Transport Consultancy

Creating efficient, sustainable and reliable transport operations.

Design

Implementation

Optimisation

Transport Solution Design

Let ASCALi help you to design your optimal transport solution. We have all the tools, skills and experience you need to ensure that you plan out the right solution with the right mix of vehicles and service providers to create an efficient, cost effective and environmentally sustainable solution.

Carrier and in-house fleet mix definition

Making sure your costs are minimised

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Transport & delivery operations are renowned for being difficult to manage costs. Many real-world factors can lead to fluctuating costs… Congestion, Fuel Costs, Driver availability etc.

This is all true, and these factors will apply whether you are efficient of inefficient in your core operations.

We can help you identify whether your underlying transport costs are right for your type of fulfilment service.

Whether you run a fleet of articulated LGVs or smaller sprinter vans and transits, we can help you understand where there is scope to improve your efficiency. We can also advise on how best to minimise the impact of ‘real world’ pressures too.

Transport routing and scheduling

Ensuring your delivery routes are efficient and sustainable

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Getting a new service solution off the ground can take a considerable amount of planning to ensure that you meet the targets you set for yourself and your customers.

Our team can help you design the ideal delivery schedule to enable you to make service promises and commitments that can be relied upon.

We work to understand your geographical coverage and service requirements and build a flexible but cost-effective transport schedule for you to follow to enable you to achieve your goals.

Electric transport solution design

Driving greener and more cost effective operations

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Moving your fleet from diesel to electric is one of the key objectives of any business when looking at its future supply chain operations. Our expert team can help you assess when the best point will be for you to make that jump.

With the level of governmental push for ‘greenification’ ever increasing, there will come a time for any business where the cost to change will be outweighed by the cost to not change.

Our transport fleet professionals can plan out the best approach that works for your business. We can align this to your overall fleet strategy and help you make a clear plan of how and when you need to invest to get your fleet in shape for post-diesel operations.

Transport Implementation

Our team of experienced operational specialists have implemented hundreds of transport solutions. We can help you accelerate your programme by negotiating with your vendors, managing your timelines, supporting your recruitment process, and helping with vehicle management and compliance to get your solution up and running quickly and on budget.

Carrier selection and evaluation support

Seeking the right partner to match your brand values

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The people that deliver your product are often the real life faces of your business when they get to your customer’s premises.

Selecting the right carriers and logistics partners is Crucial to ensuring that your brand value is maintained and that the service you deliver is executed in the right way.

Our team can help you select and evaluate the right mix of carriers who will deliver your product in the way you want it to be delivered.

Fleet procurement & migration

Getting wheels on the ground ready to roll

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We can help you through the myriad of fleet procurement solutions available, from leasing to purchase to long-term hire.

Our team have experienced many fleet transitions and can help you find the right partners and vehicles to give you the fleet that is right for your business.

When you have defined the right fleet, we can help you manage the migration, removing vehicles from fleet when no longer required, bringing the new vehicles in at the right place and time to continue your service.

TMS & Fleet Management systems implementation

Helping you plan deliver and execute great transport operations

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We can help you scope and implement the right transport, fleet or routing and scheduling system into your business.

Planning for migration from an older system or perhaps from no system at all, requires careful planning, and an eye for detail.

Our team has a wealth of experience in delivering such implementations…we are happy to take the lead, or to help in the background in your plans and preparations with your selected solution vendors.

Transport Optimisation

ASCALi can accelerate your transport operations performance and help you make big cost savings in your logistics operations. Our team can look at how you plan and execute your transport activity to identify where you might be leaking cost, delaying your deliveries or impacting your environmental credentials.

Fleet and carrier mix optimisation

Putting the right fleet in place to service your needs

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Getting the right fleet mix can be a really tricky challenge for operators to answer.

Big trucks can offer the greatest efficiency, but only if your customer order profile and goods movements can justify it.

Small vehicle fleets can be the most nimble and easiest to resource, but offer significantly diminishing value as load size and distance increase.

Our Expert transport consultants can help you identify what fleet mix works for you, for now and in future.

We will ask if third party operations may provide you greater flexibility and cost control. If they do we can help you navigate that path as well.

Planning and Scheduling

Efficient routing and scheduling means minimised waste. Maximised efficiency. Less CO2…

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Our expert transport planners can help you develop and maintain highly efficient transport schedules for your transport operations. We can help you reduce miles, driver hours and fuel usage by producing highly cost effective routes for your teams to follow.

We can carry out a one-time comparison study to see how you compare to where you should be, or work with you to produce periodic re-schedules to help keep you on track.

If you need a more dynamic solution, we can help you navigate the steps to select and implement your own transport planning solution.

Fleet and operations compliance
and legality

Ensuring your fleet and operations are safe and legal

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The regulatory framework around goods vehicles and drivers is one of the most stringent of any sector in our economy.

Our compliance experts can help you safeguard your reputation by checking that you are doing all the right things to meet and stay ahead of regulations.

From Drivers hours to tacho review processes to vehicle servicing and MOT cycles, we can review your processes and preserve your good repute and your ‘O’ Licence.

