How to make your inbound supply chain leaner and greener?
Business Case
How to make your inbound supply chain leaner and greener with a full reusable packaging solution.
Company: International car manufacturer
Business sector: Automotive
Solutions: Reusable packaging
Geographical areas: Europe
Customer context
This car manufacturer was initially dealing with various one-way packaging types. This was generating packaging waste within the plants and could not guarantee the full integrity and quality of production parts.
The non-standardised and not stackable packaging was not efficient for transport (loading optimisation), storage and lineside deliveries.
Business challenges
To substantially reduce packaging waste within the plants
To standardise the inbound processes
To optimise the transportation operations
To reduce handling operations
To reduce cost: transportation & storage
To improve quality & integrity of production parts
To reduce CO2 footprint
GEFCO Solution
- Engineering and design of an optimised reusable packaging solution across a European ecosystem
- 21 plants
- 1,500 suppliers
- Change management across the Automotive ecosystem
- Local training and support to the suppliers and factories
- Supply of standardised reusable packaging: stackable and washable
- 23 M packaging delivered to the plants / year
- Empty packaging “pool” management
- Delivery according to suppliers’ orders or automatic supply upon plant’s production
- Collection of empty containers from the manufacturer’s plant
- Packaging flow monitoring by central and local GEFCO teams
- Dedicated reusable packaging contract manager
- Collaborative IT system (NETBOX): ordering, tracking, invoicing, flow and stock management
- Local support for suppliers & plants (asset auditors & account managers, multilingual customer service team)
- Strategic & operational performance review
- KPIs monitoring & continuous optimisation
- Service level
- Productivity plans
Customer Benefits
Cost and green efficiency
Kilometers/container reduction thanks to pool management concept (packaging massification and pooling, transport plan & loading optimisation)
CO2 reduction
Packaging waste removal
Health and Safety improvement: no injuries linked to carton usage
Increased standardisation and productivity within the whole ecosystem
Improved production parts integrity and therefore quality
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