Consultancy + engineering One team
StratoFlow is a logistics consultancy with a software team attached. We go into the operation, find where cost and time are actually leaking, redesign the flow — and then build the systems that stop it coming back.
What we are brought in to fix
Two disciplines, one team
A consultancy can tell you what is wrong. A development shop can build what you specify. The expensive gap sits between them — and that is the gap we were built to close.
01 · Logistics consultancy
Warehousing, transport, inventory, cost-to-serve and the supplier relationships that hold it all together. We work on the floor and in the numbers, not just in the boardroom.
02 · Software development
Web platforms, integrations and reporting built specifically for how your operation runs — not a package you have to bend your process around.
2
Disciplines under one roof — no handover between advice and build
10
Working days from kick-off to a first written diagnostic
1
Business day to reply to any enquiry, every time
100%
Of code and documentation handed over to you, in your repositories
The gap we close
The recommendation is sound. The requirements document goes to a development partner who has never stood on a goods-in dock. Six months later the build is late, the assumptions were wrong, and the operation has quietly gone back to the spreadsheet.
How an engagement runs
STEP 01
A conversation, then a site visit or a screen-share of the systems as they really are. We want to see the workarounds, the spreadsheets and the WhatsApp groups — that is where the real process lives. No charge, no obligation.
STEP 02
A short, fixed-price piece of work. We quantify the problem with your own data, size the opportunity, and put it in writing: what is happening, what it costs, and the options ranked by effort against return.
STEP 03
Process changes and software delivered together in short cycles. You see working software early and often, and you can stop, change direction or take it in-house at the end of any cycle.
STEP 04
Documentation, training and a support arrangement that suits you — from a full handover to your team through to ongoing managed development. The exit is designed in from day one.
Capabilities
Where sites should be, what each one should do, and what a change to the footprint really costs once transport, labour and stock are all counted.
Layout, slotting, pick paths, labour models and shift patterns. Practical changes measured in lines per hour, not theory.
Rate benchmarking, tender management, carrier mix and the routing rules that decide who actually moves each consignment.
Getting your ERP, WMS, TMS, marketplaces and carriers talking reliably — including the EDI and file transfers nobody wants to touch.
One version of the numbers. Operational dashboards and reporting that people trust enough to run the daily meeting from.
Supplier risk, continuity planning, audit trails and the documentation you need when a customer or an auditor asks how the process works.
Sectors
We are sector-agnostic in principle, but the work most often looks like this.
Multi-channel fulfilment, returns, peak planning and marketplace integration.
Inbound materials flow, line-side supply, finished goods and aftermarket distribution.
Client onboarding, billing accuracy, tariff modelling and operational reporting.
Temperature integrity, shelf-life allocation, traceability and tight delivery windows.
Commercials
Consultancies are famously vague about this. We are not, because the shape of the deal tells you a lot about who you are dealing with.
Thirty minutes to understand the situation. No slides, no obligation, and we will tell you if we are the wrong people for it.
Scoped and priced in writing before anything starts. If the scope changes, you hear about it beforehand rather than on the invoice.
Time and materials against an agreed cap, or a fixed price per milestone. Invoiced monthly in arrears so you can see what you are paying for.
A set number of days each month, bought a month at a time. Useful when you have capable people who need senior capacity on tap.
All charges are in pounds sterling and exclude VAT. Invoices are payable within 14 days. There is no minimum term and no automatically renewing retainer — the detail is in our terms of business.
FAQ
Both, deliberately. Most operational problems are part process and part system — splitting them across two suppliers is where improvement programmes usually stall. We diagnose the operation and build the software with the same team, so nothing is lost in the handover.
No. Plenty of engagements end with a recommendation, a business case and a supplier shortlist — and we are happy for someone else to build it. Equally, we take on pure development work for clients who already know exactly what they need.
Discovery work can usually begin within two to three weeks. Urgent situations — a failing implementation, a peak-season problem, a supplier exit — we will always try to accommodate sooner. Tell us the deadline and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
You do. All source code, infrastructure definitions and documentation are handed over in your own repositories. We do not build on a proprietary platform you cannot leave, and we will happily hand a project to your in-house team or another supplier.
From owner-managed operations running a single site through to logistics functions inside larger groups. The common thread is a team that wants a practical answer and a working system, not a 90-slide deck.
A 30-minute call, no slides and no obligation. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so and point you somewhere better.