THIRD PARTY
LOGISTICS
AUTOMOTIVE &
MANUFACTURING
Our history and backgroundmeans that we can offer truly
unique and fully integrated solutions tomanaging and
controlling your inventory from despatch of product
wherever in the world to receipt at your customers.
Within our Automotive solutionwe offer full kitting and
sequencingmodules that allows you full flexibility in
managing your inventory levels, we can offer an inventory
management solution to support anymethod of manufacture
and supply andmany of our consultants have significant
experience in leanmanufacturing techniques and therefore
are able to quickly understand your requirements and offer
unique solutions. A full range of lineside replenishment
techniques are supported based around customer takt,
reorder levels and critical levels with automatic escalation
systems that can be tailored to your individual requirements.
Changes within the Automotive Industry, particularly during
launches, are always a challenge, and one that we have
extensive experience of. Again, we are flexible in our range
of solutions, we have our ownmodule for managing BOMs
and we can also integrate to your existing systems, offering
simple interfaces that will mean that you are always operating
to the latest BOM release.
We recognised early onwith our first 3PL customers coming
on board that this industry sector had significantly different
drivers to other industries.
With a low barrier to entry into their marketplace 3PLs can
no longer just compete on price alone. In amodernworld
they have to be giving value added service to their customers
to stand out amongst the crowd. 3PL is all about driving
efficiency and space utilisationwhilemaximising charging
potential. So using our basic company ethos of developing
in partnership with our customers we evolved the system
to help them succeed.
Think warehouse supports 3PLs in their day to day business
by tracking andmonitoring stock life cycles, so by simply
booking in a piece of stock with our easy to use gun based
ARPmodule the charging life cycle is begun. Each time
an item is booked in, picked or despatched the system
silently records the transactionwithout disturbing the user or
expecting them to have intimate customer contract charging
knowledge. Once you’re ready the simple charging interface
reports back to you exactly what you need to invoice for with
a number of intelligent features built in such as minimum
number of days or week or part thereof charging calculations.
Charging was not the only area we enhanced for our 3PL
customers, in addition the system allows your customer’s
access through a browser based interface allowing them
features such as a live view of their stock and the ability
to raise picks directly on the system. Of course all of this
access is controlled by you as you define each external
user’s security clearance.
