Description

Founded in 2001, Certis Europe was created from three businesses acquired by Mitsui & Co. Ltd during the 1990’s operating in the UK, France and Netherlands. It has since grown to become a European crop protection specialist providing sales and marketing services to its suppliers alongside development and regulatory support.

Opportunities

Groenewout supported the Certis logistics team in identifying financial opportunities on the (inter-) continental inbound transport flows from suppliers, via tollers and distribution centers, to end customers.

Solution

Groenewout conducted logistics scenario simulations on the following solutions:

• Transition from air freight to sea- and road freight;
• Implementation of consolidated import- or export hubs;
• Direct shipments from supplier to end customer, bypassing the distribution centers;
• Increasing the minimum order quantities at suppliers, this creating full container shipments.

Benefits

Groenewout identified:

• > 20% on potential costs savings on inbound transportation costs;
• > 5% savings on outsourced storage- and handling rates following a logistics benchmark.