LOGISTICS ADVISORY PTY LTD is an Australian private company. The practice was established in March 2017 and has worked, from that date, as an independent adviser on freight cost, import and export design, warehouse networks and the contracts that sit underneath them. The registered office is 14/176 Bluestone Cct, Seventeen Mile Rocks, Queensland 4073. There is no second branch, no national shopfront and no warehouse of our own. Clients who need a shed or a truck are directed to a contestable market, not to an internal product.
The firm is an Australian private company, GST-registered from 17 March 2017. Those facts are on the public record.
Why the firm exists
Australian importers, manufacturers and distributors pay a great deal of money to move goods and still cannot always say whether the invoice is competitive. The rate card is visible. Detention, redelivery, storage, peak surcharges, poor cube, the wrong mode and an uncontested 3PL margin are not. A forwarder, a 3PL and a warehouse operator each have a product to protect. This practice does not. That is the point of the brief.
We are used when a management team can see the freight invoice and cannot see whether the problem is the rate, the contract, the node or the calendar. The output is a recommendation the client can take to a board, to operations or to a supplier. It is not a booking. It is not a tenancy. It is not a sales overlay dressed as a workshop.
Independence, written down
If a carrier, a 3PL or a warehouse landlord is selected at the end of a project, the client signs that contract. We do not take a commission from the winning supplier. We do not retain a warehouse to fill. We do not hold ocean space that must be sold. Advisers on the work have operating backgrounds in freight forwarding, warehousing, 3PL contracting and customs-facing import programs. We do not publish a staff directory. Clients deal with the people on the engagement.
Independence is easy to claim and easy to leak. It leaks when the same firm that writes the tender also owns the shed. It leaks when the person scoring the 3PL is paid by the 3PL. It leaks when the only data in the room is the supplier's dashboard. This practice is built to avoid those leaks. That boundary is deliberate. A cost review that cannot survive a procurement lawyer is not a review.
What we will not pretend to be
We are not a licensed customs broker. Licensed work stays with the broker you appoint. We will help you brief that broker and design the operating process around the declaration. We are not a law firm. Incoterms and contract comments in our papers are operating comments, not legal advice. We are not a freight forwarder. If you need someone to move the freight, we will help you choose them. We will not become them.
We also will not invent a second office. National work is taken from Seventeen Mile Rocks by email and scheduled working sessions. A nameplate in another city would not change the work. The work does not require it.
The practice
Work is organised as five files: cost review, import and export design, warehouse networks, supplier selection, and compliance and risk. Case studies are anonymised. Insights set out the firm's view of Australian freight, customs and network design. Correspondence is info@logisticsadv.com.au.
What a client should expect in writing
A scoped engagement letter before invoices are collected. A statement of which file we think you have opened. A list of data we need. A statement of what we will not do: lodge a declaration, issue a bill of lading, take a supplier commission, sign a warehouse tenancy on your behalf, or impersonate a lawyer. Clients deal with the people named on the engagement. There is no published staff directory and no sales overlay dressed as a workshop.
The firm has one office. National files are taken from Seventeen Mile Rocks. GST from 17 March 2017.