Whether transportation is upstream, inter-sites or downstream, you want to:

• Maximize customer satisfaction
• Reduce your carbon footprint
• Increase your sales hedge and services offered
• Optimise your transportation costs
• Simplify transportation management

TRAKER supports you in 4 areas

MASTER PLANS & ORGANISATION

• Benchmarking and definition of the transportation services offered
• Redesign of transportation plans
• Definition of assembly and loading plans (Round trips, Triangulations, Vehicle capacities, etc.)
• Use of freight consolidation intermediary sites(Remote inventories, Hubs, etc.)
• Make-or-Buy assessment
• Assessment of alternative means (Inland waterways, Rail, Electric, Tractor-trailer, Double decking, etc.)
• Implementation of international transportation flows
• Scaling of transportation department organisation

TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS

• Optimisation of route plans
• Redesign of rules for calculating loads and transportation orders
• Review of rules and processes for loading vehicles
• Improvement of follow-up on deliveries
• Increasing the reliability of the billing control process and implementation of pre-billing

TRANSPORTATION PURCHASES

• Review of the panel of carriers (Reduction, Geographical extension, Redistribution) and optimisation of purchasing conditions
• Management of targeted calls for bids
• Benchmarking of fee schedules and invoice verification
• Auditing of the quality of transportation services
• Assessment of appropriateness of 4PL

STEERING TOOLS

• Modernisation of the TMS
• Support in the selection of a TMS
• Development of specific management tools (Carrier selection by flow, Invoice verification, etc.)
• Implementation of solutions for tracking deliveries
• Implementation of transportation control systems

From the storage of components and semi-finished goods to the distribution of finished products, you want to:

• Maximize your customer service level (OTIF)
• Manage your costs and your productivity
• Adapt your business to market changes
• Rationalise your inventories
• Increase flexibility

TRAKER supports you in 4 areas

MASTER PLANS & ORGANISATION

• Benchmark and define the logistics services offered
• Redesign the master plans for supply and distribution
• Macro-scaling of logistics platforms (Location, Surface areas, Layout, Organisation, Level of automation, etc.)
• Make-or-Buy assessment
• Definition of the inventory restocking and warehouse transit strategy
• Determination of the scale of the logistics workforce

LOGISTICS OPERATIONS

• Detailed design of logistics platforms
• (Layout, Equipment, Processes, WMS, etc.)
• Targeted optimisation of operational processes
• (Reception, Placing in storage, Preparation, Packaging, etc.)
• Improvement of support functions
• (Order scheduling, Inventory management, etc.)
• Review of inventory layout and management rules
• Redesign of inventory procedures

LOGISTICS PURCHASES

• Drafting of logistics specifications
• Management of logistics calls for bids
• Benchmarking of fee schedules and invoice verification
• Auditing of the quality of logistics services
• Evaluation of automated solutions and call for bids from suppliers/ integrators

STEERING TOOLS

• Modernisation of the WMS
• Support in the selection of a new WMS
• Evaluation of tracking/control solutions (RFID, Voice-activated picking, Pick-to-light, Put-to-light, etc.) and call for bids from suppliers/integrators
• Implementation of logistics control systems
• Use of visual communications supports and visual aids

Give yourself a supply chain that generates long-term competitiveness

You want to: 

• Define your supply chain strategy and the conditions of its implementation.
• Maximise the efficiency and level of professionalism of your supply chain employees.
• Guarantee the success of your transformation projects.

TRAKER supports you in 3 areas

DIAGNOSTIC

• Consolidation and benchmarking of supply chain KPI
• Assessment of supply chain maturity by area
• (Processes, Organisation, Tools and performance monitoring)
• Targeted analysis of performance levels and of the operating mode by activity (Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Transportation, Customer service, etc.)
• Identification of medium/long-term transformation and short-term optimisation levers
• Simulation of potential for savings (Customer service, Costs, Lead times, Inventories, Productivity, Flexibility, Sales, etc.)

