GETTING THE APPROACH RIGHT

Flexibility

Managing distribution is about having the correct products in the correct quantities and the correct quality in the right place at the right time. It’s about having the right information attached to the delivery and made available to the supply chain. With a short business horizon, perhaps two to three years, the material handling systems you have in place need to be flexible to adapt to changes in your business requirements. With Vanderlande’s modular solutions, there is no need to invest in the often awkward, expensive exercise of customisation. This is evident in standardised concepts like ERP and WMS (which can nowadays be implemented in a very straightforward manner), and standard IT system interfaces (which can be seamlessly integrated into your own system).Vanderlande’s approach to systems creates the perfect match with your business processes and requirements, giving them all the flexibility to adapt to future business developments.

Seeing the whole picture

Distribution systems can be approached from a cost or service point of view, and the approach you take can have a major impact on your basic solution. While a cost approach may inhibit your functionalities, a service focus takes account of the way you control your distribution process, the information it provides and requires and how the organisation around it is built up.