Pipeline is hard to see
Deals exist across inboxes, calendars and memory, so the forecast is an estimate of an estimate.
SME Revenue Operations
A starting scope rather than a fixed package. Logistics Revenue and Customer Operations maps to 10 business types, all of which need to generate better commercial enquiries, speed up quoting and improve customer visibility.
01Who it is for
Logistics company, Freight forwarder, Trucking fleet, Warehousing company, Last mile delivery company, Customs brokerage, Cold chain logistics provider, Vehicle rental company and related businesses.
Generate better commercial enquiries, speed up quoting and improve customer visibility.
02Challenges
Deals exist across inboxes, calendars and memory, so the forecast is an estimate of an estimate.
The people best placed to sell are the ones already committed to client work.
By the time a deal closes, the source that produced it has usually been overwritten.
Every document starts from the last similar one, which makes them slow and inconsistent.
03Scope
04Integrations
Categories this plan usually has to connect. Naming a category is not a claim of partnership, certification or reseller status.
05Implementation
A short discovery on what exists, what it costs to run and where work is currently lost. Ends with a written scope, not a proposal deck.
The operating model on paper: stages, ownership, field definitions and the measures that will judge it. Agreed before anything is built.
Build and configure 17 core deliverables, sequenced so the part losing work today is fixed first.
Integrate across transport management, warehouse management, CRM, tracking and accounting and messaging so the parts behave as one system.
Workflow maps, definitions, ownership and runbooks, written for the people who will run it rather than for the file.
Tracking and dashboards against quote volume, response time and win rate.
A review cadence with a short change list, judged against the same measures each time.
06Timeline
We do not publish a duration for Logistics Revenue and Customer Operations, because the honest answer depends entirely on the starting state. What is fixed is the order of work, which is set so something useful goes live early.
Ends with a written operating model and an agreed build order.
The part currently losing work: usually capture, records and ownership.
Core deliverables, configured and connected.
Tracking, dashboards and definitions.
Documentation, training and a named owner.
07Responsibilities
08Outputs
Concrete deliverables, not projected commercial results.
09Measures
10Commercial model
Scope varies with what already exists, so we do not publish a figure. Tell us what you have and you will get a scoped proposal with the assumptions written down.
11Industries
13Questions
Logistics company, Freight forwarder, Trucking fleet, Warehousing company, Last mile delivery company, Customs brokerage, Cold chain logistics provider, Vehicle rental company and related businesses. On this site it maps to 10 business types across 1 sectors, sme in size. If your business is close to that description the plan is a reasonable starting point, and if it is not we will say so.
No. It is a starting scope built from what this kind of business usually needs, and it is meant to be argued with. The core deliverables are the parts that rarely come out. The recommended and optional modules are decisions, not defaults.
We do not publish a price for Logistics Revenue and Customer Operations, because the scope genuinely varies with what already exists. Two businesses with the same plan can differ several times over in effort depending on the state of their data and platforms. Tell us what you have and you will get a scoped proposal with the assumptions written down.
Usually that is the better approach. The sequence is designed so the part that is losing work today goes first and each stage is useful on its own. Starting narrow and extending is almost always cheaper than a single large build.
Then it comes out of scope. Existing platforms that work are kept and connected rather than replaced. The assessment stage exists to find out which is which, and it regularly makes the project smaller.
Against quote volume, response time, win rate, lane demand and account value and source. Definitions are agreed and written down before the build starts, so the measure means the same thing in six months as it does on day one.
You get the documentation, the workflow map and the training, because you are meant to own it. Ongoing support is a separate arrangement: some clients take a maintenance and improvement retainer, others take the handover and run it themselves.
We will tell you which parts you need, which parts you already have, and which parts can wait.