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Logistics consultancy: make your transport spend work harder
Our logistics consultancy reviews how your goods move, how your transport assets are used and how they are routed, and whether in-house, outsourced or a mix gives you the better result. It sits alongside our compliance services and is run by consultants with a combined 40 years' experience.
Transport can be up to 70% of logistics spend
Up to 70%
Transportation costs frequently account for up to 70% of the logistics spend, which makes the use of transport assets and the routing behind them the first place to look. [VERIFY: source for the 70% figure, or soften to "often the largest share", F023]
A review starts there. It does not start with a software sale or a promise of savings: we look at what you move, how and why, and tell you what we would change.
What we review
Routing
How your consignments are routed today, and whether the same jobs could run on fewer legs, better-filled loads or a different mode.
Use of transport assets
Whether the vehicles, containers and contracts you already pay for are used as fully as they could be.
In-house against outsourced
What it costs to run a function yourself against buying it in, job by job.
In-house, outsourced or a mix
We help clients get the most from their in-house capability, their outsourced suppliers, or both. The answer is often a mix: keep what your own team does well, and buy in the rest where a specialist does it better. [VERIFY: how a review is delivered (site visit, data request, written report) and how long it usually takes; describe once Ewan confirms]
Why an independent view helps
We are not associated with any one carrier or supplier. When we suggest a change of route, mode or supplier, we have no network of our own to fill and nothing to gain from steering you to one company. Our freight team books across the market, so the options we recommend are ones we can book now.
Who does the work
Our consultants
Our consultants are business owners who have built and run multi-million-pound businesses, with a combined 40 years' experience.
Ewan Ferguson, our director, owned and ran Thistle Couriers and sold it to Menzies Distribution before setting up Ferguson Logistics. More about the team on our about page. [PLACEHOLDER: consultant names and short bios, with consent]
We move it as well
If the review turns up dangerous goods, we book and manage dangerous goods shipments by air, sea and road.
If you handle them by road regularly, check whether your business needs a safety adviser.
What to have for the first conversation
None of this is needed to book the call, but it makes the first conversation useful.
Your main lanes: where goods go from and to, and how often
Rough volumes by month, and by mode if you know them
The carriers and suppliers you use now
A few recent transport invoices
Any vehicles, containers or contracts you already pay for, used or not
What prompted the question: a cost rise, a new contract, a lost supplier
We keep what you share confidential and use it only for the review. [VERIFY: confidentiality wording with Ewan, or remove]
Compliance
Book a review conversation
A first conversation to understand what you move and where the spend goes. Tell us a little about it below, or call.
Prefer to talk? Call 01224 954954.
Prefer email? Write to info@fergusonlogistics.co.uk, or see all the ways to contact us.