Our Company
Labyrinth Logistics Consulting is a privately owned UK based supply chain and logistics consultancy based in Leamington Spa. It was founded in the year 2000 as a specialist transport consultancy; but broadened its services following a merger with The Supply Chain Design Company in 2008. Owned and led by its two owners and directors, Ruth Waring and Jo Godsmark, Labyrinth provides a personal touch with blue chip expertise.
Although primarily a consultancy company Labyrinth has recently developed its services in two distinct ways: in 2013 Labyrinth launched the Labyrinth Safety Circle to bring Health & Safety practitioners from across the logistics industry together to share best practice and in late 2014 Labyrinth distilled years of transport compliance experience by developing and selling a unique transport compliance management and audit tool, SilkThread®.
Below are the directors of Labyrinth Logistics Consulting who head a dedicated team of associate consultants.
Labyrinth Logistics Consulting Ltd is in the process of applying for ISO 9001:2015 status with the help of our established partners, Risk Evolves.
Labyrinth has already passed its Stage 1 audit with flying colours and we are looking forward to welcoming the Stage 2 Auditor from UKAS-accredited certification body NQA in July.
Labyrinth Logistics Consulting is delighted to have won a £25k Grant from the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of the T-TRIG grant award for Transport Innovation projects. Labyrinth is using these funds to establish the feasibility of a multi user compliance dashboard that all hauliers can access to provide compliance information demonstrating their company’s status against the DVSA’s Earned Recognition (ER) targets. Details of the award can be found here:
Labyrinth’s MD, Ruth Waring FCILT said “We are thrilled to have secured this funding, which will make a big difference to our ability to deliver benefits to our existing client base and beyond. By publishing the results of this study we will be helping hauliers big and small reap the benefits of being early adopters of ER in 2017.” Waring added that Labyrinth is keen to hear from companies interested in becoming early adopters of the ER scheme, as well as software providers looking to link to the dashboard.
The DVSA Earned Recognition scheme, expected to launch in early 2017, has the potential to transform the compliance environment for transport operators, encouraging them to embed quality compliance into their day to day business by reducing the burden of inspections for operators who obey the rules. For the industry and Regulator to realise the full benefits that this change of approach can deliver, the systems and interfaces that will enable evidence to be visible and transparent are a vital part of the picture.
Labyrinth is using the DfT grant to develop a prototype dashboard within Labyrinth’s transport compliance web application, SilkThread®, to prove the concept of information moving seamlessly between tacho and maintenance compliance systems and a Red/Yellow/Amber/Green display facility, that will demonstrate the company’s status against the ER targets and generate automated compliance status emails for the DVSA.
Labyrinth is currently establishing the technical and commercial feasibility of developing a multi-user dashboard populated by Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) for ALL hauliers to be able to access so that they can make use of the ER scheme and provide senior managers with a single compliance dashboard. This has benefits for hauliers as it enables the compliant operator to demonstrate this to then DVSA and, in return, to be “left alone”, and major benefits for the DVSA as they will attract more ER users, enabling them to direct scarce resource at the serially non-compliant.
