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Logistics & Distribution2,000+ employeesTransformation Partner

How a national logistics company turned 2,000 employees into problem solvers

Profit impact

+£150M growth

Driven by operational efficiency

EBITDA

+40%

Within 18 months

Ops monitoring

AI exception surfacing

Near zero manual

Escalation time

10-minute self-service

95% faster

The Frustration

The Head of Operations could see the opportunity. AI could transform how 2,000 people across the network managed exceptions, tracked performance, and made decisions. But the frontline teams were buried in the day-to-day. Senior managers were skeptical. The CTO had built internal tools that nobody was using. Every meeting about AI ended with agreement in principle and zero action.

The Turning Point

When a competitor automated their last-mile routing and cut delivery costs by 18%, the board demanded a response. The problem wasn’t the technology. It was getting 2,000 people to change how they worked.

The Approach

We embedded at leadership level — two days a week, inside the business. Month one: mapped every high-cost workflow across operations, finance, and customer service. Interviewed 40+ frontline staff to find where the real resistance lived. Built a sequenced rollout plan tied directly to P&L impact. Month two onwards: hands-on sessions with each department. Not training courses. Real workflows, real problems, solved together.

This engagement used our Transformation Partner tier.

The honest bit

The ops team pushed back hard in the first two weeks. They’d seen “transformation initiatives” before and assumed this was another one that would generate a report and disappear. We had to earn trust by solving one small problem with them before they’d engage with the bigger picture.

The Results

Profit impact

Baseline+£150M growth

Driven by operational efficiency

EBITDA

Baseline+40%

Within 18 months

Ops monitoring

15+ hrs/week manualAI exception surfacing

Near zero manual

Escalation time

2-day ticket cycle10-minute self-service

95% faster

Our people went from waiting for instructions to solving problems themselves. That shift changed the entire culture, not just the numbers.

Head of Operations

National logistics company

Why it stuck

We didn’t build AI systems for them. We taught their people to use AI on the problems they faced every day. The team became self-sustaining — and the gains kept compounding after we finished.

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