Logistics and supply-chain specialist
ASP Logistics Management investigates difficult logistics problems that cross operational, commercial and regulatory boundaries, then turns the findings into delivery models that are efficient, compliant and commercially realistic.
Where the work sits
Cost, compliance and efficiency tend to break down at the handovers between participants. That's where Paul's work concentrates.
Each engagement is built around delivery. The work starts with the evidence and ends with an operating model that can be implemented in the real world.
Detailed industry and regulatory research, including historical data and the commercial record.
Check what participants believe about costs, volumes and constraints against what the evidence shows.
Trace the physical flow of goods and the commercial flow of charges, contracts and responsibility.
Environmental, biosecurity, competition and shipping regulation, across state and national borders.
Cost and volume models, process design and an implementation plan that stakeholders can act on.
Evidence gathering across policy, markets and operating practice.
Multi-modal networks integrating road, rail, sea and aggregation points.
Realistic cost models built on stockpiles, flows and actual charges.
How cargo, documents and data move between each participant.
Lawful pathways for handling, transport, disposal and export.
Who bears which cost, and where incentives sit across the chain.
Working with regulators, industry bodies and service providers.
Practical plans that move a model from paper into operation.
An evidence-based examination of how terminal access and empty-container charges developed, who ultimately bears those costs and how more transparent and efficient arrangements might operate.
A national model for managing treated timber posts at end of life, from regional stockpiles through to lawful disposal and processing.
Researched and benchmarked the costs built into the supply-chain model of an overseas leisure craft manufacturer shipping into Australia and New Zealand from Canada, the USA and Mexico, and compared them with competitors in the same market where possible.
The client had outsourced its supply chain to a global logistics provider and wanted to confirm it was getting the best deal. The findings confirmed it was, with one exception: warehousing, where competitors running their own warehouses were doing so at lower cost.
Assessed the case for Wingara to run its own fleet carrying 20 × 40' export containers a week from Bendigo to the Port of Melbourne. The study costed trucks, trailers, drivers and systems, mass management and Chain of Responsibility compliance, and terminal and empty-park access.
Importers, exporters, manufacturers, primary producers, transport operators, ports, shipping interests and major Australian businesses.
Cargo operations and customer service through the move from break-bulk to container shipping, including vessel stowage and port logistics.
Built one of the first integrated in-house sales and logistics systems. Oversaw the first bulk malt exports to Japan using standard containers with food-grade liners.
Operational turnaround of a major port transport operator, including a paperless transport management system and new contract wins.
Worked with the port community on efficiency gains and proposed a shared port community information portal.
Managed rapid growth in recycled-material exports, renegotiated transport and stevedore contracts and delivered significant cost savings within a year.
Log export programs into China, a national used-battery collection and logistics system, mine-to-port logistics in Western Australia, and advisory work across agriculture, forestry, mining and manufacturing.
Principal
Paul Blake is a logistics and supply-chain specialist with more than 50 years' experience across international shipping, ports, container terminals, transport, warehousing, commodity logistics and supply-chain management.
His background includes senior shipping and logistics roles, port and terminal experience, major project assignments and extensive consulting across international freight, commodity supply chains, ERP and transport systems, stakeholder engagement and operational improvement.
As a former Chairman of the Australian Peak Shippers Association, Paul has longstanding experience in shipping policy and industry representation, and remains focused on fair, efficient access to international markets for Australian producers.
Paul works directly with clients and stakeholders, bringing senior-level experience without unnecessary layers.
Paul works directly with importers, exporters, producers, industry bodies and government.