Flagship study
Warehouse fulfilment visibility study
A three-week engagement that traces pick, pack, and carrier handoff on the floor, then returns wall charts and a briefing your shift leads can actually stand in front of.
Who it is for
Regional and national distributors who run their own depot or a contracted warehouse in the United Kingdom, keep exception notes on paper or in a shared sheet, and still disagree about whether the day is lost at inbound, in the pick aisle, or at the carrier bay. If you are looking for warehouse software, this study will not supply it.
What you receive
Three weeks after the first walk-through, the warehouse office holds a printed exception board, a pick-face plan with a handful of call-outs, a cut-off sketch for the next peak you have already named, and a spoken briefing with shift leads present. Amelia writes the boards so they can be read from two metres. Rowan stays for questions on the floor.
Included
- One inbound observation window across receipt mornings you nominate
- One full pick-path walk with a typical wholesale order, not a tidy demonstration order
- A sketch of last-order, last-pick, and last-collection for one named peak week
- One printed exception board from a week of your late lines, shorts, and missed collections
- A briefing in the depot office, not a remote presentation
Excluded
- Installation or configuration of warehouse management or carrier products
- Negotiation with parcel firms or hauliers
- Labour rostering or disciplinary advice
- Travel beyond the agreed depot without a separate note
Who does the work
Rowan Ellis leads the site days. Amelia Khatri draws the boards and the cut-off sheet. Tomos Price joins when inbound or carrier handoff is the loudest complaint. The Pubil office is the correspondence address; the work happens at your dock.
How the three weeks run
- Week one: a half-day walk-through to agree which receipts, pick routes, and collections we will time, plus a list of what you should already have on paper.
- Week two: observation days on the floor. We do not stop a shift; we walk beside it.
- Week three: boards printed, briefing booked, corrections taken from the people who actually pick and despatch.
Where and how
On-site at your depot in the United Kingdom, with desk drawing from Pubil between visits. We work in English with your existing location labels, supplier names, and carrier codes. High-vis and safety shoes are ours to bring; site induction is yours to provide.
What to prepare
Last month’s late inbound list if you keep one, a typical order sheet, published carrier collection times for the next peak, and a named host who can walk us past the gate. If those papers do not exist, say so; we will still walk, and the first board will be thinner.
Constraints
We will not photograph faces or vehicle registrations. We will not share another client’s board. Night-shift observation is only booked when the host is present. If a second depot is in scope, that is a second study.
Price basis
From £4,800 for a single depot of ordinary wholesale scale. A second building, a bonded area, or a chilled house with separate induction adds a written supplement after the first walk-through. Travel from Pubil is included for mainland Great Britain; Northern Ireland and offshore islands are quoted before we travel.
Next step
Write with the depot town, the pause you already suspect, and a window of two weeks when a walk-through is possible. We reply within two working days.