Delivering high performance supply chains & logistics
     
 
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Logistic Process & Management Solutions
 

From supply chain management to logistics is a small step. Often both terms are used indiscriminately. Logistics concerns the operations and processes to get the goods from the point-of-supply (often production) to the-point-of consumption or use.

Benefits

The dynamics of today require companies to regularly review and re-engineer their logistics structure and processes. Companies, who did that, experience such typical benefits as:

 

    - Improved product availability and higher service levels

    - Direct costs savings ranging from 10 - 20%

    - Shorter order lead-times and order-to-cash time reductions

    - Stock reductions of up to 20%

    - Visibility of supply chain costs en performance levels

    - Released cash tied-up in assets and stocks

    - Improved capability to adjust to changing market conditions

 

Expertise

Via Real supports companies in developing and implementing logistics solutions.  

From the mid-eighties on we have been involved in many projects in managerial as well as consultancy roles. Below you find an overview of the projects we have been involved in. 
 
 
 
SOLUTION
 
PROJECT
 
SECTOR
Distribution structure
Quick response chain
EDC / RDC development
Locations studies (CAST)
Reverse logistics
 
Pan-European distribution set-up
European store replenishment
National Distribution set-up
various
Development of collection and returns network for hardware supplier
 
Clothing & textiles
Components
FMCG suppliers
Retail
Automotive
Spare-parts
 
 
Process (re-)design
Supplier integration
Centralisation of stocks
Continous replenishement
Slow-mover consolidation
 
 
 
Green-field project
Change management project
Logistics (re-)engineering
Design replenishment operations
Developping DC design parameters
 
 
FMCG / Clothing & textiles
Publishing / Food retail
Food (dry + ambient)
Healthcare
Non-food retail
 
 
DC operations
Cross-dock
Merge-in-transit
Multi-modal transport
Outsouring / insourcing
 
 
 
Operational set-up
Stock consolidation
Pre-consolidation / bundling supply
Process improvement projects
KPI development & benchmarking
Redesign on-site working methods
 
 
Food-retail
Publishing
House-hold appliances
FMCG
Healthcare
Catalogue + E-sales