DESIGN & STUDY

• Adaptation of the business plan and alignment of supply chain performance objectives
• Definition of the target organisation of the supply chain
• Design of the manufacturing master plan
• Design of the logistics and transportation master plan
• Improvement of processes and tools of the target supply chain
• Design of the global supply chain control system

TRANSFORMATION

• Design of the implementation programme and governance model
• Project control and monitoring of results/deliverables
• Team leading and change management
• Coaching and provision of targeted expertise to teams
• Leading training-actions

You want to modernise your Planning, Sales Management or After-Sales Service to:

• Control your customer service level
• Rationalise your inventories
• Maximise your productivity
• Increase your flexibility and resilience

TRAKER supports you in 3 areas

PLANNING

• Redesign or adaptation of your planning guidelines
• (MRP2, DDMRP, etc.)
• Definition of a PFEP
• (Plan for every part) strategy per SKU
• Implementation of a S&OP (Sales and operation planning) process for production and/or logistics
• Harmonisation and alignment of services offered to customers
• Design of Planning, Sales Management and After-Sales services

PROCESSES

• Review of forecasting tools and processes
• Optimisation of S&OP and MPS
• Review of planning parameters by layer (Horizon, Time-frame, Frequency, Load levelling/capacity smoothing rules, etc.)
• Review of inventory management parameters
• Optimisation of Sales Management and After-Sales processes

STEERING TOOLS

• Modernisation of ERP functions involving planning and processing customer requests
• Development of tools to simulate and optimise load/capacity
• Implementation of EDI for customer orders
• Implementation of control systems for planning performance (OTD, Hedge inventories, Productivity, etc.)
• Implementation of control systems for customer service performance (OTD, Bill-backs, Credit notes, Litigation, etc.)

You want to improve your purchasing and procurement activities to:

• Reduce the complete cost of your direct and indirect purchases
• Rationalise your raw materials and components inventories
• Improve the availability of the raw materials and components used for manufacturing
• Maximise the productivity of your procurement officers

TRAKER supports you in 3 areas

MASTER PLAN & ORGANISATION

• Definition of the purchasing strategy by segment and implementation of savings plans
• Review of the panel of suppliers (Reduction, Geographical extension, Redistribution)
• and optimisation of purchasing conditions
• Reduction of the number of active references
• Redesign of the procurement logistics master plan: flows of orders and physical flows
• Review of procurement officers’ organisation
• Development of wider cooperation with suppliers to secure supplies

PROCESSES

• Definition of a target procurement model per article
• (VMI, Supplier forecasts, Kanban, Order point, DDMRP, MRP, etc.)
• Optimisation of procurement parameters per article
• (Safety stock, Lead time, Order minimum/multiples, Economic order quantity, etc.)
• Review and setting of guidelines for logistics conditions per supplier
• (Incoterms, Lead times, Minimum order quantities, Packaging upon receipt, etc.)
• Optimisation of the procurement process (Calculation of requirements, Order, Follow-up)
• Guidelines and training for procurement officers
• Targeted projects to improve supplier performance
• Targeted disposal of component/raw materials inventories

STEERING TOOLS

• Modernisation of ERP functions to calculate requirements and place orders
• Implementation of tools for sharing requirements forecasts with suppliers
• Implementation of EDI for supplier orders
• Implementation of supplier control systems
• Implementation of tools to monitor procurement officers’ performance

You want to adapt your production activities (Manufacturing, Assembling and packaging) to:

• Manage your service rate (OTD)
• Maximise the productivity of your operators and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Rationalise your work-in-process
• and your inventories

TRAKER supports you in 3 areas

MASTER PLAN & ORGANISATION

• Definition of industrial strategy
• Make-or-Buy assessment
• Design or redesign of workshop layout
• Design of flows in workshops
• Review of the operators’ organisation and management
• Redesign or adaptation of the scheduling model

PROCESSES

• Adaptation of scheduling parameters and rules (Horizon, Lot sizes, Cycle times, Algorithm, etc.)
• Review of maintenance plans
• Optimisation of operational processes
• Management of lean manufacturing projects (VSM, 5S, SMED, KAIZEN, KANBAN, etc.)

STEERING TOOLS

• Modernisation or upgrading of the IT system (CAPM, MES, CAMM, etc.)
• Implementation of production control systems
• Use of visual communications supports and visual aids