Overall objectives and requirements criteria

• Business planning and Inventory models
• Operating methodologies
• Centralisation / Decentralisation issues
• Out-source, third party or own run facilities
• Purchasing systems
• Cross docking and Flow-through
• Methodologies
• ECR strategies
• Strategic Risk Assessment and Management

Location studies

• Centre of market with respect to:
  • Customers
  • Product
  • Distribution
• Land costs
• Construction costs
• Road access
• Security
• Strategic risk
• Staff and Management availability and expertise
• Duplications
• Added costs
• Communications
• Development nodes and demographic projections

Sizing of infrastructures

Information Systems Strategy

Transportation and Physical distribution models

• Modal analysis

Physical infrastructure

• Conceptual site development
• Materials Handling concepts
• Detailed site layouts
• Building specifications
• Detailed materials handling designs
• Equipment specifications
• Equipment and building development or acquisition
• Project management and supervision

Information Systems specifications and selection

• Detail specification through to RFP
• Selection and evaluation of available solutions
• Customisation and interface specifications

Systems implementation

• Operations procedures mapping
• Parameter and table set-up
• Database build
• Product and facility information

Go live support

• Operational procedures development
• Training
• Product slotting
• Location labelling
• Management structures and staff organisation

Post operational support

• Review of strategy against criteria
• Post operational audits
• Productivity monitoring and measurement
• Labour incentive programs
• Operations and Management support

As part of ILS’ ongoing development into services and consulting to enhance the total supply chain: We have been developing skills and offering services to our clients to enhance their operations, and ensure they can achieve a world class facility. ILS has adopted certain world-class best practice benchmarks as the standards to which a facility should be measured.

Industrial Logistic Systems have also been involved in developing unique applications of different levels of technology and systems, such as:

• JIT systems to suit the local environment
• Bar-coding applications
• Radio frequency real-time control systems
• Paperless picking systems
• Labour tracking systems
• Labour management and incentive schemes
• Best practice operations control and methodologies
• Mechanised handling systems

Our focus has been to develop a total strategy and system that incorporates various management and materials handling components, which have been combined to optimise on the strengths and weaknesses of the labour force, production environment and quality requirements.

Industrial Logistic Systems feels that with our vast experience and understanding of your business, we would be in an ideal position to assist any client in developing the new operations and systems suited to their particular environment.

We would be able to assist from the planning stage right through to implementation and commissioning the facilities.

Strategic areas for future growth of ILS are:

• Expansion further into the E-Commerce fulfillment logistics.
• Movements up the supply chain into purchasing and inventory optimisation.
• Movements down the supply chain into outsource management expertise in operational best practice maintenance.

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