Craig Coffey “Improving Efficiencies by Connecting to Our Logistics Service Providers”
1. Improving efficiencies by connecting to our
logistics service providers
1. Who is Afton?
2. What is our project with Elemica?
3. How are we completing the project?
3. Reassurance That Comes With Experience
Formed in 1924 as the Ethyl
Gasoline Corporation
Newmarket Corporation
formed in July 2004
1924 Present
Afton Chemical has been a key player
in the additive industry
for more than 90 years.
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Connect to
Carriers
Schedule pick-
ups at plants
Track
shipments/yr by
various modes
Interface with
WarehousesIn order to --
Improve
efficiencies &
control
freight spend
18. Company Confidential
Key objectives – gaining alignment
Objective
Develop a global standard
for creating and
maintaining customer
master data
Measure
- Centralized team
established to
manage/control
customer master
data
- provide customer
set-up form
Target
Team
established and
100% new
customers set-
up as per new
process
19. Benefits – outside and inside the company
Outside Afton
Customer
• Order commitment and confidence in supply
• Order tracking and post manufacture visibility plant-to-plant
Raw material and logistics service suppliers
• Raw material ordering and commitment based on forward looking fixed
schedules (not just past order patterns)
Inside Afton
Sales & Marketing
• Better information on open and available capacity
• Clearer process for use of ‘exception’ manufacturing. (Rush orders or
non standard supply.)
Finance
• Freight costs and accruals
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20. Company Confidential
Risk type Likelihood Seriousness Comment
Resource
availability
M M Resources taken for other
projects; would require additional
time and/or delay to project
delivery and/or reduced scope
Resistance to
change
M H Users do not accept the new
functionality or processes;
continuous dialogue and
management support; Sauget
highest concern
Functional
issue
L M Proven technology with standard
processes; would require manual
workaround and additional
resources
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