Consultants in Logistics

ACCO: Supply Chain Planning

Acco UK Limited, a subsidiary of Acco World, is the largest manufacturer and distributor of office products, business machines and fine art products in the UK.

Our logistics consultancy was asked to review Acco Europe’s European logistic infrastructure to establish whether there was a more appropriate design for mainland Europe. Product is manufactured at several sites in the EU, Eastern Europe and the Far East with Acco distribution warehouses in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Ireland serving their own markets and providing distribution support to sales operations in Benelux, Poland and Sweden.

We prepared a detailed supply chain model that determined the logistic cost of all products within a single order for all customers. This enabled Acco to evaluate the financial effects of changing manufacturing source points and identifying the true logistics costs of individual products, product ranges, customers and customer groups.

“Acco Europe's company, customer and product structures are complex with over 7000 products being distributed throughout Europe and exported to many other countries. We needed to review our complete distribution infrastructure across Europe with the objective of reducing our supply chain costs while still maintaining customer service levels. Davies & Robson supply chain consultants successfully modelled the existing supply chain infrastructure and made various recommendations for improvements, their honest and frank approach to the project prompted us to think "outside of the box" and review other areas of our business. We continue to work with Davies & Robson in order to look at customer and product profitability taking into account supply chain costs in order to gain a better understanding of our distribution and business strategy.”

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