16. Automotive, a strategic market for Geodis
• AUTOMOTIVE is a strategic sector for Geodis and one of its core
business market line among 4 (High-Tech, Retails, Industry and
Automotive)
• The AUTOMOTIVE success of Geodis is based on:
– full customized and added value solutions for Automotive customers with specific
IT, quality system and operational means
– a dedicated corporate organisation within Geodis Solutions (commerce and
engineering)
– specialized Business units and numerous sites full dedicated to Automotive activities
(warehousing, cross docking, transport and groupage services)
• Geodis is one of the strategic partners of key automotive actors as
Robert
Bosch, Renault, PSA, Ford, Valeo, Faurecia, Delphi, Inergy, Michelin,…
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17. Geodis quality policy
• One of Geodis competitive advantage is its well-known level of service
quality for FTL, LTL and groupage deliveries (for example, thanks to this
very high level of quality, Geodis was designed VIP partner by VALEO ). This
high quality services is the result of Geodis’ strong quality policy and of
all the operational business units’ involvement.
• All Geodis sites, platforms, delivery and logistics centers are certified to
ISO 9001 V2000 Quality Certification among Transport and Logistics
organizations.
• The performance resulting from such quality policy will enable Geodis to
actively contribute to your strong industrial performance.
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18. Geodis automotive experience by activity
Inbound transportation including cross-dock
Study of the existing transport plans in order to optimize the transport costs
Continuous improvement of productivity in collaboration with our customer ’s logistics and
purchasing departments
Improvement of transport costs by volume effects and consolidation of the different sites’
flows
Some examples :
Customers Activities Sites
FTL Rakovnik
(Czech Republic)
FTL Amiens
Cross-dock (France)
Cross-dock Trnava
European distribution (Slovakia)
Pitesti (Romania)
Rail
Moscow (Russia)
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19. Business case : Inbound transportation
• Site: Trnava (Slovakia)
Services offered
• Transportation plan design according to FAURECIA
sourcing and MRP (Materials requirement planning)
• 100% Inbound flows management (pick
up, consolidation, transport, ...)
• Cross docking operations for consolidation
• Flows track & trace and suppliers monitoring
• Unloading and loading handling operations within
FAURECIA
• Returnable packaging management (flows track &
trace and monitoring)
Key figures Suppliers
• Collection from 30 suppliers
• JIT delivery: 20 trucks per day
•
Inbound flows
Key factors of success Returns of
empty
packaging Plant
• 3 different flows organization principles: direct
flow, milk run, consolidated flows
• Geodis resident in Faurecia’s plant JIT delivery
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21. Business case : advanced warehouse management
…
Services offered • Site: Fontaine (France)
One advanced warehouse
to supply 2 production sites Transport services
Deliveries : daily / several times a day
(Sochaux and Mulhouse) Management of emergencies (aircraft, helicopter, taxi)
Specialized distribution
Inter-site distribution
Storage of components and Take-back of empty
sub-components containers at production line
Key figures Reception, quality control and entry into stock
Inventory and outstanding stock management
Reception and integration of orders
12.000 sqm Order picking and aspect control
Suppliers quality management
23 customers
300 references
Key factors of success Customization / assembly :
Reception, quality control and storage
Mutualisation of the means on 3 sites of components
Inventory and outstanding stock
management
(Fontaine, Etupes and Ottmarsheim) Information flows
Reception and order picking
Aspect control
Reception and processing of
Car manufacturer assembly line production delivery orders via EDI
Dispatch notice
Assembly and customization operations
Kitting
Sequenced sourcing or kanban at
Updating of stock
scheduled according to orders production line
(colour, interior, series…)
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22. Geodis automotive experience by activity
Spare parts distribution
GEODIS comprehensive network (example: GEODIS CALBERSON & FRANCE EXPRESS
networks in France)
Dedicated means with Day and Night deliveries, emergency deliveries and stock
replenishments
Added value warehousing solutions
Returnable packaging flows management
Some examples :
Customers Activities Countries
National & European France
distribution
National distribution Malaysia
National distribution France
Warehousing Rome
Distribution (Italy)
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23. Business case : spare parts distribution
• Site: Roma (Italy)
Services offered
Warehousing and distribution
Key figures
5.200 sqm of storage
20 docks to load trucks
13.000 SKU’s
14 roundtrips
85 delivery points
Key factors of success
Solution based on a PDA with the following connection capacities :
Bar code scanning to scan the parcels labels at each delivery point
RFID scanning for reading/writing of each dealer RFID Tag
Gprs and Umts mobile phone connection of the PDA
Uploading of the delivery data in real-time through the mobile network
Identification of each driver and delivery point ; transfer of the electronic
packing list in the RFID tag of the dealer
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