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Logistics Consulting

Efficient logistics is much more than just the transportation of goods—it is one of the core elements of your value chain. With years of experience, KBC provides logistics consulting services to support you throughout the entire supply chain. Whether it’s logistics strategies, planning, or digital transformation, our team of consultants supports you from analysis through to operational implementation. This ensures that your logistics processes make a measurable contribution to your organization’s delivery capabilities and cost-effectiveness.

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Senior Partner
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Stefan Kemény

Senior Partner at KBC and a management consultant specializing in logistics, with 25 years of experience advising on logistics and transportation

Challenges in Logistics

Looking at logistics in isolation rarely solves the actual problem: it is closely intertwined internally with procurement, production, inventory management, and sales. KBC provides consulting services in all these areas—and can therefore develop logistics strategies that work within the overall system rather than just on paper. With over 1,000 optimized locations worldwide, we are familiar with numerous aspects of the supply chain. This enables us to identify and solve even complex problems that arise elsewhere. 

We also take sustainability requirements into account and develop economically viable models that ensure your long-term viability.

High customer expectations regarding logistics performance

Delivery expectations are rising—excessively long lead times and poor on-time delivery rates will leave your customers deeply disappointed.

Lack of transparency regarding inventory levels, demand, and material flows

Without a clear overview of what needs to go where and when, you can neither plan your requirements nor secure the necessary capacity in a timely manner.

Limited logistics capacity

The logistics market is overheated. Capacity is volatile in many segments or tight at times.

Sharply rising logistics costs

Companies are struggling with massive price increases driven by energy costs, market conditions, and geopolitical risks.

Make or Buy without a clear basis for decision-making

In-house or outsourcing (3PL/4PL)? Without reliable criteria and oversight, the decision remains risky.

Pathways to Resilient Logistics

In addition to logistics strategy and operating models, KBC’s logistics consulting services include logistics planning and optimization, as well as digital transformation.

Logistics Strategy and Operating Model

A sustainable logistics strategy requires the right structural decisions: from operating models and network design to location decisions and make-or-buy choices. In its logistics and transportation consulting services, KBC develops robust roadmaps and evaluates options for action. We supportyou from the initial concept through partner selection to successful implementation. The goal is always to ensure quality and global delivery capability in the long term.

Logistics Planning and Optimization

Logistics planning provides clarity on which materials, quantities, and capacities are needed, when, and where. KBC translates sales, demand, and inventory data into a robust planning model that visualizes material flows, transportation requirements, and logistical dependencies. This allows you to shorten lead times, reduce inventory, and lower costs in a targeted manner. Integrated Business Planning connects logistics with sales, procurement, and production.

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in logistics begins with a clear question: Which processes, decisions, and interfaces need to be improved, accelerated, and made more transparent? KBC develops appropriate roadmaps, defines requirements, and supports the selection and implementation of suitable systems—from TMS and IBP to SAP Digital Supply Chain. Where appropriate, we supplement this with automation solutions such as robotics, autonomous transport systems, and sensor technology.

Logistics and Transportation Consulting by the Numbers

Accelerating the TMS rollout
Improvement in OTIF (On Time, In Full)
Reducing Logistics Costs

This is how we view logistics management consulting

When there are issues in the supply chain, the cause is rarely limited to logistics alone. It is crucial to view purchasing, production, inventory, and transportation as an integrated whole—and that is precisely where our strength lies.

Stefan Kemény, Senior Partner at KBC

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Manage logistics in-house or outsource it (3PL/4PL)—which option makes more sense for us?

In-house operations or outsourcing—this question is one of the key strategic decisions in logistics. Collaborating with 3PL or 4PL partners can create flexibility, facilitate access to specialized expertise, and help manage services in a scalable manner. At the same time, it requires clear governance, robust interfaces, and professional management of partners.

In-house logistics offers a higher degree of control, direct manageability, and customization. However, this requires building the necessary capabilities, systems, and capacity in-house and maintaining them at a high level of performance over the long term—from planning and warehouse logistics to transportation management.

As a management consulting firm specializing in outsourcing, KBC helps you make this decision based on reliable data, clear objectives, and a realistic business case. Regardless of which model you choose, we’ll support you every step of the way—from the initial concept through to successful implementation in your day-to-day operations.

How can we balance sustainability requirements in logistics with speed and cost?

Fast, affordable, sustainable—in logistics, striking the right balance is a challenge. Those who choose air freight gain speed but pay more and have a greater environmental impact. Ocean freight is more affordable and sustainable, but takes longer. KBC helps you strategically manage this trade-off. In the BOLD KBC Center for Innovation , we take it a step further: Where can you reduce waste in the system—for example, by shifting production closer to the customer and thereby reducing transport volume from the ground up? You can reinvest the savings generated in this way specifically into more sustainable solutions.

Does KBC also use AI in its logistics consulting services?

Today, achieving transparency in complex supply chains requires the strategic use of modern technologies. As a forward-thinking logistics consulting firm, KBC uses data-driven analytical methods to accurately assess process durations, provide transparency into material flows, and identify weaknesses in logistics. This enables the company to identify and prioritize opportunities for optimization based on solid evidence.

AI solutions help identify patterns, deviations, and anomalies even in large volumes of logistics data. This creates greater transparency and reveals opportunities that are often overlooked in traditional analyses.

Does KBC, as a logistics consulting firm, operate only in Munich, throughout Germany, or internationally as well?

As an international logistics consulting firm, we provide support for complex projects worldwide: in Europe, the U.S., Africa, and Asia. Drawing on years of consulting experience, the KBC team understands regional markets and views them from a global perspective—ensuring that logistics processes across all borders are seamlessly integrated in a stable, cost-transparent, and sustainable manner.

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Stefan Kemény
Senior Partner

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Whether it’s logistics strategy, logistics planning, or digital transformation: In a brief discussion, we’ll determine which steps make sense and how KBC—an international boutique consulting firm based in Munich—can help you move forward. We’ll be in touch shortly.

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