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Research and Insights

Crowd Sourced Research Projects

The process of authoring recent industry reports on areas of common interest to multiple parties, exposed the many challenges these parties experienced in finding equitable ways to agree the scope and funding for collaborative research projects.

Following discussions with clients, academic and institutional partners on this, we decided to create a new concept using “crowd sourced” research.

Where sufficient interest in topics are indicated, we will fund the resource to undertake research, produce reports, analysis and models. These can be purchased as packaged or customised, specific research.

Working Knowledge – Living Lab

We have begun curation of a knowledge base, with a growing range of relevant proprietary and open content. It includes presentations, relevant research, useful data, reports and media articles providing specific insight and analysis on current “hot” issues within the industry.

During 2018 we plan to provide open and secure spaces for working collaborations in logistics and value chain innovation. These will be hosted without adverts, opportunistic “data harvesting” or covert observation, enabling users to access a virtual workspace, and use content to co-create material with other interested people, in “living labs”.

If you want to interact on these initiatives, then please get in contact.

Areas Covered In Our Reports

  • How to identify and unlock cost savings in multi-party supply chains (E2E Costing)
  • Quantifying relationships of logistics, in-store replenishment and on-shelf availability (OSA)
  • Using scenario analysis to identify the cost impacts of customer service demands
  • Evaluating the impact of product ranges on in-store availability and out of stocks (OSA-OOS)
  • Flow optimisation of:
    • The range of products to assign to warehouse automation flows
    • Product assignment to route to market and warehouse activity selection
    • In-store space allocation relative to sales and shelf replenishment patterns
    • Equipment selection for end to end logistics and store picking
  • International studies on total cost of ownership (TCO) from raw materials to waste flows
  • Profit and cost impact of using of different display equipment and positions in-store
  • Total value chain level range profitability from SKU detail to summary