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Case Study: Food & Beverage – Specialty Bakery Products
SCALABILITY
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LeanLogistics helps us leverage transportation strengths.
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VP Supply Chain
Quick Facts • • • • •
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland Global leader in specialty bakery category 68,000 shipments annually in North America 24 bakeries and 15 inventory centers in North America $70 million in annual transportation
Business Challenge Consolidate and centralize the transportation networks of various companies by leveraging strengths and best practices into a single, unified business unit.
SaaS Solution LeanTMS® leverages the SaaS technology platform behind the LeanLogistics Transportation Network to improve service, reduce cost and gain complete visibility into business processes.
Company’s Results • • • •
Increased Visibility Centralized Control of Transportation Enhanced Best Practices Improved Collaboration
COLLABORATION IMPROVES WHILE CENTRALIZING TRANSPORTATION WITH LeanTMS ®
Client Profile A global food business with a leadership position in specialty bakery, this Zurich, Switzerland based conglomerate has operations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company has businesses in 19 countries, including 48 manufacturing centers and 100 distribution centers worldwide. On the transportation side in North America, 24 bakeries across its network, including full-service and regional specialty bakeries with 15 inventory centers, allows the company to ship direct store delivery whenever possible, using many modes including TL, LTL and intermodal. In the US and Canada, volume is 68,000 shipments per year, with an annual transportation spend of approximately $70 million.
Business Process and Problem Definition The company has grown organically and through many acquisitions over the years with the goal of becoming the global leader in the specialty-baking category. Acquiring companies brought a multitude of challenges, including disparate systems, lack of consistency in processes, limited visibility and minimal flexibility. Best practices were not shared among companies and most data was tracked manually through spreadsheets. Transportation challenges identified: • • • • • •
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Lack of visibility within each company and across companies Lack of scalability and flexibility Too many manual and disparate processes Best practices were not shared among companies Quick transition requirements Lack of communication and collaboration with vendors
The transportation goal was to increase overall visibility for transportation operations, not just for load planning and understanding of the business, but for a better organizational analysis of overall transportation spend.
Case Study: Food & Beverage – Specialty Bakery Products
Process Improvement – SaaS Solution The company was running LeanLogistics within a few acquired business units. The company made the decision to standardize, with LeanTMS® in North America, to provide visibility, improve processes, increase collaboration and reduce spend. As the company’s offerings expand with recent acquisitions, LeanLogistics helps evolve the transportation network to match new freight profiles. LeanTMS combines transportation data of all business units to highlight opportunities for more efficient freight choices, round trips and significant savings in loads. The visibility LeanTMS provides to the company, suppliers and customers enables them to bridge the information gap and gain efficiencies via collaboration. As the company continues to grow by acquisitions, the ability to capitalize on the economies of scale is a major source of savings.
“LeanLogistics helped us integrate the transportation of our various companies to leverage the strength and best practices as a unified business unit.” VP Supply Chain
LeanTMS gives focused transportation control by centralizing processes without having to relocate individual workers. Transportation team members from different facilities have the same view through LeanTMS without being physically located at the same facility. Additional capabilities of LeanLogistics LeanTMS include: • • • • • • •
Centralize transportation management and control Integrate business data for visibility and efficiency of scale Standardize and automate transportation processes Share best practices among companies Expedite the payment process with WebSettle® Automate scheduling and analysis of on-time records with LeanAppoint™ Execute electronic RFPs, overall freight contracts and creating “what-if” scenarios with LeanSource®
LeanTMS IS A SCALABLE TRANSPORTATION SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL ROLLOUT ®
Value Delivered
With LeanLogistics LeanTMS, four standalone companies were merged into one cohesive business unit, gaining scalability, flexibility, collaboration and visibility. The increase in data visibility provides them a much better understanding of transportation cost, allowing calculation of the true transportation spend by customer, case or product grouping to gain substantial savings. In addition, transportation data visibility through LeanTMS gives them the ability to analyze new opportunities for growth. The company sees significant benefits with LeanDex® providing lane benchmarks, and LeanSource providing electronic procurement bids, especially with intermodal opportunities identified. In addition, the company streamlines payment processes with WebSettle, saving manpower and making suppliers happier with quicker payments. Continued benefits include: •
Increased visibility of data between companies and facilities
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Improved collaboration among facilities and suppliers
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Increased efficiencies of the transportation team
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Increased flexibility to centralize
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control without centralizing people
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Enhanced data analysis to assist the growth of the business
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Adopted best transportation practices to gain efficiencies
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