Home Grown Timber delivers better results
28th July 2010
If you have a high performance car, a general mechanic is unlikely to have the relevant skill sets or specific expertise you need to deliver the best results.
Yes, they will be able to carry out the necessary maintenance and find faults but, when it comes to tuning, fine adjustments to the suspension or ideas which give that little something extra – they will be found wanting.
Specialist Automotive or Generalist 3pl?
It’s the same with other logistics companies, generalists may provide a good solution but, in automotive manufacturing, they aren’t equipped to provide the best results.
As generalists they apply the same processes in all environments, which means they can’t spot the tweaks or opportunities of a specialist.
Automotive manufacturing is like no other, it leads the way through innovation
Here you have it! If you employ generalists they are learning from automotive manufacturing processes - not driving them forward.
The average time served in the automotive sector by the management team at Rudolph and Hellmann is over 15 years; the experience of these individuals is further enhanced when you discover that the majority have risen through the ranks having worked in all key areas of automotive manufacturing. This means they really understand the operational requirements of automotive manufacturing inside out.
Alongside this, and coupled with a determination to develop both their own personal skills through training and formal industry qualifications and the culture of continual improvement at Rudolph and Hellmann, you begin to understand why such a powerful combination is able to deliver the highest levels of improvement.
Lack of understanding and too wide a remit equals inefficiency
Many companies believe the scale of economy a large 3pl can provide, if they outsource multiple operations to a single supplier, will deliver the greatest savings. Yet time and time again, when this theory is implemented the scale is the aspect which delivers the inefficiency. It provides areas to become ‘loss leaders’ but the costs have to be made up somewhere. Benchmarking processes run by generalist 3pl’s, we have discovered, reduced productivity, no desire for process improvement, and little expertise because the management roles are occupied by generalist’s not automotive production experts.
Better to keep separate cost centres and squeeze independently
Every cost centre must operate independently for you to get savings, preventing it being hidden in a fog of overlapped services.
This provides greater flexibility, in-house Overheads v Outsourced Activity Based Costs.
Dedicated to automotive manufacturing production logistics and based in the UK
Rudolph and Hellmann Automotive were the first company in the UK to provide an ‘Activity Based Cost’ solution to the automotive sector.
Operating exclusively in the UK, they continue to be the only ‘on-site’ logistics company providing services dedicated to automotive manufacturing.
This focus has resulted in what is probably the most experienced, responsive, and dynamic team in automotive production logistics.
With two of the oldest and largest privately owned logistics companies in Europe as parents, they operate from a strong financial base and have access to global distribution networks.
No other company operates a more transparent, ‘shared risk - shared rewards’ billing solution in the UK automotive manufacturing industry.
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