1. SERVING THE WORLD’S RAILWAYS
A high performance supply chain. Guaranteed
Supply Chain Services
Overhaul & Repair
Services
Consultancy Products
Technical
Support Services
Manufacturing
Services
Product Innovation
& Technology
Supply Chain
Services
2. They say your supply chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. They’re right. But it’s not just brute
strength that delivers ultimate performance.
Innovation and flexibility are essential too - the
creativity to meet fresh challenges and the agility to
integrate new solutions.
At Unipart Rail we understand this. And for more than 20
years we’ve partnered numerous international clients to
deliver exceptionally high levels of material availability, bespoke
designed solutions and a highly valued service. Supporting up
to 99% parts availability levels.
The Rail Industry is inherently complex. The benefit of
partnering Unipart Rail is simple. A high performance supply
chain. Guaranteed.
Key Services:
- Total Product Supply Package
including Procurement Services
- Depot Stores Management
- Logistics and Distribution
- Inventory Management
Demand Forecasting
- Worksite and Consigned Inventories
- Fleet Aftermarket Services
- Specialist Product Services
- Commissioning Spares
- Consolidated deliveries
and bespoke kitting
3. Supply chains don’t manage themselves. Complex in their very nature
only a carefully constructed, expertly managed supply chain can be
guaranteed to deliver end to end results.
Total Product Supply
including Procurement Service
The Unipart Rail team not only manages significant inventories
but runs specialist software and distribution solutions. The
flexibility and capacity to make your supply chain operate with
ultimate efficiency.
Only expert procurement will deliver the assets you need,
when you need them, where you need them - a specialist
Unipart discipline. A specialist discipline honed over years
working with the world’s largest, most respected rail networks.
Tested, transparent methods, rock solid governance and
flexible cost effective services that deliver proven results.
Total Products Supply Chain packages - instant availability,
innovation, technical and operational excellence and
rapid flexibility. No breaks, no bottlenecks, no inefficient,
unnecessary expense, just your most challenging end-to-end
supply chain requirements met - head on.
Our Service Features
Product range:
- Leading stockist and distributor of an extensive range
of Rail industry Products
- Over 70,000 material stock-heads to support industry
peaks and troughs
- 24/7, 365 days availability
Independent route to market:
- Representing 700 European and UK Blue Chip
Original Equipment Manufacturers and Suppliers
- Working with suppliers to develop innovative
new product solutions
- Breaking bulk and smoothing demand
Flexible range of customer solutions:
- Next day national UK delivery mechanisms
- Consigned inventories, total component management
and kitting
- Planning and scheduling complex material packages
for Project blockades and milestones
Your Operational Benefits
- Cost effective transactional processes with a single supplier
- Reduced inventory costs/holding
- Guaranteed compliance with industry standards
and approvals
- Comprehensive catalogues and product technical support
ensuring right product first time
4. Stores Management
Efficient Stores Management is
no simple matter. Unless perfectly
optimised, even the most tightly
marshalled of operations can fail to
deliver true value to your business.
Not here.
Using the latest technology, lean processes and by working
hand in hand with your stores specialists, we keep stores
delivering to rail projects.
Customer specific stock profiling, product identification
condition assessment, and qualified people that turns
complexity into transparency - confusion into clarity.
Fixed stores permanently manned, or project-based services
that we set-up and decommission for only when you need it.
Our Service Features
People:
- Experienced stores staff
- Continuing competency development
- Empowered engaged team
- Access to an experienced resource pool
Materials management:
- Customer specific stock profiling
- Manage inventory levels – Reorder point/maximum
- Just in time (JIT) replenishment
- Stock management systems
- Hazardous materials storage
Facilities:
- Site transformation – workflow and layout design
- Storage solution review and recommendations/proposals
- Stock location planning and right size
- Permanent and temporary stores
- Set-up, resources and decommissioned to suit your
business and flex with your project commitments
Your Operational Benefits
- Continuous improvement and safety first culture
- Optimised and simplified supply chain
- Reduced stockholding costs
- Kitting services
- Clean, quality store designed to perform
- Materials security
- HSQE support
5. Logistics and Distribution
Logistics is a serious business. It’s vital that your materials are
exactly where they need to be, when your teams need them
there. Miscalculations can be expensive, resources standing idle
waiting for materials. That’s where our Logistics and Distribution
service steps up. A super-efficient warehousing and distribution
provision that takes the inefficiency and the waste out of rail
logistics. Optimum material availability... assured.
