About Us
KOM International provides innovative and proven supply chain and warehouse consulting services that enable companies around the world manage logistics activities more effectively.
Since 1963, KOM International has worked with many of today's fortune 500 companies across a wide spectrum of industry sectors to deliver world-class customer service levels at the least possible cost.
Our Mission
Our mission is based on one basic principle: The success of our clients is the passion that drives our dedicated team of professionals to deliver results that exceed client expectations.
61
Years of Market Expertise
More than
4,500
Completed Projects
5
Continents Where We've Operated
More than
1,000
Companies Trust Us
At KOM International our goal is to empower our clients to be leaders in their industry by discovering and implementing logistics operations improvements that enable world-class customer service and increased profits. Our goal is simple but powerful: to transform our clients' supply chains and to provide them with a significant competitive advantage.
Throughout the years, KOM International's approach to supply chain and warehouse consulting has been successful due to our focused mission:
Establish lasting ties with our clients by providing and implementing experienced and practical advice, and provide our employees with professional satisfaction and a promising career.
President's Message
How Distributors Are Meeting Today's Biggest Challenges
Allan Kohl, President and CEO
KOM International provides supply chain and warehouse consulting expertise across such areas as distribution strategies; network design; facility design; facility re-engineering; detailed planning, implementation and change management; software evaluation, selection and implementation and disaster recovery planning.
We are proud of 61 years of uninterrupted success and it will be our pleasure to explore how KOM, can help you turn today's supply chain challenges into opportunities.
The KOM team collaborates with your managers to identify and implement the best possible solution within the often conflicting constraints of labor resources, financial budgets and new technologies.
Sidney KOM's philosophy: Our Clients' needs always come first.
Our recommendations are always completely impartial and provide the best benefit to our clients.
This philosophy is still apparent today in the dedication of our staff, the quality of our work, and the loyalty of our past clients.
Improved service levels, reduced operations costs, and increased competitive advantage through world-class supply chain operations are the results our clients have come to expect from the projects we undertake with them.
History
In 1963, KOM International was founded by Mr. Sydney Kom with the vision to help North American retail grocery firms achieve warehousing operations excellence. For over 61 years, the firm has evolved to provide a full suite of supply chain, logistics and warehouse consultant services to companies across a wide range of industrial sectors and global markets. To this day, KOM International maintains its leadership position in logistics consulting to the Grocery trade through a highly specialized practice specific to food-related industries.
During the 1960's, Mr. Sydney Kom worked with Mr. Terry Perks to steadily build the firm's consulting practice. During this time, KOM International was responsible for the development of many leading-edge logistics concepts that remain in practice with today's most efficient retailers. As the years progressed and the partnership expanded, the firm added new core competencies, expertise in other industries and opened new offices in global markets.
Today, KOM International maintains its reputation as the most experienced, forward-thinking and specialized logistics and industrial engineering consulting firm in the industry. The firm's specialized services provide significant financial and customer service benefits to companies as small as $50 million to as large as $200 billion in sales across the manufacturing, wholesale and retail industry sectors.
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Leadership Team
Commitment. Expertise. Enthusiasm.
Our company boasts an exceptional management team comprising the most skilled and proficient professionals in the field.
Allan Kohl,
President and CEO
Allan Kohl is President and Chief Executive Officer of KOM International responsible for the company's operations. Mr. Kohl works out of corporate headquarters in the Montreal office and overseeing operations in the Montreal, Toronto, and Mexico City corporate offices.
As President, CEO Mr. Kohl brings extensive experience to this role, as he originally joined KOM International in 1972 as a project manager. Mr. Kohl has since managed several hundred logistics and warehouse consulting projects involving completely automated materials handling systems, warehouse management systems, radio frequency and bar coding technologies, mechanized sortation facilities and other advanced distribution concepts. Over the past 43 years, Mr. Kohl has consulted for some of the largest and most sophisticated distribution firms in Canada, United States, Europe and Asia.
As a Senior Partner at KOM International, Mr. Kohl manages a team of professional logisticians dedicated to serving clients across diversified sectors of the economy including manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers in the grocery, food service, apparel, recorded music/video, books, sporting goods, firearms, automotive parts, mail order, health and beauty care, pharmaceuticals, and government.
Mr. Kohl has been published in numerous distribution trade journals and has been a featured speaker at industry trade shows including FMI, IFDA and WERC.
Mr. Kohl has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, a Diploma in Management and a Master of Business Administration from McGill University.
María Castro
Partner, Mexico
Practise Leader – Mexico & Latin America
María Castro is a Senior Partner at KOM International leading the practice in Mexico and Latin America.
Her responsibilities as Senior Partner include business development for KOM International as well as planning and development of supply chain projects.
María has more than 25 years of experience in supply chain, operations and process reengineering for leading Latin American companies across a wide variety of industry segments.
She has successfully participated in more than 300 projects involving routing strategy design, forecasting and distribution planning, GPS technology implementation, transportation management and costs optimization, strategic network analysis, greenfield and brownfield distribution center design, material flux optimization and warehouse at industrial plants and WMS-OMS-MRP-DRP-ERP software implementation.
María’s mother’s tongue is Spanish and she is fluent in English, German and French. She has a B.S in Industrial and systems engineering at ITESM Monterrey and a postgraduate program in Framework process systems at the Hochschule Wismar in Germany. She’s published in logistics magazines and specialized media. María enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends.