Practical Distribution Planning (PDP) provides a niche market service for customers who make use of own or outsourced distribution facilities to create new benchmark standards, improve service, reduce cost and ensure that the time and place component of their marketing mix is optimised whilst leaving the solutions within the company and the personnel involved, trained to a higher level.

The expertise provided by PDP covers the analysis, training and implementation of solutions, with the savings and improvements generated belonging to the company.

Practical Distribution Planning (PDP) are logistics management specialists. They provide a specialised service for customers in the distribution industry by analysing their logistics processes and procedures, and then advising on service improvement, benchmarking and cost reduction.

By improving the distribution process in organisations, it ensures that the vehicles for distribution are at the right place at the right time. Companies who have used PDP’s services have been able to enjoy huge savings and have in place an improved distribution structure that they can continue to work from.

Not only does PDP leave the organisation with a set of solutions on how to manage their distribution process, they also train the personnel involved to understand the distribution procedure, and how their role fits into the bigger picture. Clients have found that once their staff have been on PDP’s training program, the team dynamic shifts. Staff begin to operate at a more professional level, work more cohesively and as a result, minimise the amount of unnecessary errors saving both time and money and taking ownership of and pride in the new benchmark standards.