Helping the warehouse & logistics sector to
Go further.

New Warehouse projects?

Space Constraints?

Offsite storage costs increasing?

Productivity Challenges?

Skills & Experience?

Supply Chain challenges?

Re-layout of existing warehouse?

Storage solutions required?

Freight cost soaring?

Talk to us about how we can help.

Develop Consulting are improvement experts working with the warehouse operations and logistics businesses to transform how they work by identifying issues and improving operational performance.

We have many years’ experience across the sector delivering specialised support in a wide range of critical areas. From developing space and storage solutions, improving shopfloor productivity, inventory reduction and designing new facilities, we’re here to ignite transformative change that optimises your processes and elevates the quality of your services.

Working alongside you to help transport the warehouse and logistics sector.

We understand the rapid pace of change in the systems and processes that warehouse and logistics companies operate within, as well as the extensive range of services they provide to their customers.

Our dedicated team of experienced consultants spans the entire spectrum of warehouse and logistics environments. Whether you’re managing material supply for production or line-side, responding to the lead-times demanded by retail customers, or overseeing global inventories across multiple distribution centres, our hands-on approach and expertise add tangible value to your endeavours.

Our delivery.

With much of our team having a first-hand experience of Toyota motor manufacturing in the UK and Japan, our preferred delivery methodology is Lean.

Flexible and robust, Lean improvement methodology has been successfully implemented by major organisations around the world.

Develop Consulting will work with your team to transfer our knowledge, ensuring improvements are sustainable.

Projects we have supported:

> Specialist hydraulic Manufacture

Significantly improving stock integrity and increased material availability for production

> Major logistics company

Provided clear understanding of their cost to serve and eliminating a severe space challenge

> UK food wholesaler

Increasing pick rates and reducing vehicle turnaround times

> Modular home manufacture

Designing the layout for a major production facility and developing processes to meet required output

> Major automotive manufacture

Re-designed logistics from supplier to plant, helping to stabilise production

> Access control manufacture

Resolved orderbook backlog and reduced customer lead-times

> Global aerospace manufacture

Designed layout for US facility and reduced the customers original footprint

> Major 3PL provider

Significant long-term savings in operational and facility costs

> Tier 1 automotive business

Deployed lean tools and techniques to help reduce freight costs

Our Support

Our clients typically ask us to support them with:

  • Improve productivity to help increase output and expand value adding services
  • Improve space utilisation, reduce the requirements for offsite storage and optimising inventory
  • Delivering continuous improvement training
  • Integrating the latest innovations in automation and digital advancements
  • Support with KPI development, visualising performance at all levels of the business
  • Improving planning processes to better utilise resources
  • Improve supplier development to reduce costs across the supply chain
  • Improve Quality for the customer and increase reverse logistics capability
  • Developing processes and standard ways of working to support integrate with new or existing WMS/ERP management systems
  • Help design new or existing facility layouts to maximise productivity and output capacity within the optimal footprint

Let us help your business Go further.