Richard Koch

Richard is a co-founder and Managing Director of New World Business Solutions. Since 1985 he has worked with a wide variety of industries to deliver supply chain and logistics solutions. Before establishing New World, Richard held executive positions with Finemore’s Transport (now Toll Group), Linfox, Viking Freight System (USA), a subsidiary of Federal Express Corporation, and DTM Business Logistics.

Since 1998 Richard has consulted to companies in Australia and the Asia Pacific region, managing a team of professional logisticians in all aspects of supply chain strategy, outsourcing, distribution centre design and implementation for retailers, distributors and manufacturers. Clients who have benefited from his work include: retail – eg. Supercheap Auto, automotive eg. Mitsubishi Motors, food & beverage eg. Unilever Australasia, technology & communications eg. IBM, manufacturing eg. GWA Heating & Cooling, consumer goods eg. 3M Australia and media & publishing eg. Australian Newsagents Federation.

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His fields of competence are:

• Supply Chain Strategy & Design
• Logistics Outsourcing, Contract Development and Negotiation
• Distribution Network Design
• Inventory Management
• Feasibility Studies
• Transport Optimisation & Design
• Software Selection & Implementation
• Dangerous Goods Transport & Storage
• Project Management
• Warehouse Productivity Improvement
• Logistics Performance Assessment
• Vehicle Specification, Scheduling & Route Optimisation

He has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento, California, USA and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, Logistics Association of Australia, and previously of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)