When your supply chain presents uncertainty, turn to LIDD to develop actionable plans. Control your inventory, enter new channels, optimize your network, and make wise capital investments.
Strengthen your supply chain to excel against the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Our team of supply chain consultants optimizes your existing operations and prepare you for future disruption. Whether you’re running out of space, operating inefficiently, or struggling with costs, we can help you reconfigure or automate your location to drive efficiencies or identify the need to build a new location.
Our work is data-driven and business-centric. LIDD’s analysts, engineers, designers, and industry experts partner with you to solve targeted challenges and achieve broad transformation.
As your business grows, existing processes come under strain. Sometimes you don’t know where to start. We turn business plans into comprehensive supply chain roadmaps: transforming physical infrastructure, organizational processes, and technology. We can spell it out in black & white – is a new building justified? What software system should you implement first? Is automation appropriate for your operation? We speak your language.
Where should your DCs be located? Who should operate them? Our experts optimize your network infrastructure for cost, service-level, and resiliency. Traditional network design is focused on transportation, however about 50% of overall costs take place within the warehouse. LIDD applies proprietary tools to consider the full picture, delivering capital-justified network recommendations.
Should I use a 3PL or build a new facility? It’s complicated. Our consultants present the data-driven insights and projections you need to make the best decisions for your business.
Leverage experienced professionals to select the best 3PL for you. From a foundation of detailed data analysis, we manage a structured process from RFP development, to evaluation, to implementation.
Develop integrated business management processes like S&OP with the guidance of an expert. Gain insight into key supply chain drivers and exercise control throughout the supply chain.
A rapidly growing intimate care brand in the beauty industry, valued at $15MM, recognized the necessity of enhancing their distribution network approach to accommodate their rapid expansion and omni-channel growth.
A South Korean foodservice distributor, delivering dry, fresh, and frozen goods to restaurants nationwide, partnered with LIDD to tackle storage and efficiency challenges.
Business is booming and the warehouse is bustling with activity. For some reason, however, productivity levels are well short of targets.
A D2C hemp producer/CBD products manufacturer needs a solution to go live in just 14 weeks to enable a new B2B sales channel and support their increasingly complex operation.
A Toronto based organic grocer operating four grocery stores and a distribution centre.
An American food manufacturer was struggling to scale its business because of unintegrated technologies.
Our experts have extensive supply chain experience. We are analysts, designers, and engineers connected by our shared commitment to your success.
President
Charles has been working as a supply chain consultant since 1998. He has worked with clients at all levels of the supply chain, from manufacturers to retailers, in a wide array of industries including food, pharmaceuticals, garments and construction materials. He has extensive experience in supply chain strategy, technology, facility design & implementation and operations. Charles holds a bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering from McGill University in Montreal.
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Jennifer Hall is a Partner at LIDD and leads its Consulting Practice. With over a decade of experience advising boards and executives, she leads large-scale supply chain transformation initiatives involving multimillion-dollar investment decisions. Jennifer began her career designing warehouses and has since guided clients through network expansions, market entry strategies, and the selection and implementation of new technologies and automation. She has executed numerous operational and digital transformations, with a strong focus on the food & beverage, and consumer goods sectors. Her achievements include redesigning distribution networks for multinational CPG companies, pioneering a new sales channel for a leading grocery chain, and playing a key role in establishing LIDD’s international presence. Jennifer holds a degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University.
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Emilio Colangelo is a Partner based in LIDD’s Montreal office and a leader in LIDD’s supply chain planning practice. He is responsible for developing integrated supply chain strategies, managing client relationships, and overseeing the work of LIDD employees dedicated to configuration, implementation, and integration of complex planning tools. Since joining LIDD in 2016, Emilio has worked with leading US & Canadian companies in the Food & Beverage, eCommerce, Publishing, Manufacturing and 3PL Logistics industries. His consulting experience spans a wide range of mandates including physical infrastructure design, supply chain software selection & implementation, and S&OP process design. Emilio’s attention to detail and his multi-practice consulting background have repeatedly helped clients achieve meaningful operations transformations. His ability to build close relationships within client organizations from executive leadership to front-line management has been proven at multinationals and quickly growing start-ups. As a director, Emilio leverages his experience to engineer processes and develop fine-tuned NetSuite solutions to align clients’ operations with their vision. Emilio holds a B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Concordia University. In addition to his experience at LIDD, Emilio worked at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and for a Big4 consulting firm.
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LIDD’s network studies provide a clear, data-driven view of how your network, facilities, and systems actually operate. We analyze material flows, inventory policies, transportation patterns, labor productivity, and overall network structure. Our teams visit sites, interview stakeholders, and review system data to understand where bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or risks exist.
The result is a comprehensive roadmap that highlights network improvement opportunities, and identifies the operational, technical, and financial levers available to improve performance. Many clients follow the network study with work in digital transformation or move into targeted facility improvements through distribution center design.
An assessment becomes actionable when insights are translated into a phased, realistic roadmap. After diagnosing issues, we model alternatives, quantify impacts, and prioritize initiatives based on ROI, risk, and organizational readiness. Each recommendation includes clear owners, timelines, and operational requirements.
The roadmap may include process changes, system enhancements, network redesign, or automation opportunities. When needed, we integrate this plan with broader technology work through supply chain technology or with long-term facility initiatives supported by distribution center design.
Our teams model how your supply chain will perform under different growth, demand, or risk scenarios. Through dedicated operations audits & roadmaps, we examine capacity limits, service requirements, labor constraints, supplier risk, and inventory policies to determine where the network may break under pressure.
From there, we build strategies that support scalable, resilient operations—whether that means redesigning your network, strengthening planning capabilities, or modernizing critical systems. Many companies pair this work with our Digital Transformation practice or explore automation pathways through logistics automation to boost throughput and reliability.
We use a combination of diagnostic frameworks, data analytics, simulation tools, and network optimization models to understand how your supply chain performs today—and how to improve it. This includes SKU profiling, capacity modeling, slotting analyses, transportation optimization, and labor productivity studies using proprietary algorithms built in Altair, Anylogic and Anylogostics.
Our teams also leverage system data from ERP, WMS, and production systems to validate findings and uncover gaps between planned and actual performance. When needed, we connect insights to technology modernization initiatives through supply chain technology or to future facility design work via distribution center design.
Operational improvements mean little if they don’t drive real business value. That’s why every recommendation includes a financial analysis supported by cost modeling, scenario evaluation, and expected ROI or payback. We quantify the impact of changes on labor, inventory, transportation, service levels, and capital investments.
Our teams work with finance, operations, and leadership to validate assumptions and ensure the roadmap aligns with budget cycles, growth plans, and service commitments. This integrated approach is a core part of our work in supply chain strategy consulting and often connects to downstream system improvements within supply chain technology.
LIDD doesn’t just hand you a report and walk away. After completing an initial assessment and roadmap, we look forward to implementing our recommendations—whether that means optimizing processes, redesigning a facility, introducing new systems, or supporting automation in a practical, actionable way.
We bring engineers, software specialists, and operational experts together to ensure that recommendations become real, measurable outcomes in the field. Clients frequently continue into implementation work through distribution center design or system modernization initiatives within supply chain technology.