Our Service Features
- Warehousing and delivery for a range and volume
of materials agreed with you
- Daily logistic service sites across the UK
- Tailored term logistics and distribution agreement ensuring
controlled costs
- Governance and control through instant management reports
Your Operational Benefits
- Maximisation of product availability for rail materials
- Reduced transactional costs as outsourced to a rail logistics
and distribution expert
- Hassle free order, logistics and distribution management as
effective alignment IT management systems with customers
6. Effective inventory management is
all about control. Integrated control
of systems, people and logistics.
Control of accurate, timely inventory
information. From initial customer
demand all the way through to final
delivery we take that control.
Unipart Rail - operational processes and deep systemic insights
that guarantee stock availability and service level achievement
throughout even the most complex of supply chains.
Our Service Features
Rail Material System (RMS2) and
Unipart Inventory System (UiS):
- Designed to bring together the key aspects
of delivering sustained inventory performance
Demand recording:
- Assess and ensure the demand is captured at
the appropriate level to provide a future forecast
- Interrogate data to determine and analyse both
the sources and timeframes of demand
- Generate forecasts and propose new reorder
points and min/max levels
Inventory policy setting:
- Set the overall policy using speed and cost of materials
as the grouping mechanism
- Consistent and accurate measures of stock
turn and availability
Managing the materials:
- All materials will be reviewed by Unipart Rail at defined
frequencies and by exception will be revised
Your Operational Benefits
- Control and reduce overall cost where materials are
particularly inexpensive and the costs of placing the order
outweigh the stock levels
- Reduce poor supplier performance
- Deliver the target service level with minimum
investment in stock
- Proven, capable and robust Inventory Management System
- Accurate information exchange, and up-to-date information
to make best decisions and recommendations
- Sophisticated and proven techniques to maintain optimum
range of stock
- All of the data is captured and recorded, and used to provide
optimum future benefits
Inventory Management
7. As a new train manufacturer or maintenance provider you know all too well
that a high level of spares availability is essential. Your efficiency and ultimately
your reputation relies on it.
You’ll know too that as well as sufficient spares, you need great
value for money - costs count.
That’s why Unipart Rail provides a comprehensive tailor made
logistics service. A full spectrum package that secures your
Supply Chain from end to end.
Put simply… all the fleet spares you need, when you need
them, where you need them, at prices that make sense.
Our Service Features
- Development of initial spares packages with access to
comprehensive data and a wealth of rail experience
- Flexible service options bespoke to customers’ needs
- Dedicated warehouse solution with stock segregation
- Daily depot deliveries and 24/7x365 day emergency cover
- Forecasting and inventory management supported by Unipart
Rail’s systems and processes, proven to deliver industry
leading levels of performance
- Warranty and repairable asset management to ensure high
levels of cost control and stock availability
- Professional procurement and engineering services
supported by comprehensive systems and supplier
management processes
- Order book management with integrated systems and portals
- Depot stock management to provide a fully integrated service
- Introduction of Lean principles and project management
support through Unipart Expert Practitioners
- Engaged teams providing excellent levels of customer service
- Dedicated Business Unit with complete focus on the
customer’s requirements
- Unipart Way tools and techniques applied daily to meet and
exceed service level requirements
- A “One Team” approach with customers to align strategic
aims and operational objectives
- Cradle to Grave support options
- Systems and processes to manage early life fleet support post
introduction to service
- Life cycle cost analysis and product development
- Obsolescence management
- Risk management at franchise / contract break points
Your Operational Benefits
- Optimised capital investment in initial spares
- Successful introduction of new fleets into operational service
- High levels of stock availability to support an efficient
maintenance operation
- High levels of train availability and reliability
- Cash benefit through optimised inventory
- Cost benefit through optimised procurement and
supplier management
- Cost and performance benefit through the introduction of
Lean principles and continuous improvement
- Enhanced image and industry reputation providing future
growth opportunities for your business
Fleet Aftermarket Services
8. We know that overhead line is a complex part of any project - whether it’s
new installations, regular maintenance or a complete upgrade.
Specialist Product Services -
Overhead Line - OLE
We also know that you face a host of other challenges like
space for stores, managing the suppliers, and simply ensuring
that the right materials are where you need them, when you
need them.
This is why we’ve set-up a dedicated team of Technical,
Procurement, Contracts and Customer Service experts to
manage your OLE requirements - start to finish. And they’ve
all been trained to OLEC 1 so understand not just your
logistics needs, but also the technical principles of your
OLE requirements.
