Background
Alba Logistics is a specialist business consultancy focusing on warehouse strategy, design and operation and was founded in 2005 by Patrick Daly. We are based in Dublin, Ireland and operate internationally from this base.
Since 2005, we have completed consultancy assignments in Ireland, United Kingdom, Malta, Puerto Rico and China. Our clients include companies in the manufacturing, distribution and logistics services sectors.
The realisation that many companies, both multinationals and local firms alike, were overlooking many fundamental tenets of good warehouse design and operation was the spark that ignited the desire to do something concrete to correct this.
In particular many businesses were overlooking the importance of the dimensions, weights and physical characteristics of their stock profile when planning and projecting warehouse facilities and equipment.
Additionally, many were developing their logistics facilities, to our way of thinking, the wrong way around. That is, they tended focus on the size, shape and location of the warehouse building itself rather than on what they needed to be able to do inside and around the building in order to support their business objectives.
In our opinion, you need to look at your business needs first, carry out the requisite hard data analysis and concept design options based on these needs and only then look at what building envelope can be put around the operation.
To do otherwise, invariable leads to building-in unnecessary constraints and compromises that stay with the operation for its entire lifetime.
We have developed particular expertise in the pharmaceutical and food sectors at both the manufacturing and distribution levels and we have extensive experience in high productivity distribution centre design for fast moving consumer goods in both conventional and automated order picking regimes.
Business Philosophy
We view our role as independent consultants and our purpose in business is to improve the condition of our clients through our work.
One of the unique features of our business is that we do not charge per diem rates based on arbitrary “deliverables” but rather we make a value proposition to our clients with clearly articulated objectives, measures of success and a quantification of value.
This gives us the flexibility to respond to changing circumstances and evolving knowledge to do what needs to be done to help clients reach their objectives and improve their condition.
“Alba Logistics have worked with PepsiCo at several manufacturing site locations around the world. Working closely with Alba, in each case we achieved warehouse solutions that are practical, implementable and guaranteed to achieve productivity. Furthermore, Alba deserve the credit for showing their flexibility to accommodate the changes and modifications to plans during the project work.”
Mukesh Ghai, General Manager, Concentrate Operations, PepsiCo Puerto Rico
Aims and Mission
It is our conviction that the warehouse is a crucially important strategic pillar within the wider supply chain function.
Therefore, our aims are to work with clients to develop and implement effective warehousing strategies that support their business objectives as well as enabling them to develop warehouse designs and operational procedures that are effective and productive within these strategies.
The desire to help clients avoid the basic errors in warehouse design and operation as a first step and then to support them to progress from there to plan and implement high productivity physical logistics operations that are innovative on the one hand while remaining both effective and productive on the other is the driving force and mission of Alba Logistics.
This mission is fulfilled through providing both consultancy services and training seminars.
