Optimise logistics
Kloepfel Consulting reduces logistics costs by up to 20% in the long term by eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain and digitising processes. Targeted Optimise logistics ensures not only significant liquidity advantages, but simultaneously increases delivery reliability and competitiveness in volatile markets. We identify your cost drivers and implement measurable improvements in transport, warehousing, and structure directly.
Holistic Strategies to Optimise Your Logistics
To achieve long-term savings, we consider your logistics not in isolation, but as an integral part of the value chain. From strategic network planning to operational freight tendering, we analyse all goods and information flows. The goal is a lean, resilient logistics organisation that reacts flexibly to market changes while simultaneously minimising process costs.
Key Facts Optimising Logistics
- Cost reduction: Identification and realisation of savings potential in freight, warehousing, and personnel.
- Process efficiency: Elimination of redundancies and acceleration of lead times.
- Transparency: Building KPI systems for seamless logistics performance management.
- Future viability: Implementation of digital tools (TMS/WMS) and sustainable logistics concepts.
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Holistic and sustainable optimisation of logistics
Optimise logistics: Towards more efficient processes in 4 steps
To achieve sustainable results in the supply chain, a structured approach is required. Our consultants will support you holistically โ from the initial data analysis to measurable cost reduction. This is how we proceed in practice:
- Creating transparency (current state analysis): We scrutinise your existing logistics networks, freight contracts, and warehousing structures. Through detailed data preparation, we identify hidden cost drivers and inefficient processes.
- Assessing potential and developing concepts: Using the analysed data, we develop tailor-made strategies. We examine which routes can be consolidated, which stock levels can be reduced, and where external service providers can be deployed more efficiently.
- Conducting tenders & negotiations: We handle the preparation and execution of freight tenders for you. With our in-depth market and benchmark knowledge, we negotiate with freight forwarders and logistics service providers on an equal footing.
- Implementation & Controlling: The best strategy is only effective in its execution. We support the integration of new processes and sustainably secure the achieved savings through continuous freight and logistics controlling.
Strategically realign freight and storage structures
The demands on modern supply chains are changing rapidly. In addition to direct transport costs, the strategic positioning of your network is the greatest lever for optimising your logistics for the future.
- Making make-or-buy decisions: We objectively analyse whether operating your logistics in-house is still economically viable, or whether outsourcing to external service providers (3PL/4PL) offers more flexibility and cost advantages.
- Adaptation of warehouse and network design: Through strategic site planning and the analysis of material flows, we shorten your delivery times, reduce transshipments and lower global distribution costs.
- Digitising and automating processes: We identify manual and time-consuming steps in intralogistics. We then define the requirements for perfectly tailored IT solutions (e.g. transport or warehouse management systems) to accelerate information flows.
Your advantages through our holistic logistics optimisation
To compete globally, it's not enough to just make one adjustment. Kloepfel Consulting focuses on the critical levers of your supply chain to both reduce costs and improve performance:
- Reducing freight costs: Optimising cargo space, route planning and transport service providers through professional benchmark analyses.
- Reduction of storage costs: Avoidance of excess stock and optimisation of space utilisation through data-driven ABC/XYZ analyses.
- Effective bottleneck management: Early identification and consistent resolution of bottlenecks across the entire supply chain.
- Sustainability (Green Logistics): Reduce your carbon footprint by consolidating shipments and choosing more efficient transport routes.
- Reducing packaging costs: adapting packaging material and design to better utilise transport capacity and reduce transit damage.
Optimising Logistics: No Savings, No Fee
Our remuneration is 100 % based on your logistics savings โ without measurable cost reduction, our fee is waived.
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FAQ: Important Questions to Optimise Logistics
Das Hauptziel der Logistik Optimierung ist es, die Effizienz von Lieferketten zu steigern und Kosten zu senken, indem die Bewegung und Lagerung von Waren auf bestmรถgliche Weise geplant und gesteuert wird.
The primary aim is to achieve an optimal balance between logistics costs and the service level. It's about reducing waste, shortening delivery times, and minimising stock levels while maintaining or increasing delivery capability.
When is an optimisation project worthwhile for my business?
Optimisation is advisable whenever logistics costs are growing faster than revenue, delivery quality is declining, or the complexity of your supply chain (e.g., due to internationalisation) has significantly increased.
What role does digitalisation play in logistics optimisation?
Digitalisation is the enabler: The use of Transport Management Systems (TMS) or Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) generates data which is essential for precise control and automation of processes.
How can transport costs be quickly reduced?
Short-term successes can often be achieved through strategic freight tenders, shipment consolidation, and the optimisation of route planning and transport mode selection.
How long does it take for results to become visible?
While strategic realignments (e.g. location selection) can take 12 to 24 months, operational optimisations in freight procurement or process streamlining often show measurable effects on cash flow after just 3 to 6 months.