Henkel
- Multinational company active both in the consumer and industrial sector
- Revenue €16BN +, with over 50,000 people globally
Introduced standard TMS process across all geographies
Services Used
Implementation
evolv Applications
Logistics Platform
Managed Services
Consulting & Advisory
TMS Assessment
WMS
Automated Testing
Cloud Migration
AMC
Business Drivers / Challenges
- To improve visibility into global operations
- Shared Service for transport planning and execution
- Integration to SAP – delivery and shipment interfaces
- Integration to partners and providers
- Complex mix of multi-leg, multi-stop, cross-docking and direct shipments
Solutions
- Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) deployed with no customisation
- Template developed to standardise global process and improve cost + time for a global rollout
- Interfaces built with SAP – Delivery, Shipment, Tender/Pickup notification to providers, Goods Issue
- Creation of hard and soft rules to manage restrictions on shipping chemicals
Results
- Henkel introduced standard TMS process across all geographies. The introduction of a Shared Service Centre (SSC) in Bratislava will maintain OTM and run the Bulk Planning across Europe. A second SSC is being developed in Singapore for local management of operations in APAC
- Significant cost reduction with a single TMS – improved consolidation of shipments and one standard process meaning improved efficiencies in all global operations
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