Rise to new challenges...
To increase sales volumes and to optimise product availability costs, trade players have to professionalise their in-house administration, reduce the cost of logistics operations, and improve their exchanges with other companies.
But that is not enough anymore! Distributors, logistics service providers and industrial firms have to face new challenges that come with the globalisation of the economy.
Success now requires co-operative solutions where pooling means and resources adds extra economic efficiency. Generix Group is a forerunner of this new model: our solutions are named "collaborative business".
... alone or together
With Generix Group's collaborative business solutions, companies can easily access functions allowing them to implement pooling and collaboration strategies with their customers, partners or suppliers: they can then efficiently reduce their costs and rapidly develop their sales. Depending on our customers' needs or organisational methods, our solutions are available as software or in On Demand SaaS mode.
Co-operation and pooling strategies: illustration
The rapid deployment of Consolidation and Collaboration Centres illustrates the strength of co-operation and pooling strategies now implemented by collaborative commerce players.
[... In concrete terms, it involves pooling warehouses between several suppliers, and handing over its operation to a logistics provider. Upstream, industrial flows are shared too, which means that full truck loads are delivered to the warehouse. The service provider consolidates stock and pools pallets in line with orders (...) Delivered to the distributor's regional platforms, deliveries are broken up to shops using the cross-docking method: goods are moved from goods-in docks to departure docks, with a brief journey through the warehouse...]
(source: LSA, article by Florent Maillet: "Carrefour deploys its consolidation warehouses" 19/11/ 2009) To read the article (French website)
