Operations consultancy / Melbourne
Operations consultancy in Melbourne
Melbourne's operations are spread across two very different belts. The south east through Dandenong, Clayton and Keysborough is older stock with lower clearances and tighter yards. The west through Truganina, Laverton and Derrimut is newer, taller and built for volume. The right answer for a layout or a storage problem is rarely the same in both.
What is different about operating in Melbourne
- The west has height that the south east does not, so a storage review in Truganina usually finds vertical capacity while the same review in Clayton finds slotting.
- Melbourne runs more interstate linehaul out of a single metro than anywhere else, which makes cost to serve work here turn on lane mix rather than drop size.
- Geelong and the regional corridors pull delivery costs well above the metro average, and that difference is almost never priced into a national customer rate.
- Older south east sites often have racking installed for a pallet profile the business stopped using years ago.
Where we work from
Prestons, with South Dandenong as the Melbourne working point. South Dandenong reaches Clayton, Keysborough, Braeside and the Monash corridor quickly, and Truganina, Laverton and Geelong inside a working morning.
Start without spending anything
The operations health check is twenty four questions across six areas, takes ten minutes, needs no email and gives you a score on the page. It will not diagnose the operation, but it will tell you which of the six areas to look at first, which is usually not the one you came in worried about.
After that, a twenty minute call at no charge, where you get told what we would check first and whether this is a small fix or a big one. If you do not need a consultant you will be told that too.
Every service, available in Melbourne
- Operational review and health check
- Route optimisation
- Cost to serve analysis
- DIFOT review and improvement
- Perfect order mapping
- Warehouse relocation and consolidation
- Warehouse layout and configuration
- Racking and storage planning
- Storage review and solutions
- Process mapping and integrations
- Operational restructuring
- Focused problem solving
- Procurement and supplier review
- Pallet, waste, recovery and consumables review
- Systems, automation and practical AI
- Ongoing operational support
Questions
Do you come to our site in Melbourne?
Yes. The full day operational review is on site, and scoped projects are run on site wherever the work needs it. South Dandenong reaches Clayton, Keysborough, Braeside and the Monash corridor quickly, and Truganina, Laverton and Geelong inside a working morning.
What does a review cost in Melbourne?
The same as anywhere: $7,500 plus GST for the full day review including the written report, and fixed price reviews from $5,900 plus GST. There is no travel loading inside the metro area.
Can we start without committing to a site visit?
Yes. The online health check takes ten minutes, costs nothing and needs no email. The $490 Operational Health Check Report is a desk based read if you want a consultant on it before anyone travels.
Do you work outside Melbourne?
Yes, Australia wide and New Zealand. Regional and interstate work is quoted with travel shown as its own line rather than folded into the fee.
360 also supplies and collects pallets and runs palletised transport, so a finding about pallets or freight can be acted on rather than handed to someone else. Where that happens we disclose it in the report so you can compare us against the market.
Benchmarking yourself? We published what a good DIFOT actually is. Want the price before you ask? See what a review costs. Not sure where to start? Take the ten minute health check.