NLA engineers supply chains, enabling clients to make measured trade-offs between vendors, transportation, labor, capital, inventory and service. Fine-tuned networks can save manufacturers and distributors as much as 50% in direct logistics expenses, reduce inventories, enhance accountability and improve service.

Successes Include

• Best practices study of B-C supply chain operations in e-commerce environment for the Nautilus-Bow Flex exercise equipment organizations, including home delivery operations.
• Re-engineered inbound logistics for the seriously disrupted supply chain of international shipments of flat screen televisions from Pacific Rim manufacturers inbound to US retailers by: gaining control of Value Added Tax disbursements within Asia; planning for rear area ocean shipment consolidation; and identifying domestic US flow distribution operations for products destined to major US retailers.
• Re-engineered the international air cargo export of individual soldier's gear for a US based defense contractor, and correspondingly reduced air cargo and ocean spend by 55%.