Supply Chain Network Optimization Consulting
Better freight, warehouse, and distribution decisions start with understanding the full network.
Sherpa helps shippers evaluate whether their freight flows, warehouse locations, routing decisions, and distribution footprint still match the needs of the business.
As companies grow, networks often become expensive, inefficient, or misaligned with customer demand. Sherpa brings senior operator experience and practical analysis to identify where cost, service, and network design can be improved.
From import routing and inland transportation to center of gravity analysis and warehouse location strategy, Sherpa helps turn supply chain data into clear, actionable decisions.
Your network may be costing more than you think.
Freight rates are only one part of the cost equation.
The larger opportunity often sits across the full network: where freight enters the country, how it moves inland, where inventory is stored, and which customers are served from each location.
Sherpa helps companies evaluate these tradeoffs clearly — balancing transportation cost, warehouse expense, labor assumptions, inventory timing, service expectations, and operational complexity.
A better network decision can do more than reduce shipment cost. It can change the cost structure of the business.
Network optimization support built around real operating decisions.
Sherpa’s network optimization work is designed for companies that need more than a theoretical model. The goal is to help leadership understand the tradeoffs, economics, and operational implications behind major supply chain decisions.
Freight Flow & Routing Analysis
Understand where freight moves today, what it costs, and whether current port, rail, trucking, or routing decisions are creating avoidable expense or service friction.
Center of Gravity & Demand Modeling
Evaluate customer demand points, shipment volumes, and transportation distances to identify stronger distribution location options.
Distribution Center & CFS Strategy
Compare current and future warehouse, DC, or CFS locations based on freight cost, customer reach, lease expense, labor assumptions, and network flexibility.
Transportation Cost & Executive Business Case
Build practical current-state and future-state cost comparisons that leadership can understand, challenge, and act on.
Better Supply Chain Network Design Creates Better Business Outcomes
Sherpa helps companies connect transportation, warehousing, inventory, service, and growth strategy into clear network decisions leadership can act on.
Freight cost reduction often starts with network design.
Lower freight rates can help, but larger savings often come from improving the structure of the supply chain network.
Sherpa helps shippers identify avoidable miles, inefficient routing, excess handoffs, accessorial costs, and service friction across the transportation and distribution network.
Warehouse location strategy should be modeled against total cost.
Adding or relocating a distribution center can reduce transportation cost, improve delivery speed, and support future growth.
But warehouse decisions also affect lease expense, labor, inventory, service levels, and operating complexity. Sherpa helps compare the full cost picture before decisions are made.
Center of gravity analysis helps align your network with customer demand.
Customer locations, order patterns, suppliers, and service expectations change over time.
When the distribution network does not evolve with demand, companies can quietly overpay for freight and underperform on service.
Better network design gives leadership a clearer growth path.
Supply chain network optimization supports pricing, service promises, inventory planning, expansion strategy, and executive decision-making.
Sherpa turns freight data, warehouse assumptions, and distribution scenarios into practical recommendations leadership can act on.
Sherpa turns network complexity into practical recommendations that reduce cost, improve service,
and support confident leadership decisions.