Warehouse leaders, especially those overseeing small to mid-size distribution centers, face a host of daily challenges while trying to improve throughput, manage labour pressures, and control costs, leaving them little bandwidth to properly assess warehouse performance, identify operational bottlenecks, and benchmark performance against industry standards. This is where our supply chain consulting experts provide practical insights backed by decades of operational experience, while our warehouse performance diagnostic tool delivers a clear picture of your operation and its true potential.
Our comprehensive warehouse benchmarking tool significantly reduces what would traditionally be an eight-plus week warehouse performance assessment to ~ three weeks, saving your business time and money while identifying the highest-impact opportunities to improve warehouse operations, productivity, and cost performance.
Within this accelerated assessment timeframe, we collect operational data and warehouse performance metrics to benchmark your operation against more than 120 industry-specific KPIs and curated performance benchmarks.
We then load your KPIs into this tool which compares them against our industry data set. Based on the features of your DC, it automatically detects potential opportunities and calculates business case ranges based on what similar organizations are able to achieve.
With clear operational insights and benchmarking data, your business will save time with internal decision making for the best path forward.
Our warehouse benchmarking tool evaluates your performance across key warehouse metrics including:
We use our proprietary warehouse benchmarking and diagnostic tools to identify performance gaps and develop practical solutions that improve warehouse operations and long-term supply chain performance.
As an example, see how you compare to the average warehouse benchmarks for all industries in both Canada and the US.
Free Consultation & Demo
Sign up for a free consultation and demo of our warehouse and diagnostic benchmarking tool. We will guide you through the end-to-end process and help you determine whether our warehouse consulting services align with your operational goals and warehouse performance improvement priorities.
How Our Benchmarking Service Works
Our supply chain performance improvement experts will work with you to collect warehouse data and may visit your site to assess key areas of your warehouse. Through a warehouse simulation, we will benchmark your organization against highly specific, tactical KPIs for your industry segment.
Benchmark Reporting
We provide a report of your warehouse findings, and recommendations on high impact areas to improve, prioritized by the size of opportunity and the value add.
How To Achieve Savings
You will understand the solutions and how to achieve savings and improved performance through a high-level implementation roadmap. If you need our help to implement, this is where we can advance progress and outcomes through our specialized skillsets and experience in supply chain optimization.
Our warehouse consulting services are delivered by supply chain professionals with hands-on operational experience across warehousing, distribution, and supply chain environments. Our team understands the operational realities warehouse leaders face across main industries. They have been in your shoes.
We specialize in warehouse performance improvement, industrial engineering, lean six sigma and project management that collectively will solve your current warehouse challenges including:
Our collaborative approach means we involve your key stakeholders in solving problems and validating solutions. By engaging your team early and ensuring they understand the need for change, we build accountability and buy-in across the organization. When your team is aligned, they are motivated, engaged and invested in improving your warehouse operations together through process and flow design improvements that are achievable, sustainable and will make their jobs easier.
Warehouses and Supply Chain networks attempting to benchmark their performance often rely on reports and case studies that are not relevant to their industry or are out of date. Over the course of our 20 years of experience in warehouse and supply chain network assessments, we’ve gathered very detailed and difficult-to-obtain tactical metrics and over 120 KPIs you’ll struggle to find elsewhere.
We use these warehouse benchmarks to identify potential opportunities for your business and build a solid business case on the ROI you can achieve by implementing relevant solutions.
Our warehouse performance diagnostic is completed in 3 weeks (on average), as opposed to the norm of 6-12 weeks or longer studies, and we do this at a fraction of the cost. [See FAQs to learn more about how we’re able to do this]. This means we’re able to move to implementation of solutions faster, and achieve ‘quick wins’ along the way that will set you up for long-term success.
Our diagnostic service can include a warehouse slotting/profiling analysis to rapidly examine your order fulfillment and put away pick paths, enabling layout adjustment recommendations. Most efforts of a similar nature from other providers can take months.
Our report is not just based on a set of numbers. We work with your people, listen to your business needs and apply anecdotal and evidence-based analysis, which is included in our report on benchmarking KPIs.
Our warehouse performance diagnostic naturally provides you with compelling business cases for future improvement opportunities, and our team ensures that you know how to achieve these savings – which projects to consider and prioritize, and a high-level implementation roadmap to actually get there.
Here’s what you can expect from our Warehouse Consulting Services:
Customized Benchmarking Report
This benchmarking report identifies how you perform against top organizations in your specific industry segment across across critical warehouse, operational, and labour-focused KPIs.
Tactical Recommendations
Our specific recommendations are tailored to your unique environment and business priorities, not generic off-the-shelf solutions, and you won’t find with a Google Search. But, they will deliver the results you need. We focus on practical warehouse optimization opportunities that support measurable performance improvements.
Next Steps
We work alongside your team to review benchmarking and diagnostic findings, prioritize improvement opportunities, and align around the recommended next steps.
Should you wish further support to implement the recommendations, The Poirier Group team will provide hands-on implementation support that will yield the greatest operational impact, ROI and that expedite your warehouse performance improvements.
We’ll need to factor in the availability of your data, quality of data, location and number of sites, in order to quickly give you an estimate. Please contact us to provide a quote and for more information about payment.
On average, dependent on the size of your operation, our benchmarking report can usually lay out a multi-million dollar business case for improvements. While each client has unique circumstances, we typically find 10-12% improvement in throughput, 5-7% in cost per case and a variety of other direct and indirect savings.
Depending on the scope, size and data structure, you can expect to allocate 1-4 internal resources along with an average of 2 consultants from The Poirier Group.
This is a proprietary tool that requires specialized expertise to run and understand. As such, it is not a SAAS product. Our team will either travel to your warehouse or conduct an analysis virtually to assess key areas in your warehouse working with our benchmarking tool to generate a tailored report.
Our online benchmarking tool provides a quick comparison of your operations against industry benchmarks, and we can complete a full diagnostic consulting service with expert-led data analysis, site visits, and custom recommendations.
