LINPAC implement a ‘flexible, low cost transportation solution’ with help from 3T
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- France
- Spain
- United Kingdom
Product
- 3T Transport Management Solutions
- 3T Transport Excellence Programme
Tech Stack
- Order Tracking Systems
- Visual Interfaces for Load Management
- Parts Database
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Functional Applications - Fleet Management Systems (FMS)
- Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Applicable Industries
- Packaging
- Transportation
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
- Predictive Maintenance
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
Set up in 1959 as Lincolnshire Packaging, LINPAC has grown and evolved into a global company with offices in 29 countries and over 7,000 staff worldwide. Always eager to look for ways of maximising efficiency and minimising costs whilst maintaining customer service levels, LINPAC first approached 3T in 2005 with the brief of optimising their UK distribution operations.
The Challenge
LINPAC had realised that to maintain and grow their market share and increase profitability, fundamental changes needed to be made to their transport management. Their operation included two main distribution centres, a dedicated vehicle fleet and five satellite depots in the UK, all with their own staff, stock and vehicles. Although able to provide a high level of service, systems weren’t always efficient or flexible, with equipment quite often in the wrong place to react quickly to client needs.
The Solution
3T began to streamline the process through centralisation of stock by withdrawing from LINPAC’s satellite sites and by outsourcing the in-house fleet to carefully selected, high-quality, shared user carriers. This significantly reduced logistics operating costs for LINPAC UK. 3T also established a new nationwide delivery network with their carrier partners that allowed goods in the UK to be delivered on a next-day basis. This ensured service levels were enhanced through a flexible outsourced transport solution. In addition, 3T worked with LINPAC to implement a range of processes which included optimal transport diaries, advice on minimum order quantities, visual interfaces of upcoming loads and their present status, enabling better despatch planning, a parts database to enhance vehicle utilisation, and order tracking by status up to delivery. 3T now manage all domestic customer deliveries, ex works, export delivery and inter-site trunking between the two distribution centres.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
Airport SCADA Systems Improve Service Levels
Modern airports are one of the busiest environments on Earth and rely on process automation equipment to ensure service operators achieve their KPIs. Increasingly airport SCADA systems are being used to control all aspects of the operation and associated facilities. This is because unplanned system downtime can cost dearly, both in terms of reduced revenues and the associated loss of customer satisfaction due to inevitable travel inconvenience and disruption.
Case Study
IoT-based Fleet Intelligence Innovation
Speed to market is precious for DRVR, a rapidly growing start-up company. With a business model dependent on reliable mobile data, managers were spending their lives trying to negotiate data roaming deals with mobile network operators in different countries. And, even then, service quality was a constant concern.
Case Study
Digitize Railway with Deutsche Bahn
To reduce maintenance costs and delay-causing failures for Deutsche Bahn. They need manual measurements by a position measurement system based on custom-made MEMS sensor clusters, which allow autonomous and continuous monitoring with wireless data transmission and long battery. They were looking for data pre-processing solution in the sensor and machine learning algorithms in the cloud so as to detect critical wear.
Case Study
Cold Chain Transportation and Refrigerated Fleet Management System
1) Create a digital connected transportation solution to retrofit cold chain trailers with real-time tracking and controls. 2) Prevent multi-million dollar losses due to theft or spoilage. 3) Deliver a digital chain-of-custody solution for door to door load monitoring and security. 4) Provide a trusted multi-fleet solution in a single application with granular data and access controls.
Case Study
Vehicle Fleet Analytics
Organizations frequently implement a maintenance strategy for their fleets of vehicles using a combination of time and usage based maintenance schedules. While effective as a whole, time and usage based schedules do not take into account driving patterns, environmental factors, and sensors currently deployed within the vehicle measuring crank voltage, ignition voltage, and acceleration, all of which have a significant influence on the overall health of the vehicle.In a typical fleet, a large percentage of road calls are related to electrical failure, with battery failure being a common cause. Battery failures result in unmet service agreement levels and costly re-adjustment of scheduled to provide replacement vehicles. To reduce the impact of unplanned maintenance, the transportation logistics company was interested in a trial of C3 Vehicle Fleet Analytics.
Case Study
3M Gains Real-Time Insight with Cloud Solution
The company has a long track record of innovative technology solutions. For example, 3M helps its customers optimize parking operations by automating fee collection and other processes. To improve support for this rapidly expanding segment, 3M needed to automate its own data collection and reporting. The company had recently purchased the assets of parking, tolling, and automatic license plate reader businesses, and required better insight into these acquisitions. Chad Reed, Global Business Manager for 3M Parking Systems, says, “With thousands of installations across the world, we couldn’t keep track of our software and hardware deployments, which made it difficult to understand our market penetration.” 3M wanted a tracking application that sales staff could use to get real-time information about the type and location of 3M products in parking lots and garages. So that it could be used on-site with potential customers, the solution would have to provide access to data anytime, anywhere, and from an array of mobile devices. Jason Fox, Mobile Application Architect at 3M, upped the ante by volunteering to deliver the new app in one weekend. For Fox and his team, these requirements meant turning to the cloud instead of an on-premises datacenter. “My first thought was to go directly to the cloud because we needed to provide access not only to our salespeople, but to resellers who didn’t have access to our internal network,” says Fox. “The cloud just seemed like a logical choice.”
