Warehouse robots are the photogenic side of supply chain automation. The unglamorous truth is that most automation programs succeed or fail long before the first robot arrives, in decisions about network design, freight strategy, data plumbing, and which processes deserve automating at all.
That is consulting work, and the firms that do it well have become as important to automation outcomes as the technology vendors themselves.
The consulting market has also split. Some firms design distribution centers, some negotiate freight, some integrate systems, and a few manage the whole arc from strategy to implemented results. Here are the logistics consulting firms we would point an automation-minded operation toward, and what each is actually best at. [Read more…] about The Best Logistics Consulting Firms for Automation-Ready Supply Chains





