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Limelco

Business growth & production extension: impact on warehouse and logistic operations & costs

Company profile

  • Major Belgian contract filler of milk & dairy products
  • Turnover: € 80 000 000
  • Profitable: Yes
  • Employees: 140
  • 1 Plant in Belgium & 2 warehouses: 1outsourced and 1 own operated

Company challenge

  • Work out warehouse strategy taking into account the extension of the production capacity
  • Create flexibility and agility in a demand driven market
  • Maintain profitability in a strong competitive market situation

Our challenge

  • Propose a warehouse strategy that is aligned with the corporate strategy without jeopardizing service and costs
  • Make a realistic feasibility study on all possible warehouse solutions on-site and compare them with outsourcing solutions
  • Define the best of class handling solutions within these possibilities

Our approach

  • Create transparency in the logistic flows
  • Benchmark the costs of the outsourced logistic activities
  • Make an activity based costing model for the future scenario’s
  • Deliver a feasibility study taking into account all necessary elements for making the correct decisions

The results

  • Feasibility study with clear scenario’s for absorbing the future growths
  • Action plan for instant cost reduction of outsourced logistic activities


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