Alternative fulfilment and transport arrangements

We stand up the second route for getting goods to your customers: a standby warehouse or fulfilment provider, an alternative carrier, a different port or border crossing, or a redistribution of volume across your own sites. Each route is qualified, priced and written into an activation playbook that shows the cost per order of using it.

• A route inventory showing every way an order or an inbound shipment can reach its destination.
• A shortlist of standby providers, qualified on capacity, location, systems fit and terms.
• A cost-per-order comparison between the normal route and each alternative.
• An activation playbook: trigger, decision-maker, steps, first-48-hours checklist and funding.
• A standby agreement framework that prices what it takes to keep each alternative ready.

• Your board reads the share of volume that has a qualified alternative route.
• Each alternative shows its cost per order beside the normal route, so a switch is a priced decision.
• A rehearsal times the hours from trigger to first order moved, and the playbook is judged on that figure.
• The standby cost you hold each month sits beside the revenue it protects.
• The board sees how many alternatives were re-qualified in the last year.

A closed port, a carrier strike, a fire at a warehouse or a road restriction gives the group days, not weeks. Without a qualified alternative, the group accepts whatever rates and terms the only available provider quotes, and customers wait.

• All outbound volume leaves from one warehouse or through one carrier.
• The group has never tested a standby provider with a live order.
• Nobody knows the cost per order if the main carrier is unavailable.
• Cross-border shipments rely on one port or one forwarder.
• Peak-season capacity is promised by the same provider that fails first at peak.

Operations and finance leaders of e-commerce brands, grocers, distributors, restaurant groups and logistics operators whose revenue depends on one warehouse, one carrier or one port of entry.

Qasim Abbas has answered for treasury above USD 50M at group level, so a fallback route is costed against the cash it protects. Your alternative fulfilment and transport options are compared on cost per order and on how fast each restores service.

We select providers with you from the market. The playbook lives in the CFO Room. See how fees work.

What does the board see before it needs an alternative?

The cost per order of each alternative beside the normal route, so a switch is a priced decision.

Can the alternative be our own second site?

Yes. Redirecting volume to another site you already operate is often the cheapest route, and the plan prices that too.

How fast does an alternative start moving orders?

In the time your rehearsal records. We time the run from trigger to first order moved, and the activation playbook is judged on that figure.

Describe the route you rely on most. We return the alternatives worth qualifying and what holding them ready costs, in a private briefing.