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Expertise: Supply Chain

For a major international Oil Company:

  • Review of secondary transport management in South Africa
  • 13% savings identified and endorsed
  • Structuring of haulier’s contracts and performance management

For a major international Cement Producer:

  • Strategic sourcing of the entire road transportation in South Africa
  • Structuring of the outsourcing relationship and of the associated contract
  • Significant savings achieved, both tangible and intangible

For a major international Cement Producer:

  • Development of an inbound and outbound transport optimisation model, based on linear programming
  • Smoothing of product supply within a highly constrained and integrated business system

For a major African Health and Beauty Care Company, based in South Africa:

  • Review of the supply chain outsourcing relationship
  • Development of the inbound logistics strategy and infrastructure

For a major international Industrial Gas Producer:

  • Full review of the road transport operations
  • Facilitation of the outsourcing contract negotiation

For a multinational Construction Material Manufacturer:

  • Diagnostic of the logistics and distribution operation, which informed the potential for direct cost savings, and the scope for operational improvements
  • Development of a revised distribution customer value proposition
  • Network structure validation using Llamasoft SupplyChainGuru
  • Value-driver modelling of yard operations, with a view to identify key improvement levers
  • Procurement of transport services and structuring of transport contracts, to deliver a saving of 19% of total transport spend
  • PMO for the implementation Electronic Proof-of-delivery

For a Multinational Liquor House of Brands:

  • Reimagining the distribution network – cutting stockholding pointy from 23 to 4 and reducing working capital accordingly
  • Modelling cost-optimal scenarios with full visibility of the detailed calculations, using MS Excel

For the Lubricants Division of an Oil Major:

  • Development of a revised distribution customer value proposition
  • Network structure validation using Llamasoft SupplyChainGuru
  • Procurement of logistics services including warehousing and secondary distribution, to deliver a saving of 15% of total transport spend

For a Multinational Cosmetics Brand House:

  • Outsourcing of hitherto in-house warehousing operations, and procurement of distribution services, which ultimately resulted in a 13% saving in logistics costs for the client