Supply Chain Leaders Meetup — Jeddah

The United Integrated Logistics team joined the Supply Chain Leaders Meetup in Jeddah, part of a regular series bringing together the executives responsible for logistics operations across the Western Region.

Discussion centred on a practical question: why do inventory variances persist even where a warehouse management system (WMS) is in place? The conclusion we put forward was that a system does not correct a flawed practice — it documents it. The answer starts with re-engineering procedures and training the team, and only then extracting the full value of the system.

We also presented the results-based commercial model the company operates, which allows part of the fee to be linked to a share of the actual savings delivered to the client — a model that drew clear interest from those attending.

• Diagnosing the causes of recurring inventory variances
• The role of SOPs before and after a WMS implementation
• Presenting our savings-linked fee model