Transportation and Logistics
As our global economy expands, destinations and points of interest in the world become easily accessible through various venues of transportation. Transportation of both people and goods has become one of the largest and most complex businesses in the world. Each segment of the industry is faced with challenges especially as a result of constantly increasing energy costs and lack of skilled human capital. Mastery of essential business disciplines demonstrates success in the industry. Sierra Vista Group’s practitioners provide guidance and solutions necessary for enhancing success in transportation and logistics companies.
Services
Sierra Vista Group offers integrated services from its Advisory and Technology service ares. We help transportation and logistic organizations meet their varying customer demands to provide high performance. Our consultants recognize that two key competencies place companies ahead of their competitors: standardized business processes and integrated IT. SVG offers these services to each segment of the industry: air, truck and rail operators, logistic and shipping companies and transportation leasing companies.
- Remote equipment tracking and management
- Freight reservation management
- Dynamic route optimization
- Business process redesign
- IT systems architecture, development and implementation
- Operational and financial effectiveness
- Strategy development and implementation
- Organizational alignment and transformation
Client Challenges
While the transportation and logistics industry is facing numerous challenges, SVG provides guidance and solutions to the following:
- Advancing green initiatives through the use of technology
- Leveraging technology to improve competitiveness
- Creating agile architecture capable of integrating merged/acquired entities
- Managing cost structures
- Maximizing human resources utilization
Business Value
Sierra Vista Group’s cross-functional consultants, in advisory and IT services, collaborate to provide our clients with innovative ideas and solutions that directly enhance business value. The following highlights demonstrate our experience and achievements with our clients.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by automating a national reservations system
- Working with group presidents of a decentralized company, restructured the organization: created a shared service center, increased system efficiencies, reduced overhead and increased profitability
- Developed enterprise wide cost/revenue alignment and service oriented operations
- Helped the CEO and executive management team align IT strategy and initiatives with business goals
- Engaged by board of directors to improved ROI achieved through asset management realignment