Logistics is not just about moving goods: it is the real engine of your competitiveness. In a market that demands immediate responses and absolute precision, inefficient warehouse or transport management can turn into an unsustainable cost.
With fischer Consulting’s logistics consulting, we turn your supply chain into a strategic advantage: we apply Lean Management principles to slash lead times, eliminate waste and give you a smooth, scalable flow of goods that is fully focused on customer service. Set your value in motion, without hold-ups.
What is Logistics Consulting?
Having a quality product and efficient production is not enough if flows of materials and information do not move quickly and in an orderly way.
Logistics is the set of processes that ensures the customer receives the right product, in the right quantity, at the right place and at the right time, while keeping costs aligned with the service level.
fischer Consulting’s logistics consulting aims to optimise the end-to-end supply chain, reducing waste and increasing productivity through a mix of strategic, technical and digital expertise.
What is Logistics Consulting for?
Logistics Consulting and Supply Chain Management give you full control over the entire production process.
fischer Consulting can act on the main strategic flows:
Warehouses
We develop advanced organisational models and stock management strategies to maximise efficiency.
Our picking methods reduce waiting times and increase productivity, while Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) ensure precision, speed and traceability in day-to-day operations.
Logistics layouts
We design and implement optimised warehouse layouts using advanced CAD tools.
The right layout not only makes workflows more efficient, but also improves operator safety.
Material flows
We optimise flows using innovative techniques such as:
- cross-docking
- milk run
- dynamic route planning
These tools reduce handling costs, shorten lead times and improve customer service.
What are the benefits?
Choosing fischer Consulting for your logistics means achieving:
- lower operating costs,
- greater productivity in warehouse space,
- faster, more reliable delivery times,
- lean, safe flows,
- greater end-customer satisfaction.
Why Us
The fischer Consulting method
Our method combines on-site analysis and Lean tools with our proprietary fischer Process System (fPS) model.
In particular, our logistics consulting is carried out in three phases:
Redefine your Logistics
HOW WE DO IT
Logistics Assessment
Internal handling, transport and warehousing are often taboo subjects in companies.
Managing the warehouse as a commodity and material handling as an afterthought is typical of many companies, and usually gives the business owner or the organisation itself a sense of reassurance and security.
fischer Consulting therefore proposes an analysis of the logistics function, broken down into its main areas:
external transport or handling
unloading and initial goods acceptance
warehouse storage
picking for production or dispatch
in-plant material handling
preparation for dispatch and loading
What does it involve?
fischer Consulting’s logistics assessment is divided into three main stages:
Throughout all phases of the assessment, historical movement, stock and consumption data are compared with direct interviews with the process owners, as well as with plant visits, or gemba walks.
The final summary of the logistics assessment will include:
- An analysis of the current state, or as-is, focusing in detail on the points of attention, or enablers, that are currently constraining logistics processes
- An improvement plan that can deliver a rapid benefit to the company, with a direct impact on financials such as cash flow and EBITDA
Who takes part?
The logistics assessment involves teamwork, with:
the process owners
such as the logistics manager, the supply chain manager, the production manager, the logistics process managers, etc.
the external fischer Consulting team
which brings the approach and analysis method typical of the logistics assessment
Where does it take place?
The fischer Consulting assessment is an analysis phase that combines interviews and data collection carried out in the office with visits to the gemba, made directly on site, where things actually happen.
This combination ensures that the objective analysis of the data has a direct counterpart on the gemba, confirming or overturning the information held in the information systems.
The results
Logistics analysis outputs
Executive Report
It covers:
- the strengths to be sustained and spread across logistics processes
- the points of attention to be optimised and made more efficient for the benefit of logistics
- the economic impact on the business once the strong processes have been sustained and the points of attention resolved. These quantitative impacts are described in terms of cash flow, or other KPIs linked to the company’s financial strength and solvency.
proposed intervention
a so-called “target condition”, defined on the basis of the assessment results, which can enable the company to achieve a target economic impact.
If management decides to invest in optimising logistics and its related processes, an implementation plan can be issued for the logistics process efficiency and optimisation project. This implementation plan will be supported by the expertise and know-how of the fischer Consulting team.
