Business Drivers / Challenges

• Highly complex legacy systems and environments
• Multi-modal, multi-leg operations
• Already centralised and consolidated in many areas

Solutions

• The following approach was undertaken:

1. Interviews/ data gathering workshops on current operations; future plans; corporate and IT strategy
2. Mapping to best practice operations in transport and logistics planning
3. Developing business improvement opportunities and cost savings across three future options
4. Consolidating cost savings with investments required to reach savings into a financial model

Results

• Sufficient Savings identified in three categories below to justify investment in process and systems improvement

  • Hard cash release through IT changes
  • Finance processing savings through better data
  • Operational improvement benefits from consolidated planning, improved scheduling and end to end route planning