In addition, we are able to offer a range of propositions
including pre-assembly of Series 2 Cantilevers, a range of
OLE Materials pre-kitted to your exact project requirements.
Our Supply Chain expertise means that we will use our
collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure that all your
materials are ready for when you need them.
And we also know that problems will arise and you’ll need
extra materials urgently.
No problem.
We’ll do everything we can to find the materials and get them
to you to complete your possession.
Peace of mind.
Products are just the start of our service - but they are at the
heart of it. The OLE range covers:
- Series 2 Cantilevers
- Bonding Clamps Brackets
- Droppers
- Earthing
- Fasteners
- Foundation Components
- Insulators
- Neutral Section
- Section Insulators
- Isolation
- Pipes and Tubes
- Power Transformers
- Large Small Part Steel
- Support Registration
- Switches
- Wedges
- Splices
- Keys Locks
- Tools
Consumables
9. Worksite Consigned
Inventories
There’s a reason that Rail project contractors the world over turn to Unipart
Rail to manage their onsite rail inventories. 15 years successful deployment of
more than 300 site operations tells you we know exactly what we’re doing.
From specially designed storage layouts, delivered and
installed to dedicated inventory control and agreed material
replenishment systems - we’ve everything you need to make
sure that your project has everything it needs.
And as you only pay-on-use, you eliminate stock-holding
and transaction costs.
Our Service Features
Ease of use:
- Customer specific stock profiling
- Automated replenishment based on agreed levels
- Agreed delivery times/customer specified inventories
Control Systems:
- Unipart Rail supplied “E-store”
remote warehouse control software
- QR/Barcode issue receipt technologies
- All products offer full compliance with industry approvals
Facilities:
- Racking or storage units delivered offloaded/built at site
- Storage units fully racked with Plug Play power lighting
- Mobile stores and personnel
Your Operational Benefits
- Reduced inventory costs
- Accelerated distribution timescales
- Immediate customer access
- Access to proven logistics operations
- Reduced transaction costs
- Guaranteed compliance with standards
- Demand planning and forecasting - reducing
manufacturing costs
10. Commissioning Spares
It’s never easy accurately predicting
exactly how many material spares
you will need when commissioning
Rail projects. That’s why we offer
“Use or Return”.
You tell us how many spares you think you will need
- we’ll kit and deliver them.
Each kit is tracked to serial number, delivered sealed
and handed over with all supporting quality and safety
documentation.
Any items you don’t need - we’ll collect.
Get what you pay for. Pay for what you get.
Our Service Features
Materials:
- Unique kits to meet any commissioning phase
- Can include core components and all ancillaries/consumables
- Designed in conjunction with customer engineers
- Static or mobile commission spares stores
Control Systems:
- 100% inspection prior to shipping
- All items tracked to serial number level
- All products offer full compliance with industry approvals
Tailored Commercial Flexibility:
- Standard charge for spares kit service
- All materials “Use or Return”
- Customer owned assets can be included within kits
Your Operational Benefits
- Eliminated the need for “just in case” materials
- Eliminated post-project surplus
- Reduced material handling
- Reduced Procurement/acquisition cost
- Eliminated risk of insufficient spares
- Ensured compliance with industry standards
- Ensured asset traceability
11. Consolidated Deliveries
and Bespoke Kitting
So. You’ve ordered all the materials you need but they are coming at different times
from different suppliers. And then once they’ve arrived, they need to be sorted and
put together in different ways to suit your work timetable. What a lot of work.
We understand that you want your deliveries as simple as
possible. Why not have all the equipment arrive in the same
consignment? Further, what about if we kitted them so all
the materials you need are ready to use that day on specific
jobs. Simple.
We’ll also review your materials and ensure you’ve ordered
all the materials you need.
Our Service Features
Consolidated Delivery:
- All materials supplied to match project schedule requirements
- Customer driven delivery flexibility – where when
you want it
- Packaged to match customer instructions
Kits:
- Put together to meet team work packages
- Include core components and all ancillaries/consumables
- Designed in conjunction with customer engineers
Control Systems:
- Kits built by experienced personnel with industry
technical expertise
- Material can be stored and Vested prior to delivery
- Full compliance with industry product approvals - Incl.
documentation and C of C’s
Your Operational Benefits
- Eliminated the need for site inventory
- Reduced on-site installation time
- Reduced material handling
- Reduced Procurement/acquisition cost
- Eliminated pack-size waste
- Ensured compliance with industry standards
- Ensured asset traceability
- Flexible delivery
- Uniform warranty time periods
