Warehousing and logistics

Warehousing and logistics require a highly efficient and robust supply chain and clear operational processes, to ensure businesses in this sector can successfully achieve their goals. Getting your logistics and warehouse management right the first time can help you mitigate risks and challenges that the complexity of the industry brings.

Innovative business solutions for warehousing and logistics

Jigsaw Business Group consultants have hands-on experience in warehousing and logistics, giving us unique insight into businesses and the expertise to provide bespoke solutions that drive transformational change and success. Whether you need support with business improvement, supply chain, or specialist recruitment, we cover a wide range of business services to fully meet your requirements as a warehousing and logistics business. Through our quality improvement, solutions, we provide the necessary skills and resources to keep your business growing and driving results.

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What challenges do warehouse and logistics businesses face?

By its nature, warehousing and logistics relies on consumer demand and the sector typically faces many financial challenges. As well as this, if not implemented and managed effectively, warehouses can be a supply chain inefficiency. When it is handled correctly however, warehouse activities can improve sales, margins, and boost your business reputation with new and existing customers.

Taking all these factors into account, it’s essential that businesses utilise the latest ideas, systems, and processes. Thankfully the Jigsaw team is on hand to help warehouse and logistics businesses identify potential risks and opportunities, to ensure they’re always operating at the forefront of the industry and meeting their goals and objectives.

Our approach

Our warehousing and logistics consultancy services are designed to be flexible to the needs of each client we work with, making sure each business gets tailored solutions that are applicable to their business model, industry, and processes.

We take a focused and measurable approach, delivering premium level complementary support services, using a team of industry specialists with unrivalled warehousing and logistics sector knowledge. Jigsaw ensures your business is operating as efficiently and cost effectively as possible through our multi-disciplinary services including:

Business consultancy
Recruitment
Sustainable solutions
Digital solutions

Supply Chain Case Study

Project Summary

Product: Traffic management systems, Electronics

Service: Stock optimisation – PCBs

The Challenge

Yunex Traffic in Poole, UK has been separated in 2022 from Siemens and became an independent Ltd company
Component crisis since 2020 brought significant changes in stock holding and delivery patterns
Stock levels of PCBs are doubled since component crisis started – Sept 21
Yunex asked Jigsaw to help identify the root cause of the inflated stock and review their own internal SIOP process to recommend improvements

The Solution

Jigsaw provided two experts in supply chain, material planning and logistics and conducted an in-depth study of Yunex’ ordering and supply process.
Areas of study included forecasting, customers’ orders, suppliers’ orders, ERP, manufacturing and dispatch
The data was compared to best-case stockholding practices and then worked backward to derive targets for stockholding at Yunex
SIOP process analysed and contrasted with best-fit process to identify actions

Why Jigsaw Business Group?

A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;

Key Achievements

List of prioritised workstreams to reduce stock by 62%
Mapped out best-fit SIOP process, including training plan
Expected customer benefit £250k per year

Other Case Studies

Alstom Rail

Product: Passenger trains

Service: Demand planning, capacity and supply improvement

Arkal Automotive

Arkal Automotive, one of the world’s leading thermoplastic automotive parts manufacturers required a solution to meet its increased production requirements across Eastern Europe. The company commissioned Jigsaw Business Group to carry out a supplier sourcing process. Through vigorous desktop screening to full on-site audits, scoring and ranking, Jigsaw Business Group presented a series of recommendations that were implemented by Arkal Automotive which allowed the company to meet its production needs with the appointment of a new trusted supplier offering multiple benefits.

Yunex Traffic in Poole, UK has been separated in 2022 from Siemens and became an independent Ltd company
Component crisis since 2020 brought significant changes in stock holding and delivery patterns
Stock levels of PCBs are doubled since component crisis started – Sept 21
Yunex asked Jigsaw to help identify the root cause of the inflated stock and review their own internal SIOP process to recommend improvements

Jigsaw provided two experts in supply chain, material planning and logistics and conducted an in-depth study of Yunex’ ordering and supply process.
Areas of study included forecasting, customers’ orders, suppliers’ orders, ERP, manufacturing and dispatch
The data was compared to best-case stockholding practices and then worked backward to derive targets for stockholding at Yunex
SIOP process analysed and contrasted with best-fit process to identify actions

A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;