Whether planning a new facility or optimizing an existing site, you are continuously faced with complex investment decisions, often involving millions of dollars. Hiring a single firm to integrate logistics and construction has proven to be a smart organizational decision to ensure coordinated planning and construction processes. As a logistics expert, Miebach Consulting is a reliable partner in planning facilities and implementing them on time and under budget. With this combined approach the operational design of the facility has first priority, while the other design efforts are integrated seamlessly.

As an unbiased consultant, Miebach works independently of specific suppliers or manufacturers. Rather than sourcing an operations consultancy, an architect, and a build firm on your own, we work with you to create specification requirements for each work package and support the tendering and award process.  Our goal is to create a process that best conforms to your specific needs and on-site conditions.

Logistics and its contribution to corporate value creation is receiving increased attention in complex production networks and highly competitive market environments. Production logistics are an integral component of the overall supply chain and are synchronized with manufacturing.  Production logistics create value by meeting your manufacturing needs in a corresponding, flow-oriented way according to the pull principle. They ensure stable supply and delivery processes, optimized for lead time, and become increasingly important with decreasing batch sizes.

As a logistics and supply chain expert, Miebach Consulting can support you in developing a concept and introducing value-creating logistics processes, as well as in optimizing existing processes.  As these are often highly detailed complex project, it is important to trust in a partner who can not only develop your proper logistics strategy, but also design and implement the specific delivery concepts at the required locations.

Miebach Consulting plans, controls, and monitors projects of various size and complexity for clients – across all services and industries. From program management for multiple distribution centers for a Fast Moving Consumer Goods company to the Project Management Office (PMO) for the supply chain transformation of a global manufacturer: Our project managers define quantifiable and realistic goals and ensure that you achieve them by providing professional project management. Success is clearly identified from the achievement of goals for budget, timeline, quality, and operating costs.

Miebach project managers use standardized tools and proven methods to achieve results. To begin, we establish a project handbook of the significant requirements and rules for project organization and processes. We display the project status at all times and in a transparent manner we use tools for deadline tracking, cost controlling, and quality review. Prompt and comprehensive professional risk management ensures your project success.

Due to the level of complexity of systems, new challenges for supply chain management are constantly surfacing. Planning with simulations embodies an integrated approach for safeguarding decisions when creating highly dynamic systems and networks. Miebach has many years of experience and expertise with simulation, both in launching greenfield systems and in optimizing existing ones. We collaborate with you to develop specific solutions using modern simulation software. Our simulations are done in-house by logistics experts ensuring the results are implementable and protect the business case.

Miebach Consulting’s simulations clarify and illustrate existing or planned processes for your organization. By visualizing processes you are able to quickly identify bottlenecks and immediately introduce corrective measures. Flexible simulation models enable testing of various scenarios, then analyze the results in detail. The results of these tests provide reliable estimates of the expected system performance.

Across industries, companies are noticing a need to develop a long-term logistics masterplan to coincide with the manufacturing evolution of their facilities. Miebach Consulting designs lean material flows to support the production processes and a flexible and expandable infrastructure. Additionally, as the role of the storage of finished goods moves toward more fulfillment activity and away from simple plant buffer, it becomes even more critical to ensure the operational processes are well-defined.

The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define your future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize the return on the transformation of your site.

When planning changes to your logistics activities, it is essential to have a clear vision of how and what resources are needed to resume or continue operations with minimal impact to your customers, employees and operational results. Miebach Consulting creates a detailed implementation plan and prepares for challenges throughout the process. By this, we are able to provide active ramp-up support to your staff, maintain continuity in your service levels, and successfully manage the cost, timespan, and overall impact of the transition.

From concept to implementation, the complex matrix of details are critical not only for the operational changes, but for the impact on personnel as well as information flow. Analyzing inventory, operational schedules, IT systems, and timing allows for the development of a comprehensive implementation plan. This plan includes staffing assignments, adequate training and the coordination of support.

For decades, Miebach Consulting has focused on providing clients with efficient warehouses that are designed by an organization that ensures thought leadership in logistic processes and technologies. To this day, warehouse design remains a core service of our organization. For us, the design of the warehouse does not start with the layout or level of automation. Rather, we start by translating your future business strategy into tangible facility requirements, and then by looking at the strategies and processes to best fulfill these design requirements.

The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define the future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize your return on the transformation of the site.

Miebach Consulting is instrumental in helping define and select a suitable IT solution for warehouse management. We advise from strategy to go-live, independent of supplier. We work alongside the client to outline target requirements for processes, structures, systems, and IT service providers in specification sheets. Our experts are familiar with various warehouse management systems, from the largest brands to local or industry specialists. We work together to determine the most suitable software suppliers through a multi-stage request for quotations and a closely supported selection process.

By providing professional moderation for meetings with bidders and support in contractual negotiations, we ensure an effective IT selection process. We utilize workshops to ensure high quality specifications when creating specification sheets. We create the test plan, and accept responsibility for neutral coordination with all system partners. This allows us to support you in quality assurance and go-live.