05 — Logistics, Warehousing & Distribution

Business Case & Feasibility Study

Make the right investment the first time. We validate the premises, define the target processes, model the alternatives and quantify returns, risks and readiness.

Use it to compare technologies, set scope and phasing, and put a decision in front of your board that stands up to scrutiny.

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Your challenges

What's holding you back right now?

  • Vendor quotes conflict and none of them are truly comparable.
  • The trade-off between total cost and service level has never been made explicit.
  • Constraints outside the DC walls — IT, construction, fire safety — surface too late.
  • There are no risk scenarios and no fallback plan if assumptions break.
  • The investment case rests on averages rather than on your actual variability.
When it matters

You'll benefit when you are…

  • Choosing between shuttle systems, AS/RS and AMRs
  • Weighing a greenfield build against retrofitting what you have
  • Seeking financing or board approval for a capital project
  • Coordinating a decision across IT, safety, construction and operations
  • Exploring automation seriously for the first time
Outcomes

What we deliver

An agreed premise pack

Current state, data and constraints documented and signed off before anyone designs anything.

Genuinely comparable variants

Technology, layout, controls and staffing modelled on the same basis, so the comparison means something.

A board-ready business case

ROI, risks, timeline and KPIs in the language your finance function uses.

Tender-ready specifications

Functional specs and a vendor shortlist you can go to market with immediately.

Decide with confidence rather than hope — before the capital is committed.

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What makes us different

Augment Cloud experts at your service

  • Objective and supplier-independent: our fee does not depend on which technology wins.
  • A cross-functional view that includes IT, safety and maintenance from day one.
  • Simulation used to verify the risks and benefits rather than assert them.
  • Experience across retail, FMCG and manufacturing capital projects.

Feasibility quantified, not estimated

Feasibility work here runs on your real data and dynamic modelling rather than on averages. Scenario analysis exposes the sensitivities that matter — demand swings, outage modes, labour availability — so you know which assumptions the case actually depends on.

That is usually the difference between a project that lands on budget and one that discovers its constraints during commissioning.

Case studies

Decisions that held up

AutoStore feasibility for Schneider Electric

Feasibility study validated AutoStore for the CEE DC and quantified a capacity uplift up to 300%.

+300% capacity uplift quantified Show full case study →

Logistics strategy for Bonavita

10-year logistics strategy validated. Export outsourcing recommended over new construction.

10-year strategy · Lower long-term risk Show full case study →

Logistics masterplan for AL INVEST Břidličná

Plant-wide logistics concept with a central dispatch warehouse — flows consolidated and floor space released for growth.

Shared roadmap · Clear investment case Show full case study →

Data-driven warehouse layout for dm drogerie markt

A new warehouse in Ostředek with significant savings in warehouse labour intensity and a future-ready concept.

Lower labor cost · Future-proof concept Show full case study →

Spare-parts inventory for ORLEN Unipetrol

Inventory value cut by 25% while safeguarding the availability of mission-critical spare parts.

−25% inventory value · 100% critical availability Show full case study →

Operational improvements with DHL

Process and systems optimisation across logistics operations — visibility, standardisation and capacity planning.

Visibility · Capacity planning Show full case study →
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Get a defendable answer before you commit capital

Send us the decision you are facing and the constraints around it. We will tell you what a feasibility study would need to cover — and what it would likely conclude.

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