Transport Management Review: Savings and Organizational Improvements
The Problem The customer company produces and distributes customized plastic products for packaging. It operates with a MTO (Make to Order) production model. In recent years, the company has had a very strong growth both in terms of volumes and customers. Shipments exceed several thousand per year; the customers are more than one thousand, most of them abroad. Foreign transport is mainly by road and, a minor part, by sea. Although the company has an…