It is crucial to implement a network that optimises logistics costs, delivers according to customer promise and secures supply and distribution chains.
Context and challenges
Limiting environmental and budgetary impact, while improving the customer promise, is the new challenge faced by logistics teams in recent years.
An industrial company’s logistics network not only determines its service offering, but also its logistics/transport cost structure and stock levels.
The main performance challenges lie in quantity, location, defining the roles of each platform, and IT interfacing with regular carriers.
A structured methodology, focused on the main customers but also the supplier base, which takes into account local operational and regulatory constraints, should enable an optimised industrial footprint to be defined.
The Axsant approach
Axsant’s support is characterised by :
- Diagnosis of the current match between customer service strategy and logistics network performance (OTIF vs. cost-to-serve).
- Simulation and evaluation of different network models, optimally combining platforms and upstream and downstream transport flows.
- Drawing up a global logistics strategy, then implementing it at local level, using a technical and organisational change management approach.
- Setting up dashboards and indicators to measure the performance of the various platforms and transports, and to effectively manage flows.
- Assistance for logistics and/or transport services RFQs: preparation of specifications, suppliers selection, challenge of technical proposals and go live management.
