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Contexte et défis

Dans un environnement marqué par la libéralisation des marchés, l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs, la croissance rapide des flux d’échanges et le changement des attentes des consommateurs, les acteurs du transport et de la logistique doivent transformer en profondeur leur modèle et leur organisation pour tirer parti des nouvelles opportunités.

Dans le secteur aérien, l’essor du modèle low-cost et la montée en puissance de nouveaux acteurs bénéficiant de solides avantages concurrentiels imposent la recherche d’économies durables. Dans le ferroviaire, les opérateurs historiques doivent faire face à l’ouverture à la concurrence du marché du transport de passagers ainsi qu’aux challenges liés à l’évolution de la mobilité. Ils doivent aussi améliorer significativement leur compétitivité tout en assurant le financement des infrastructures. 

Les services postaux sont quant à eux contraints d’adapter leur modèle et leur organisation à l’ère du numérique, marquée par une érosion du courrier et une croissance rapide des volumes de colis. Pour répondre à la demande croissante des clients, les acteurs de la logistique doivent transformer leurs modèles opérationnels et tirer parti des nouvelles technologies (automatisation, tracking, cartographie, dématérialisation, data). Dans le fret aérien et le maritime, le digital favorise l’émergence de nouveaux entrants qui bouleversent les business models et imposent aux acteurs traditionnels de repenser leur métier en profondeur. Enfin, les acteurs du tourisme sont eux aussi confrontés à l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs qui captent une partie du trafic et de la valeur et les contraignent à revoir en profondeur leur modèle opérationnel.

 

Notre approche

Argon & Co accompagne de grands acteurs du tourisme et du transport aérien, maritime et ferroviaire, ainsi que des entreprises de services postaux, messagerie et logistique. Nous les soutenons dans leurs projets de réorganisation et d’efficacité opérationnelle, à tous les niveaux de la chaîne de valeur. 

  • Achat : stratégie achat, make or buy, organisation et pilotage de la performance achat, (re)conception à coûts objectifs, plans de performance achat. 
  • Manufacturing (production et maintenance) : stratégie d’actifs, planification de la maintenance et des travaux, lean maintenance et excellence opérationnelle, optimisation de la supply chain des pièces de rechange, maintenance prédictive.
  • Logistique : politique de service, schémas directeurs logistiques, organisation et pilotage de la logistique, plans de performance logistique, mécanisation/automatisation des sites logistiques, optimisation du transport.
  • Opérations : productivité/lean, planification des ressources, optimisation des process back-office. 
  • Back office : optimisation des organisations, shared services et externalisation, optimisation/automatisation des processus support, pilotage du service et de la performance. 
  • Digital : stratégie digitale, plateformes collaboratives, IA (expérience client, customer intelligence, prévision, gestion des prix, promotions et opérations), IoT (traçabilité), RPA (Robotic Process Automation).

Transport et logistique : études de cas

WMS recovery and implementation

cold chain logistics

WMS recovery and implementation

Swire Cold Storage is a leading Australian provider of cold chain logistics services and supply chain solutions, offering temperature-controlled warehousing, refrigerated transport and distribution services to a broad range of businesses.

A previous in-house WMS implementation had not been completed. The impact of the part implementation was a deterioration of performance from the warehouse and cost impacts.

 

  • Identify the key issues driving poor warehouse performance
  • Work with the DC management team to prioritise and resolve issues whilst improving business as usual
  • Project manage the re-implementation of the WMS with the IT systems supplier (in Canada)
  • Change manage the implementation of the system, improve capability via training, reduce process blockages and improve performance to a developed schedule

 

  • Full process re-write and all SCS employees trained
  • Increased productivity from warehouse staff and increased space availability within the warehouse
  • Improved relationship management with the software provider, allowing for further system enhancements moving forward
  • Delivered a reduced cost base warehouse

End-to-end supply chain study for letter and parcel deliveries

services

End-to-end supply chain study for letter and parcel deliveries

La Poste is a multi-activity services group; its the number 1 operator of postal services, banks, insurance, and telephone services. The Group has an annual turnover of €26 billion and its network is made up of more than 17,000 retail outlets.

