Strategic thinking to help you reach your corporate goals
For transportation and logistics services providers, PLG Consulting helps you develop and execute strategies for:
- Growth and market penetration
- Competitive advantage
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
PLG Consulting’s deep and broad experience combines insights from both service provider and shipper perspectives. We bring a strong understanding of commodity flows, market conditions, and business drivers within our key industry verticals (and your important customers) – green energy, renewables, chemicals, oil and gas, manufacturing, minerals and metals and other bulk commodities. Take advantage of our unique knowledge. Let us help you formulate strategies that achieve your business goals.
Growth and market penetration
PLG Consulting helps you penetrate new markets and customers with more than just market data and trends analysis. We also help facilitate contacts and relationships within target industries and customers, ensuring the value we deliver is practical and actionable. We identify new customers and products that can be handled by carriers and terminals, supporting improved asset utilization.
Competitive advantage
Get a leg up on both direct and modal competition. With a strong command of surface transportation across all modes, as well as unique insights on industry players, PLG Consulting helps you determine the best business strategies to rise above your competition.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
PLG Consulting understands the business of all surface transportation modes – rail, intermodal, truck, barge, pipeline, and ocean – as well as terminals, distribution companies, and logistics service providers.
Private equity firms, transportation and logistics companies looking to make changes in their existing or planned portfolio companies call PLG Consulting to help with their M&A strategy. Beyond target profiles, end-customer markets, and geographic focus, we add practical and actionable solutions with key introductions, valuation advisory, due diligence, and post-transaction improvements.
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Project Examples
A world-leading chemical producer supplying products to large industrial customers improves competitiveness via comprehensive rail freight negotiation strategy
The Client, a world-leading chemical producer supplying products to large industrial customers, owns a major producing facility that is captive to a single railroad. The challenge was to develop and execute a rail freight negotiations strategy that would...
North American leader in paper and paperboard recycling optimizes rail logistics via business strategy in volatile market
A leader in paper and paperboard recycling, with production plants in Canada and 80+ destinations throughout North America, was looking for rail commercial market expertise to help them maximize the outcome of their master rail contract...
Global Fortune 500 food manufacturer implementing six major supply chain transformation initiatives from PLG
PLG helped a Fortune 500 food manufacturer identify six key global supply chain opportunities. PLG evaluated how the client manages its supplier relationships, assigns accountability, captures critical shipment and invoicing data, and drives efficiencies in transportation...
Major refining company optimizes their logistics strategy via comprehensive railcar fleet assessment
A major petroleum refiner, producing high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and specialty lubricant products was looking for a comprehensive railcar fleet assessment to understand opportunities for improved efficiencies and cost reductions. Due...
Midwest-based operator of metals service centers invested in US road freight analysis to help improve service levels and market competitiveness while reducing costs
A large Midwest-based operator of metals service centers with over 14 facilities was seeking a solution for ongoing service concerns and high freight costs for their clients within the aerospace, automotive, chemical processing, consumer products, construction,...
Major landfill gas recycler teams up with leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to bring to market cost-effective compressed gases
An international leader in developing technology to make clean burning, renewable second-generation biofuels was looking to team up with a leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to recycle landfill gases into cost-effective compressed natural...
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