Logistics and Supply Chain
Optimise supply chain efficiency, reduce operational costs, and enhance service reliability while maintaining resilience and agility across your entire logistics network.
Transforming Logistics Through Data-Driven Intelligence
Logistics operations face unprecedented complexity in today's interconnected world.
From supply chain volatility to evolving customer expectations, logistics companies must optimise every aspect of their networks while managing costs and ensuring reliable service delivery. BSC helps logistics companies navigate these challenges through scientific methodologies that transform operational performance.
Our logistics solutions span the complete supply chain ecosystem – from strategic network design and capacity planning to real-time operational optimisation and predictive analytics.
Our Logistics Solutions
Operational Science for Logistics
Everything we do focuses on improving cash flow through operational excellence. Our operations science solutions optimise logistics operations, improve throughput, and enhance return on capital through simulation, integrated planning, and AI-driven insights.
Advisory Services
Identify critical bottlenecks limiting productivity, typically increasing throughput by 10-15% and unlocking $5-20 million in additional annual revenue without significant capital investment.
Test operational scenarios without risk, reducing capital overruns by 15-25% and potentially saving $30-100 million on large projects through optimised network configuration.
Assess how operational changes impact fleet performance, improving operational flexibility by 25-40% whilst maintaining service performance.
Enablement Solutions
Create medium-term planning models with integrated financials, increasing forecast accuracy by 25-40% and reducing budget cycle times by 30-50%.
Optimise responses to variability, improving resource utilisation by 15-25% and reducing idle time and overtime costs by $2-5 million.
Understand not just what is happening, but WHY it is happening, reducing problem-solving cycles by 40-60% and identifying 5-15% in cost reduction opportunities.
BSC for Logistics
Deep Logistics
Expertise
End-to-End
Solutions
Measurable
Results
Our solutions deliver quantifiable improvements – typically 10-20% capital efficiency improvements, 30-50% faster response to disruptions, and 50-70% reduction in analysis cycle times.
Technology Leadership
Sustainable Capabilities
Strategic Planning
Quantified working capital duration for the first time and determined optimal storage capacity for key warehouses, ensuring the supply chain could meet growing demand.
Logistics (Lithium Supply Chain)
Business Planning
Reduced planning process time from 3-hour weekly meetings to an automated 20-minute process while significantly improving plan confidence.
Logistics (Bulk Materials)
Identified savings opportunities equivalent to 4% of total fuel spend (R60 million per annum) by analysing just 50% of total kilometres travelled.
Logistics (3PL Provider)
Execution Support
Turned around a 90-truck beer transport contract from loss to R2+ million profit per month through data-driven performance management.
Logistics (First Mile 3PL)
Predicted tread wear to within 2.5mm accuracy, enabling proactive maintenance scheduling and reduced downtime.
Logistics (Fleet Management)
Demonstrated capability to process 26% more containers with existing workforce and potential for 11% workforce reduction while maintaining performance.
Logistics (Bulk Cargo Port)