UK Retail Transport Optimisation and Cost reduction Project targeted to identify group-wide opportunities for transport improvement and solution optimisation.

Business targets

To identify synergies across the group which currently operates a complex supply chain:

• Multiple supply chain operations across business units.
• Sector specific planning platforms.
• Business Unit (BU) centric Executive Reporting.

Our approach

• Discovery: Gain business understanding via facilitated workshops, data gathering & analysis.
• Opportunity Assessment: Assessment of opportunities and hi-level cost. enablers, together with an assessment of the ease of implementation and risk.
• Reporting: Structured approach across all BU’s to ensure that comparisons are valid.

Outcome

• Opportunities identified around TMS, 3rd party transport operation improvements, and integrated supply chain.
• Opportunities identified around home delivery service; smoothing the schedules to balance fleet requirements and backhaul opportunities.
• Opportunities include uniting the fleet, harmonised driving T&Cs, developing a waste handling network, integrated supplier systems, and creating a control tower to plan all transport.