Strategic Management

Here, our strategic consulting capabilities can assist you to simply, accurately and quickly answer:

• What is the profitability of particular services, customers and jobs?
• How are all of our individual operations measuring up against their set KPIs?
• How do we introduce true activity based costing?
• How can we readily identify strategic problems before they become critical?
  

Those consulting contributions all tend to look at things from an overall business viewpoint. What about very specific operational areas? Here too MAXimas consulting is singularly qualified to help.