Sectors / Projects

The designing of logistics services to support military and defence operations presents a set of challenges that do not exist in other sectors.

The design of a military/defence logistics network must take into account the following factors:-

 

• Security
• Regulations
• Safety
• Secrecy
• Varying service levels
• Surge activities: representing significant peaks in activity
• True multi modal operations

We have experience of transport and warehousing operations to support military logistics operations both at a national and unit level.  Our experience has resulted in the design of logistics operations with the following freight types:-

 

1. General freight
2. Section 5
3. Munitions
4. PEP’s
5. add more if necessary

We have experience working directly with the MOD at all levels as well as civilian third party logistics providers operating in the defence sector.

Data Availability and Collection within the Defence Sector

A major challenge in this sector is the availability and collection of accurate logistics data.  We have gained a great deal of experience of the processes involved to build an accurate data set to allow military and defence logistics operations to be modelled.  With such a diverse range of software across the military disciplines, building a data set in a common format can often present challenges before any modelling and design work has even started.  From combining output from different platforms through to a manual data collection exercise where accurate historical data does not exist, we are confident that we can build an accurate data set to allowing meaningful design work to take place.

Major Projects

We have completed major projects involving military warehousing and transport network re-modelling.  The projects involved a complete re-design of current logistics systems and strategies.  We have also been involved in transition projects, moving from the design stage to operational implementation.

We have extensive experience of designing and modelling drinks logistics systems.  We have been involved in major national projects covering all aspects of the drinks supply chain:-

 

• Primary transport operations
• Secondary dray operations
• Stocked distribution centre design
• Semi stocked DC’s
• Yard operations
• Facilities location problems
• Warehouse and yard layouts to provide optimum space utilisation and product flows