Advisory & audits · Fee-for-service

An outside read of your cold chain, with nothing to sell you afterwards.

Five engagements, fixed-fee, run by assessors who spent their careers in distribution. Every finding is written against a published DCS standard, so you can see exactly what the expectation is and argue with it if you disagree.

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Services

What we are asked for, and what it costs

Fees are in Canadian dollars, exclude taxes and travel outside Manitoba, and are confirmed as a fixed number in writing before any work starts. Members pay the rates shown; non-members add 25%.

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Facility & Fleet Assurance Audit

A full assessment of one site and its outbound fleet against DCS-01, DCS-02 and DCS-03: receiving, staging, storage, load-out, vehicle condition, calibration records, deviation handling and training coverage.

$4,800 starting fee

Lead time 4–6 weeks · Report 15 business days · For single-site distributors, carriers, 3PLs

1–2 days on site with two assessors
Findings ranked by product risk, each tied to a clause
Corrective action plan with realistic effort estimates
No-charge review call at 90 days

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Route Thermal Mapping

Instrumented runs on your live lane in the season that matters, with calibrated loggers placed to DCS-01. We map what the load actually experiences rather than what the reefer display reports.

$6,400 starting fee

Lead time 6–8 weeks · Report 20 business days · For shippers moving product on repeatable lanes

Up to 12 loggers, summer and winter profiles
Nose, rear, floor and door-line placement
Raw data files handed over in full
Worst-case profile you can use for qualification

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Excursion Investigation

An independent DCS-04 investigation when a shipment goes wrong and the parties disagree about what happened. We reconstruct the timeline from the available records and state a defensible conclusion.

$3,200 starting fee

Lead time Start within 3 business days · Report 10 business days · For quality leads facing a disputed shipment

Timeline reconstruction from logger and dock data
Mean kinetic temperature and stability-budget analysis
Clear statement of probable cause
Report written to be shown to the receiver

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Supplier Assurance Program

A structured annual programme covering multiple carriers or 3PLs on your behalf: a common questionnaire, a risk-ranked audit schedule, and one comparable scorecard across every supplier.

$12,500 starting fee

Lead time Annual programme · Report Rolling · For manufacturers and health authorities with many carriers

Up to six supplier audits per year
Common scorecard and re-audit triggers
Quarterly summary for your quality council
Supplier debriefs run by us, not by you

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Cold Chain Readiness Review

A deliberately small entry engagement: a half-day remote review of your documents and logger exports, and a short written statement of the three things most likely to cost you product this year.

$1,850 starting fee

Lead time 2–3 weeks · Report 10 business days · For smaller operations and first-time members

Half-day remote session, no travel cost
Document and data review before the call
Three prioritised actions, plainly written
Credited against a full audit within 12 months

Self-check

Six questions before you call us

This is the same opening set our assessors use on a scoping call. It takes about a minute, nothing is sent anywhere, and it will tell you whether an engagement is worth the money yet.

Answers stay in your browser. We do not record, store or transmit them — there is no form submission behind this tool.

Engagement terms

Five things we put in every contract

Fixed fee, quoted before we start

If the scope changes we stop and re-quote. We have never issued a variation invoice without a written scope change first.

Your data stays yours

Raw logger files, photographs and interview notes are handed over at the close of the engagement. We retain a copy for seven years for audit trail purposes and nothing else.

No product recommendations

A finding will tell you that a passive shipper cannot hold 96 hours at −25 °C ambient. It will not tell you whose shipper to buy.

Confidential by default

We never name a member in a case study, dataset or bulletin without written permission. Anonymised findings feed the excursion register in aggregate only.

You may disagree in writing

Any finding can be challenged before the report is finalised. Unresolved disagreements are printed in the report alongside our position, with yours stated in your own words.

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