Success Stories
Logistics - Reengineering the workflow related to procurement logistics
Customer
A leading pan-Asian conglomerate, operates under well-known local brands including supermarkets, hypermarkets), health & beauty stores, convenience stores & home furnishing stores
- Inefficient Procurement logistics leading to high cost of operations
- Under utilization of pallets and docks for goods receipts at warehouses from various vendors
- Stretched waiting period for offloading of containers due to inefficient scheduling and improper planning
- Direct purchases by various stores due to untimely replenishment from back office
- Lack of proper monitoring and tracking of inflow and out flow of materials in warehouses
- Automated warehouse booking process for smooth delivery considering following parameters during Procurement:
- Expected delivery date & intervals
- Nos of trucks owned by vendor or distributor with their delivery frequency
- Vendors’ preferred delivery day & timings
- Booking availability of warehouses and time slot capacity per receiving dock
- Splitting of Purchase orders based on truck capacity for efficient fulfillment and decrease in ordering cost
- Maintenance of store delivery schedule for each stores across regions for ordering and delivering of store orders
- Automatic store order creation for replenishment using apportioning intelligence based on historical sales data
- Monitoring and inspection of movements of items for improved control by the system
- Efficient booking process of receiving location at warehouse for goods from different vendors resulted in improved procurement logistics
- Improved pallets and docks utilization at warehouses
- Reduction in ordering cost due to better truck capacity planning
- Less waiting time for trucks / containers to unload goods due to proper scheduling and smooth delivery sequence
- Better stock levels as per the delivery schedules for stores and timely replenishment
- Controlled direct purchase by stores from vendors
- IT/Users having closer monitoring of movement of materials across the supply chain providing enhanced control
- Significant decrease in Mark-outs due to synchronized info in system with on-hand
