Transforming Supply Chains
Empowering Growth
Running a supply chain can be complex, with delays, hidden costs, and inefficiencies that slow growth and frustrate your team. That’s where Middlebank Consulting Group comes in. We partner with business owners, executives, and CEOs to make supply chains agile, efficient, and scalable. Whether you’re an e-commerce brand striving to improve your order-to-delivery experience, a manufacturer seeking cost control, or an academic institution developing future supply chain leaders, our services are structured to meet your unique goals.
Every engagement begins with a Free Initial Supply Chain Assessment, giving you a clear view of your current performance, key inefficiencies, and potential cost-saving opportunities. From there, we tailor a transformation plan to elevate your business operations.
OUR SERVICES
Supply Chain Transformation & Cost Optimization
For: Established brands, B2B businesses, and executives seeking more efficient cost-effective operations.
We help uncover hidden costs, redesign inefficient networks, and implement practical improvements that immediately impact profitability and performance. This project-based service provides an end-to-end evaluation of your logistics and supply chain operations to create a leaner, smarter, and more resilient business model.
Our Approach Includes:
- Comprehensive network and cost assessment (free initial evaluation included)
- Identification of process bottlenecks and inefficiencies
- Strategic roadmap to achieve lower operating costs
- Implementation support to transform your logistics into a profit center
Result: A supply chain that performs better, costs less, and delivers a superior customer experience.
Comprehensive Supply Chain Management (Managed Logistics Partnership / 4PL)
For: High-growth e-commerce and D2C brands, Amazon sellers, and consumer goods companies.
Let us take care of your logistics and supply chain so you can focus on growing your business. As your long-term partner, we oversee planning, procurement, fulfillment, and logistics orchestration to ensure that every customer receives their order quickly and reliably.
What You Get:
- Complete logistics and supply chain outsourcing
- Ongoing monitoring of costs, service levels, and performance metrics
- Optimized warehouse and fulfillment design
- Seamless coordination between suppliers, carriers, and fulfillment partners
Result: Peace of mind, with operations running efficiently in the background so you can focus on sales, marketing, and innovation.
Warehousing, Fulfillment & Operations Solutions
For: Businesses looking to improve storage, inventory, and distribution efficiency.
We design and optimize warehouse operations to support scalability, reduce waste, and enhance delivery performance.
Our Services Include:
- Warehouse layout and operational design
- Freight evaluation and optimization
- Inventory planning and optimization strategies
- Performance audits for continuous improvement
Result: Faster fulfillment, lower logistics costs, and a better customer delivery experience.
Procurement and Outsourcing Advisory
For: Companies exploring 3PL partnerships or strategic outsourcing.
Finding the right vendors and logistics partners is crucial. We guide you through the process of evaluating, selecting, and managing vendors and third-party providers while ensuring you maintain control and visibility.
We Help You With:
- Evaluate and select 3PL and 4PL providers
- Design procurement policies and procedures
- Develop outsourcing strategies
- Manage ongoing vendor performance
Result: A reliable partner ecosystem that strengthens service delivery and supports scalable growth.
Strategic Supply Chain Solutions
For: Business leaders seeking long-term strategic improvement.
We work closely with your leadership team to align your supply chain with broader business goals, turning it into a source of competitive advantage.
What We Do:
- Develop value chain and network strategies
- Business process re-engineering and change management
- Conduct supply chain performance evaluations and audit
- Optimize processes using technology and data-driven insights
Result: A strategically aligned, data-driven, and customer-centric supply chain.
Franchise Development Services
For: Entrepreneurs and brand owners expanding through franchising.
Our Supply Chain Consultants expertly coordinate every aspect of your franchise business, from acquisition to disposal.
We build strong operational foundations for franchise growth, ensuring smooth coordination between franchisors, franchisees, and supply chain partners.
How We Help:
- Establish Franchise Disclosure documentation, Contract frameworks, Operations Manuals and support systems
- Design and set up franchise supply chains
- Create operational models for scalability
- Implement performance systems to manage franchise networks
Result: A franchise system built for consistent growth, operational reliability, and long-term profitability.
Education, Training & Advisory for Academia
For: Universities, business schools, and professional training institutions.
Our tertiary education services equip the next generation of supply chain professionals with practical, strategic, and industry-relevant skills.
These services leverage 25 years of expertise, fostering adept problem solvers in supply chain management. Tailored for students and professionals, our programs empower with practical skills and best practices in undergraduate, postgraduate and masters levels.
How We Help:
- Develop curricula for undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programs
- Deliver guest lectures, seminars, and workshops by industry experts
- Create applied learning modules and case-based education
- ‘In-house management development’ tailored short courses
Result: A future-ready learning environment that bridges the gap between theory and industry practice.
Example Project Results
Industry: Packaging
Project Description: Warehouse layout optimization including managing implementation of required changes to deliver identified improvements.
Key Results:
Relayed and optimized warehouse that stored 65,000 pallets. This facility receives and dispatches 2,000 pallets per day. We achieved a 22.5% reduction in pallet distance travel, translating to a reduction in MHE & staffing requirements.
Industry: Cosmetics
Project Description: Freight tender & review of packaging sizes.
Key Results:
17.4% reduction in freight spend – the majority of the saving resulted through introduction of 1 more ‘standard’ parcel size that optimised weight / cube & courier rates.
Industry: Stationery
Project Description: Inventory management review including assessment of structure & process.
Key Results:
Introduced S&OP process, forecasting, inventory classifications, performance measurement & KPI’s to enable a 40% reduction of inventory.
Industry: FMCG
Project Description: Route to market cost to serve analysis
Key Results:
Identified the real cost to serve for each product when distributed via a direct to store model versus supply into centralized warehousing enabling the client to more appropriately negotiate terms of trade with key customers.
Industry: Beverage
Project Description: SAP Material Master maintenance – establishing business rules & structure for creating product hierarchy & material global data – housekeeping to bring existing 24,000 materials & hierarchy keys in line & then centrally controlling setup on an on-going basis.
Key Results:
Business process, business reporting & control improvement.
Industry: Automotive
Project Description: Layout design, tendering for fit-out & project managing relocation of a 40,000 SKU National Parts warehouse for client.
Key Results:
Successful relocation of 40,000 SKU DC to new facility with no down-time on order fulfillment.
Let’s work together to transform your business
We help you identify a future-oriented business model and design your value proposition