Often organisations are surprised by the things that can have a negative impact on compliance, and we can help you with that too.

As an added benefit, when reviewing your compliance, if we spot room for efficiency gains, we’ll highlight that to you as well.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you only operate in the UK?
We are based in the UK, but we operate internationally. Our team has delivered many supply chain, logistics, warehousing and transport initiatives across the globe. We can help UK businesses optimise their international supply chains, as well as help international businesses optimise their activities within the UK.
We are a small company. Can you help us streamline our supply chain?
Yes, we can provide our industry-leading expertise to companies, large and small. We can tailor operational solution reviews that can meet almost any scale of operation’s budget. Our engagements can be from as little as two days or more, depending on the scale of your operation.
Where are you based?

Our head office is in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Our consulting team is spread far and wide throughout the UK. We are able to support our clients no matter where they operate, either at home or abroad.

Are you expert in transport operations?
Yes, our team is highly experienced in both managing and developing transport solutions to meet customer needs across a range of sectors and markets. Our team has worked across Europe in delivering optimal transport solutions.
Can you help us reduce transport costs?
Yes, we can apply a range of operational and modelled evaluation techniques to help identify how to reduce your transport costs as well as how to deliver those changes. Our team have expertise in all the latest transport modelling and management software packages and we will use those to help you design and define the right solution.
Can you help us plan more effective delivery routes?
Yes, we can evaluate your current delivery routes and identify how you can make them more efficient and sustainable for your business. We use the latest transport modelling software aligned with our operational expertise to ensure that we produce robust results that are deliverable on the ground for your organisation.
Can you help us identify and implement the right transport planning solution?
Yes, we have conducted projects like this with a range of clients and have helped them select the right systems and processes to meet their specific business needs. We can apply this process across any type of business and sector manufacturing, retail bulk or e-commerce.
Can you help us set up central planning?
Yes, we have developed some of the most cost-effective central transport planning and control tower solutions delivered in the UK. We have worked with some of the biggest delivery companies in establishing the optimal system and people processes to fully access all the benefits of centralised planning across multi-site operations.
Can you help develop sustainable, greener transport solutions?

Yes, we can help clients develop environmentally efficient transport operations. We can help you identify ways to cut your carbon footprint and keep a tight rein on the environmental impact of your business.

How long have you been delivering consulting solutions for your clients?
Our team have been delivering outstanding consulting solutions since 2002. In that time we can demonstrate that we have delivered over 500 client projects across 250+ clients in 24 countries.
What sectors do you work in?
We work in all business sectors that involve moving product. From bulk shipments right the way down to the smallest parcel operations. We can help with transport, warehousing logistics and supply chain solutions in any manufacturing, retail distributor or e-commerce business.
Do you come to our site or do you work purely remotely?
Where it is the right thing for your project for us to come to your operations and offices, we will do that. We will work remotely when this is the best way to achieve the best value for you in delivering our work. We will always try and work in the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way, and where remote working and video conferencing is the right thing for specific phases of our project work we will do that. This also helps us minimise travel costs as well as our carbon footprint.
Can you help us cut our delivery costs?
Yes, whether you are delivering using your own fleet, transport contractors, third-party operators or courier companies, we can help you identify how to cut your customer delivery costs. Our expert team of consultants are highly experienced in developing optimal delivery cost models for our clients that drive continued benefit into their supply chain solutions.
Can you help us with primary transport?
Yes, we can help you with all the different elements of your transport operation from supplier collections, raw material distribution, and finished goods delivery. Our team is expert at working in all these fields and we are confident we could help you deliver the right solution for your business. First mile, middle mile, final mile…we understand the challenges of each and can help you streamline your business.
Can you help us cut our courier costs?
We work with a range of B-2-C and B-2-B businesses in developing the best mix of carrier and courier cost bases. We can help you identify how best to optimise your distribution costs without impacting customer service expectations.
Do you sell transport planning and management software?

No, we are not a systems vendor, we specifically do not tie ourselves to any vendor or solution to enable us to give precisely the best advice to our clients without fear of bias. That enables us to work fairly for you on your behalf to develop the right planning and control solutions for your business.

Can you help us identify the right delivery fleet for our needs?
Yes, we have a range of methodologies to help you identify the right mix of fleet to ensure you can meet your customer expectations in the least cost way. We can help you identify the right way to buy or lease your fleet to create the maximum possible flexibility within your operating solution.
Do you manage transport outsourcing?
Yes, our team of outsourcing experts can help you to achieve the right result from your outsourcing process. We can help you identify the best mix of solution vendors to include within your supplier evaluations and help you negotiate and deliver the best deal to meet your company’s needs. We can also help you evaluate your options to deliver your solution yourself, and potentially save cost and achieve greater control of your transport and supply chain costs.
Can you help us electrify our delivery fleet?
Yes, we can help you identify how best to use electrification and other environmentally sustainable vehicle solutions to help you cut your carbon emissions and develop a sustainable transport solution.

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