Complex transportation optimization project
Objective was to cut costs and reduce CO2 emissions while reducing the number of and professionalizing the supplier base.
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Context
- Client is a supplier of large-volume products to supermarkets, retailers and professional users
- Focus was on road transportation, from 3 European sites to customers. Total spend of ca. €10m/year.
- Objective was to cut costs and reduce CO2 emissions while reducing the number of and professionalizing the supplier base
Our approach
> 18.000
Built tender database with >18.000 transports across >300 lanes, for palletized and bulk transport, organized first joint tender across 3 West-European sites, harmonizing relevant policies such as diesel surcharge methodology
> 400
Contacted >400 carriers and received >100 tariff offers totaling >1 million data points. Negotiated with >50 carriers
Seasonality
Built dynamic capacity model, to ensure sufficient availability of transports in critical peak season. Developed a transition plan to ensure successful go-live as of January 1st.
The impact of our
expert involvement.
10%
Implementation is in progress, savings in main site approach 10%, company-wide currently 6-7%
Reduction
Detailed, signed contracts in place with main partners, including penalty clauses. Significant reduction in number of carriers, also introducing several new, professional and larger parties
1 standard
Simplification in way of working, e.g. with 1 standard diesel surcharge, fixed allocation of lanes, simplified invoicing, etc. Actively steered on maximizing usage of return loads to reduce CO2
Benefit
6-7%
Savings
and in progress
