AudAxis

A diagnosis in 6 points:

• The relevance of marketing for your global logistics.

Our expertise is to make sure that your transport and logistics policy is perfectly suited to your market in terms of:

• Transport: means of transport chosen, delivery, driving personnel, level of service. The transporter is the ambassador of your company to the client.

• Logistics: location of your warehouse design, level of service.

Confirmation that your competitors do not have real strengths compared to yours. This research should lead to the definition of asset marketing differentiation able to provide a real competitive advantage.

• Positioning your global logistics manager

Global Logistics is a transversal activity in your business because this activity is related to most other activities (such as production, trade, finance, etc).

Your global logistics manager should benefit from the skills and authority necessary to enforce the prerequisites for the right price and at a satisfactory level of quality.

• The information system of your global logistics

Our expertise helps ensure that organizing your data can effectively manage your supply chain and assure a maximal use the software for your business transportation and logistics

• The quality of your global logistics

This chapter aims to make a point about the quality of your transport and storage services. Which is the level of service, what are the costs of non quality, which are the procedures used and are they adequate and sufficient? Finally, what are the indicators that you have established in order to measure customer satisfaction, your internal performance or to enhance your company's image externally, to better sell and, internally, to motivate your staff? Which is the level of training and competence of your staff?

It is also important to review the security of your cargo by analyzing the sources of potential loss of your goods during the logistics and transportation process and the possible causes of damage.

• The relevance of logistics and transportation forecasts

Which is the level of reliability of your forecast, is it sufficient for a short-term plan for your transportation and logistics business and a medium term to facilitate the negotiation with your subcontractors, even with your customers?

• Optimizing your logistics

The approach here is threefold:

1) If you have adequate means, are they optimized for cost-saving measures: choice of packaging, choice of vehicle types, time frames, pallet optimization, load optimization, optimization rounds, invoice checking (transport-billing), optimization of warehouse receipts, storage, order picking etc.

2) If you outsource your transportation activity. This is not the time to question your contractual relationship, redefine modes of operation and renegotiate your price. Should we not define a specification of your requirements, make a tender and help you make the right choice

3) Will you review your purchase policy for a direct one or will you outsource your supplies purchase changing Incoterms specified in your relationships with your providers. This may be an important factor of standardization of your transport and therefore a source of significant savings.