Warehouse performance

Flash warehouse audit

Our warehouse projects often begin with a Flash warehouse audit to assess operational performance and benchmark it against industry best practices. These audits help us identify inefficiencies and allow us to propose and plan both Quick Wins and significant improvements. The goal is to enhance service quality, reduce costs, and improve the work environment by leveraging innovative digital solutions.

A warehouse offering structured into 6 phases

1 . Which logistic network?

This question is often asked specifically in the context of logistics master plans: from a point of origin to a point of destination, what is the best “Route to Market”?
Route to Market defines the physical circuits from the supplier’s source to the point of sale. Newton.Vaureal Consulting will define each optimal Route To Market for a given product family.
Once the most relevant “Route to Market” has been determined, the logistics network can be modeled.

2. Where to locate an infrastructure (often carried out specifically as part of logistics master plans)

Once the network, roles and infrastructures have been defined, Newton.Vaureal Consulting helps you choose the theoretical location of the infrastructure(s) by searching for the optimum; then by progressively degrading this optimum to converge on the actual location of existing infrastructures.

3. What are the operating processes within the infrastructure?

Newton. Vaureal Consulting has developed an in-depth knowledge of warehouse processes in various business sectors (Retail, BtoB Distribution, Agriculture and Food Processing, Healthcare, Aeronautics and Defense, Maintenance, Construction and Public Works, Consumer Electronics, Luxury Goods), which enables it to assess the best processes to implement for a given activity in the company’s specific context (strategy, investment policy, human resources, etc.).

4. How to size the infrastructure?

Newton. Vaureal Consulting has the tools to determine the building’s characteristics according to the operating processes (with stock, without stock, P-manufacturing); all the surface areas required (preparation area, storage area, dispatch area…) and estimated investment costs (real estate costs – construction, security… – and equipment costs – racks, forklifts, automation…).

5. What is the performance of the firm?

Thanks to its experience and expertise, Newton.Vaureal Consulting compares relative and absolute business performance against benchmarks and best practices.

6. How can we continuously improve the performance of our logistics infrastructure?

It is important and necessary to continuously measure operating performance. Newton. Vaureal Consulting proposes to compare business performance against benchmarks and best practices. The comparison is based on absolute and relative operating performance indicators for a warehouse.

Our supply chain and logistics consultants use a variety of tools to measure business performance:

Deployment of a Six Sigma approach to measure business performance and identify causes of non-performance

Other tools developed and used in Lean Manufacturing approaches: Ishikawa diagram – SMED approach: Single Minute Exchange of Die – 5 S approach

Transport optimization

Our supply chain and logistics consultants have been supporting their customers for many years in all aspects of transport performance:

Redesigning the Transport Plan
Preparing and/or conducting calls for tender
Transport management organization
Transport performance audit (costs, deadlines, environment)

Today’s transport organizations are more mature and face new challenges: traceability of operations (proof of delivery), event capture (litigation), pooling, urban delivery (traffic congestion, noise, access, etc.), CO2,

Newton. Vaureal Consulting supports its customers on all continents, and for all types of needs. For example, we combined our transport offer with our operational research department to develop a transport plan to optimize routes between several ports in South-East Asia, towards the Arctic Circle. This involved transporting modules for a plant under construction beyond the Arctic Circle, combining different types of ships, routes (Suez, Bering), loading plans, and various stopping points along the way.

Single parcel BtoC (Business to Consumer)

Our supply chain and logistics consultants are aware of the growing importance of BtoC in business models, with ever-increasing demands for customer service and real-time information.

Single parcel shipments are developing alongside Internet commerce, creating new needs for Newton.Vaureal Consulting’s customers. Indeed, in addition to optimizing and securing their domestic shipments, our customers must also implement a routing strategy to other third countries. For some of them, before considering the physical installation of a stock on site, as close as possible to the consumer.