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 The market for logistics service providers is expected to continue to grow as shippers look for new and innovative ways to reduce their costs, shed non-core competencies and improve their competitive position.
This creates new opportunities but can also bring challenges.
Key challenges facing the logistics service provider industry include:
Achieving Profitable Growth -- Targeting specific industries and geographies, business expansion with current clients and offering high value services are important strategies for profitable growth.
Improving Operating Margins -- Standardizing processes and solutions by customer segment, managing scope and achieving optimal pricing to sell value, not costs, are just a few of the opportunities for logistics service providers to improve operating margins.
Maintaining Operational Excellence -- Logistics service providers are striving to apply lean practices in all operations and are looking to align for organizational effectiveness and use organizational design, change management, training and mentorship to achieve maximum performance.
Driving Competitive Differentiation -- Leading logistics service providers need to develop value-based relationships supported by solution innovation and speed to enable supply chain performance to become a true differentiator for the customer.
Optimizing Portfolio Design -- Logistics service providers can get caught in the trap of expectation of service delivery that is not supported by the people, processes and technologies needed to cope with changing customer needs.
 Logistics Consulting Services
Whether you are focused on profitable growth, margin improvement, operational excellence with competitive differentiation or portfolio optimization, Tompkins Associates is well qualified to establish a growth strategy for logistics and help you achieve your goals.
Tompkins offers complete solutions in global logistics consulting, logistics provider selection, technology implementation and material handling integration.
Tompkins Associates focuses on end-to-end supply chain solutions in the logistics industry, with offices in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia, including Technomic Asia, based in Shanghai, China, and Tompkins International EMEA, based in Germany.
Tompkins Associates has experience designing and executing major projects for:
- Acquisition support
- New market penetration strategies
- Contingency planning and risk mitigation
- Implementation support
- Integration support
- Operations assessment and support
- Overhead cost reduction
- Process standardization and continuous improvement
- Proposal support and business development process
- Training
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A few of our clients:
Partial Client List of Logistics Services Providers and more
Case Study on Logistics Service Providers
Resources
Will 2010 Be the Year of the Logistics Service Provider?
Trouble on the High Seas: Budgets are breaking and shipments are delayed as demand for ocean container transport from Asia outstrips supply. Read more in the article from CFO.com.
Valerie Bonebrake named one of the top "Provider Pros to Know" by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine. more
Benchmarking and Best Practices: How to Join the Supply Chain Consortium
Case studies: Two leading LSPs sought to optimize networks for their existing clients. See more in these two case studies.
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