Logistics Solutions Designing

Leading companies appear to have mastered a number of critical tasks and behaviours in building 1st Quartile type performance in Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Architect/integrator
  • Supply Chain Visionary
  • Supply Chain Re-engineers
  • Programme Manager
  • Change Manager
  • Business Case manager
  • Continuous innovator
CHANGE LEADER
Control Room (intelligence)
  • Experienced Logisticians
  • Optimisation engines and Decision support
  • “All seeing eye”
  • Manager of Multiple Suppliers
  • Continuous Improvement
DECISION MAKER
Supply Chain infomediary
  • IT system integration
  • IT infrastructure provision
  • Real time data tracking
  • Convert data to information
  • Provide info to point of need
  • Technical support
INFORMATION MANAGER
Resource Providers
  • Transportation asset provider
  • Warehouse, cross-dock, property facility
  • Manufacturing (outsourcing)
  • Procurement service
  • Packing service
ASSET MANAGER

limitations of TSP

Customers are increasingly noting some limitations of traditional service providers (TSP)

  • Need supply chain management not just logistics provision
  • Significant time needed to manage 3PL.
  •  TSP focus is utilisation of own assets not value .
  • TSP have limited skills in full range of supply chain activities.

  • Many TSP lack supply chain optimisation skills to achieve. world-class performance, but there are leaders.
  • One-time reduction versus continuous improvement.

  • TSP struggle to meet escalating service requirements.
  • Integrating, enabling technologies have fallen short of requirements.
  •  Often weak project and change management.


Typically, most organisations move from a transactional relationship to the use of a lead logistics provider which is where most of the relationships currently lie


“A Solution designer is an integrator that assembles the resources, capabilities, and technology of its own organisation and other organisations to design, build, run and continuously improve comprehensive supply chain solutions, by creating and sharing value”



Whereas a TSP typically manages discrete parts of the supply chain, at Prologis Freight we may play a role in all parts of the supply chain to optimise material and information flows