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Our expert warehouse consultants are here to help you cut costs, deliver better service, and maximise efficiency.

INTRODUCTION

Specialist Warehouse Consultants

Warehouses are a supply chain inefficiency – a point where material flow stops and non-value costs begin to build. Reducing those costs can mean anything from redesigning layouts and improving processes to introducing mechanisation or, where viable, full automation.

Whatever the challenge, our experienced warehouse consultants can help you optimise performance and unlock greater efficiency.

WAREHOUSE CONSULTANT

Craig Willoughby CMILT

Craig leads all warehouse consultancy projects including warehousing design, warehouse automation and location assessments.

Craig is our Warehouse consultant with over 25 years of experience.

To discuss your warehouse consultancy requirements please contact Craig.

WAREHOUSING

The Challenges of Warehousing

Every supply chain requires storage at some stage, making efficient warehousing, handling, and inventory management essential to overall performance.

Whether your warehouse supports your manufacturing, retail, or e-commerce operations, the goal is the same – stay organised, efficient, and minimise time and cost. This can be achieved by optimising layouts for faster picking, upgrading MHE for smoother flow, and refining inventory to free up space.

As customer demand shifts supply chains toward faster, more frequent, lower-volume deliveries, warehouse pressures intensify. Rising throughput speeds are exposing operational weaknesses that drive up costs and erode service levels.

Our warehousing consultants are here to help you get your warehouse operations back on track.

CLIENTS

Who we work with

HERE TO HELP

Here to Meet Your Challenges

Successful warehouse design requires both technical expertise and real-world operational experience. Too often, facilities are designed on a ‘roughly right’ basis, or by CAD engineers without accounting for the realities of daily operations. This roughly right approach can often lead to being exactly wrong.

Our team has the technical ability and operational experience to ensure that warehouse designs work in practice as well as on paper, that all options are thoroughly explored, and help secure stakeholder buy-in for major changes.

SERVICES

Warehouse Consultancy Services

Warehouse Design

Whether reconfiguring an existing site or creating a new one, our experts support you from initial design through fit-out, commissioning, and go-live – covering everything from simple APR racking to fully automated facilities.

Inventory Management

Poor inventory management drains capital, wastes space, and increases operating costs. Our warehouse consultants deliver effective inventory policies that optimise space and cash flow.

Warehouse Management

Efficient warehouses rely on process-driven management to reduce waste and boost productivity. Leveraging proven methods like Kaizen, Six Sigma, and TQM, our consultants analyse and optimise every aspect of your operations.

Warehouse Location Analysis

Warehouse location is critical to cutting transport costs and speeding up delivery. Our consultants use advanced modelling to pinpoint the optimal number and placement of distribution sites for maximum efficiency.

Warehouse Facility Search

Finding the right warehouse takes time. Our consultants manage the entire process – from blueprint design and location selection to facility search and conveyancing – so you can focus on running your business.

Logistics

Efficient warehousing depends on seamless logistics. We align warehouse improvements with your transport and logistics operations to deliver maximum efficiency across the supply chain.

INSIGHT

Warehouse Articles & Advice

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Logistics Planning

Effective Warehouse Design – The 5 Step Approach

Warehouses are typically designed around the primary functions of receiving, storage, retrieval, and despatch. The objective of effective warehouse design is to ensure each function

Empty racks in warehouse in black and white

Industry News

A New and Disruptive Model of Warehousing is on its Way

The UK start-up, Stowga, is in the process of bringing a disruptive model to the way warehousing has been previously managed, akin to that of

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Logistics Planning

What to Consider Before Extending a Warehouse Lease

As businesses evolve, customer order patterns change and customer territories expand, it’s not unusual for the distribution requirements of a business to change significantly. Over

Client Testimonials

The team’s experience of the industry, knowledge of logistic providers and their overall understanding of the current market place made a potentially very complex process look and feel very easy.

Their help, guidance and support during the tender process was invaluable and meant that we achieved our desired result with minimal stress for those involved. I could not recommend this consultancy more highly.

Commercially savvy, thoughtful, diligent and pragmatic are the phrases that come to mind. Above all, I’ve been impressed with their ability to translate and adapt the theory to the way our business actually has to work day-to-day.

The consulting team demonstrated a huge amount of experience within the supply chain sector and I really valued their opinion. As experts in the field they were able to present all the various options and associated costings in a very clear, like-for-like basis.

The team at Paul Trudgian has helped us understand our raw material and finished goods inventories in a highly complex global supply chain. Their clear, concise and analytical approach, with stakeholder engagement throughout, helped us reduce inventories while not compromising customer service

I engaged the team at Paul Trudgian to identify and engage a panel of the best regional 3PLs for our business. The consulting team demonstrated an excellent knowledge of the UK logistics market and I really appreciated working with them.

Paul Trudgian have recently been working with us to establish our warehouse capacity and transport effectiveness in order to enhance our service. The team have provided us with a clear picture of the needs for the business despite our complex product and delivery solution. I would have no hesitation recommending them.