Three entities of La Poste Group (procurement, network and mail) decided to replace their supply and inventory management infrastructure with a common ERP that could deliver process synergies to the group.

  • Design organisational & IT solution to manage end-to-end processes, to plan resources and acquire visibility (track & trace)
  • Promote logistics operational excellence to ensure quality and guarantee service policy
  • Promote new forecasting and planning processes based on predictive, demand signals interpretation and AI solutions
  • Diagnosed the efficiency of e2e process management from collection to delivery (forecast, planning, real-time tracking, performance monitoring) and identified improvement levers
  • Benchmarked against external best practices
  • Optimised process redesign
  • Developed a business case to support the change
  • Conducted a maturity assessment on technology and organisation
  • Developed a 3-year roadmap

 

Warehouse densification opportunity

global logistics

Warehouse densification opportunity

Kuehne + Nagel is a global leader in logistics. It is a key logistic partner for a French distributor, Carrefour. Its non alimentary logistic is organised from two mirror warehouse (Household and Bazaar), and from a third national one dedicated for the product categories Photo-cinema-electronics-audio, Culture and Textile.

The objective was to study the opportunity to move the flows from the national warehouse (~110,000m²) to the northern mirror warehouse (~130,000m², with a limited capacity for expansion).

  • Determine gross requirements regarding surface that would result from all activities fusion
  • Identify surfaces densification levers
  • Calculate net requirements resulting from gross requirements’ projection at three years and densification levers implementation
  • Compare net requirements with site capacity, estimate investments, one-time costs and running costs resulting from the activities transfer
  • Identified 12 densification levers in technical and organisational areas
  • Identified a reduction in surface area of 55,000m²
  • Aligned surface needs with warehouse capacity
  • Evaluated investments, one-time costs and associated running costs, with a 2-years ROI

Inventory modelling and optimisation

distribution company

Inventory modelling and optimisation

Hills provides end to end, B2B solutions in the audio visual, security and surveillance, TV and Antenna, and Health technologies industry. They offer product solutions across all verticals, as well as shared services, including asset management and service capabilities.

The company needed support to radically transform their approach to inventory management from ordering and forecasting to distribution. Planning processes were inconsistent, and change was needed across people, processes and systems to reduce and avoid poor performing inventory holdings.

  • Diagnose and assess the health of divisional inventory holdings and ranging
  • Design an inventory planning operating model based on best practice
  • Drive inventory optimisation by developing and implementing new inventory planning and ranging policies and upskilling the planning capability within the organisation
  • Lead forecasting and inventory planning system selection and implementation
  • New inventory planning model deployed to each division including detailed processes, policies, reporting and KPIs
  • New organisational model deployed to support effective inventory management and accountability
  • New inventory planning system implemented, supporting forecasting, order placement and transfers within the network
  • Projected inventory reduction >30% by year end

 

Warehouse operations strategy

packaging supplier

Warehouse operations strategy

Bunzl Retail Supplies is a division of Bunzl plc, the global leaders in providing outsourcing solutions and service oriented distribution. Bunzl Retail Supplies is the largest provider of “goods not for resale” to the UK retail market.

Changing product ranges and customer demands meant that the warehouse infrastructure and operating methods no longer delivered the required service or cost performance.

  • Identify future warehouse needs considering a number of alternative business scenarios
  • Understand how current stock and supplier policies should adapt to reduce space requirements
  • Identify short-term efficiencies to reduce costs, improve service and enhance speed of change
  • Demonstrated a 49% reduction in total capacity required through better capacity management
  • Identified a further 19-32% reduction in space utilisation through tighter stock control strategies
  • 10% productivity improvement with new picking methods
  • Reduced parcel delivery costs by 26% by optimising carrier selection