Case Study · Logistics & Distribution

Turning scattered processes into measurable productivity for a regional distributor.

A nine-month operational-improvement partnership — engineered around the client's network and identity, not a template.

Sector

Logistics & distribution

Engagement

Operational improvement

Duration

9-month partnership

The challenge

Growth had outrun the way the work was done.

A successful regional distributor had scaled faster than its processes. Orders moved through a patchwork of manual handoffs that varied site to site, and leadership couldn't see where performance was leaking — only that margins were tightening as volume grew.

They had been pitched an off-the-shelf operating template by another firm. It would have worked against the very service identity their customers valued. They came to Baje for a solution built around the business they had actually built.

Our approach

One disciplined method, re-engineered for their network.

The same four stages we bring to every partnership — analyze, strategize, execute, improve — weighted to this business.

Analyze

We immersed in the operating model and used formal frameworks to surface the two constraints actually holding throughput back — neither of which was where the team expected.

Strategize

We developed a custom methodology weighted to their distribution network, their margins, and the service identity their customers already valued.

Execute

We embedded alongside the operations team to roll the plan out in stages — changing how the work flowed without disrupting the work itself.

Improve

We instrumented the new process and tuned it against live performance, scaling what worked across regions over the back half of the engagement.

The outcome

Scalability and efficiency — compounded into productivity.

The new operating model still reads as theirs. It just runs measurably better, and it scales to new sites without re-inventing the work each time.

+38%

Order throughput

−24%

Cost to serve

3×

Faster site onboarding

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