Redesign your network. Transform operations in the systems your teams use daily.
Network design, planning and service operations, carried through to the system release that enables the new way of working
Trade policy has turned network design into a live decision once again. Tariffs move, lanes reprice, customers expect service levels to be maintained while resisting higher costs, and the systems managing the flow of goods are often years behind the operations they support. COOs are being asked to deliver structural savings and service improvement in the same quarter, from networks designed for a different set of market conditions.
We address both sides of that challenge: our consultants redesign footprints, planning rules and service models, while our delivery teams embed those changes into AI-powered transportation, warehouse and customs systems. Optimization and forecasting models are integrated throughout the process, with success measured where it matters most: in operational and financial performance.
Where we work
Network & Footprint Design
Site, lane and mode decisions optimized on shipment-level data, with the service and cost consequences of each scenario quantified
Planning & Inventory
Machine-learning demand forecasts, stock policies and automated exception triage that reduce unplanned interventions and keep service levels stable
Procurement & Supplier Performance
Category strategies built on automatically classified spend, sourcing waves and supplier scorecards, with savings tracked to the contract and the invoice
Transport, Customs & Trade Execution
Carrier strategy, customs and trade compliance, with document extraction and classification models ensuring accurate declarations at scale
Service & Back-Office Operations
Capacity models, process redesign and agentic automation across customer service, billing and shared operations, reducing manual workloads while improving service performance
Target Operating Model Deployment
Operating models designed once, rolled out country by country through standardized playbooks and trained local teams. Adoption and operational performance are tracked through system telemetry after each wave
Process, roles, data and cutover set out in a single playbook and rolled out country by country alongside a common transport management platform for a global air and ocean network.
Why Talan?
From design to delivery
The target operating model comes with a clear implementation roadmap, from the first rollout through to adoption by the teams who put it into practice.
Hands-on systems experience
Process redesign is informed by people who have configured TMS and customs platforms, helping ensure the target state works in practice
A country-by-country roll-out
Local teams are trained and measured before go-live to ensure successful adoption in each market.
Lower costs with every wave
Each deployment creates reusable playbooks, a training materials and standards, reducing implementation cost for each successive wave
Data-based adoption tracking
Compliance with the new process is measured directly through operational data