Logistics operations scale in steps. Recruitment that works one hire at a time will always arrive after the step has happened.
Warehouse and distribution operations do not grow smoothly. They grow in steps: a new contract, a new shift, a seasonal peak. Recruitment that is organised around individual vacancies is structurally unable to keep up with that, because the step happens on a date and a vacancy is filled whenever it is filled.
Plan against the shift pattern
Start from the shift pattern you will be running after the step, not the one you are running now. A second shift is not "a few more people"; it is a full complement including a lead, and it needs to arrive together or the shift cannot open.
Certification before travel, not after
Forklift and equipment certification should be confirmed before anyone books a flight. Discovering after arrival that half a batch cannot operate a truck is a common and entirely avoidable failure, and it usually happens when an agency is asked for numbers rather than for capability.
Build in the attrition you already know about
Every operation knows roughly what it loses in a year. Recruiting to establishment plus known attrition, once, is cheaper and faster than recruiting to establishment and then chasing the gap for the rest of the year.
Give us the date
The single most useful thing a logistics client can share is the go-live date for the step. From that we can work backwards through documentation and tell you when confirmation has to happen — which is almost always earlier than expected.
