12 TRANSWIDE
Software simplifies paper mill logistics
Pulp Paper & Logistics
With 200 truck movements every day, the Norske Skog Golbey paper mill in France wanted the best logistics management model. It was found with Transwide. PPL reports.
presses and major commercial publishers, the Norske Skog Golbey paper mill (NSG) is always looking for the most innovative, profitable and responsible logistics model for delivering its reels of paper in good time to its clients around the world. Following a project that involved
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collecting and sending recycled paper by rail, a first in France, NSG, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Group Norske Skogindustrier, has embraced the most efficient organisational models and tools to optimise all of its transport movements. With incoming yearly deliveries of more than one million tons of raw materials (wood and recycled paper) and outgoing deliveries of
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ocated at the heart of Europe at Vosges in eastern France, close to a number of printing
600,000 tons of newsprint, this is equivalent of more than 200 daily truck movements that need to be managed. Following its decision to outsource the operational management of its road transport needs to Cetrama, a subsidiary of Transports Mauffrey, NSG decided to outsource the operational management of its road transport needs to Centrama, a subsidiary of Transports Mauffrey. For the planning and the management of the transport processes the company selected the modular TMS solution from Belgian-based Transwide. Jean-Yves Bourguignon, NSG’s head of logistics, explains: “Keen to find new solutions to continue to offer our clients effective services, Transwide met all our needs in terms of the fluidity, efficiency and reliability of our
road transport. More than ever, it fits in perfectly with our strategy to outsource services and respect provisional transport costs.”
A new management model for road transport Having previously appointed a single carrier, Norske Skog Golbey used the renegotiation of its transport budget to undertake a top-to-bottom review of its road transport management strategy to benefit from new sources of improved productivity. It quickly became clear that there was a need to outsource operational management and increase the number of transport partners. At the same time, NSG was keen
to maintain control of transport purchasing and invoicing, relying on its SAP ERP. Given the volumes of complex and significant information that needed to
Jean-Yves Bourguignon NSG’s head of logistics
be managed, a TMS software solution, capable of interfacing in real time with SAP, was crucial to helping NSG change the way it was organised. Added to this was the need to spread out the arrival of trucks
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