Helping logistics leaders, emerging technology companies, and investors navigate complex operations, accelerate growth, and turn innovation into measurable results.
From network strategy and automation investments to go-to-market execution, ADK Advisory brings executive-level perspective to your most important challenges.
Distribution network design, cost-to-serve optimization, operating model transformation, and strategic choices across the supply chain. Translate complex trade-offs into decisions that improve performance.
Independent evaluation of robotics, automated storage, fulfillment technologies, and AI-enabled operations. Assess technical fit, business cases, deployment risk, and the path from pilot to scale.
Help logistics and technology businesses sharpen their value proposition, prioritize customer segments, develop partnerships, structure commercial models, and accelerate enterprise adoption.
Support founders, strategic investors, and private equity teams with market assessment, commercial and operational due diligence, technology evaluation, and scalable growth plans.
Optimize distribution networks, evaluate automation, reshape operations, and bring discipline to major technology and capital decisions.
Bridge product capabilities with real-world customer needs, build credible ROI cases, and establish commercial relationships that enable growth.
Gain an operator's view of competitive positioning, technology maturity, market opportunity, and the economics of scaling logistics solutions.
Examples of how we evaluate complex operational and commercial trade-offs to support better decisions.
Rethinking dimensional weight, carton sizing, shipment splitting, zone skipping, bundling, and carrier mix to lower delivered cost.
Read the case study →Comparing optimized manual picking, collaborative AMRs, goods-to-person, multi-shuttle, and cube-based systems to identify the right investment.
Read the case study →Replacing opaque cost pass-through with more variable activity-based pricing, balanced risk allocation, and gainsharing.
Read the case study →Flexible engagements built around the decision you need to make and the outcome you need to achieve.
Get close to the operations, economics, and commercial context. Pressure-test assumptions before recommending solutions.
Combine rigorous analysis with real-world experience to evaluate options, risks, and financial upside.
Help translate strategy into action through decision support, partnerships, implementation roadmaps, and ongoing advice.
ADK Advisory was founded by Adrian Kumar, a supply chain executive with 25 years of experience at DHL Supply Chain, spanning solutions design, operations analytics, customer innovation, and global sector development.
His work has focused on translating emerging technology and complex operating challenges into practical solutions — across warehouse automation, robotics, distribution networks, and commercial strategy.
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