Cutting both ways
13 September 2012
They're low, but not low enough it seems. As companies look for ways to pare back logistics costs even further, Marcia MacLeod talks to them about their methods and the ultimate effect on service quality
Logistics costs are coming down, despite everybody’s favourite moan about the price of warehousing, transport and ancillary services. AT Kearney’s latest five-yearly research will show that logistics costs are now only about 6 per cent of sales. A decade ago, it was 10 per cent or more. According to Bruce Cox, chairman of the Warehousing and Materials Handling...