Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Wellington Associates, Inc. is a hands-on consulting firm specializing in performance assessment, facilities planning, and process design services in the areas of distribution operations, plant material flow, warehousing, and logistics. The majority of Wellington clients are small to mid-size organizations looking for efficient and affordable solutions to capacity and productivity problems that are associated with the movement and storage of finished goods, raw materials or work-in-process. Assistance to large domestic and multi-national corporations is typically provided at a divisional or business unit level. Although most of Wellington's work is located within the continental United States, the company's reach is not geographically limited.

Wellington develops and implements practical solutions to physical distribution and general material handling problems, focusing on seven critical areas of logistics operations:

• Space
• Equipment and Technology
• Manpower and Productivity
• Material Flow
• Information Flow
• Inventory Management
• Energy Efficiency