COMMERCIAL LOGISTICS

Modern market has several key features to deal with: customer fragmentation, wide customer geographic distribution, numbers of product variants, strategic increasing importance of after sale services (technical assistance or spare parts).

For, finished goods and spare parts distribution charge reflect on:

product cost, including transportation and distributive costs and still stock handling all along the network
delivery time, including requested time to move goods and spare parts from plant to customer
service quality, depending on packaging and transportation, thoroughness and clarity of delivery documentation, avalaibility of timeless and precise information about commodities location

The analysis of these points brings important improving opportunities.

PRAGMATA owns capabilities ripened during projects concerning commercial logistics:

rationalization of distribution network: type, number and placement of peripheral warehouses as well as appraisal of supplier opportunities
review of packaging and transportation modalities
distribution planning and scheduling by defining material management criterias in the main warehouse or in the peripheral ones as well as redesigning methods to replenish the latters
automation of customer orders collection: choice and set up of IT systems and organizational procedures to give the sales force and customers timeless and right information about products availability (nevertheless automatically receiving their order)