Supply Chain Solutions

Geodis UK offer seamless integrated services for all your supply chain needs. Whether chasing your purchase orders from a factory in the Far East or preparing consular documentation for your important export shipment to say, Latin America we have the team to support you.

Geodis UK have strategically sited operational branches and warehousing throughout the UK covering all the ports and airports. We are in business to add value to yours, so if it's to take over complex operations on your behalf or simply to reduce your own management time being deflected away from your core activities Geodis are ready for business.

Expediting air shipments, de-stuffing ocean boxes, advising and managing customs clearances Geodis then have European and domestic UK distribution networks to ensure your products get to market on time. If it's golf clubs from North America, household goods from China, plastic mouldings from Poland, electrical components to be held in a VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory - warehouse adjacent to your assembly line), whatever your need Geodis has the resources. Geodis has a wealth of experience, IT and most important the will and commitment to be your first choice supply chain partner.

Regardless of the business sector or their geographic locations, Supply Chain Management is now at the heart of the challenges of industrial firms that care about the reliability of their product offer and optimization of their expenses.

Based on a cross-functional approach including logistics, purchasing, production, marketing, etc., the aim of supply chain management is to optimize processes: from sourcing to delivery. Companies agree that a transversal approach to flow management--whether they be production, logistics or information flows--is today more effective than the simple, disconnected oversight of each link in the logistics chain.

To contribute to supply chain management programs, companies are looking for partners that do not limit themselves to the mere provision of services. The advisory role of an outside team of logistics experts amounts to a major boost for creating logistics value extremely close to the company's market and its developments.

Geodis offers its customers and prospects supply chain-oriented logistics services at three levels :

Upstream advice and advanced oversight   Geodis makes available to its customers its know-how in network design, modeling, sharing of experience, etc. to jointly define the logistics scheme that best optimizes their supply chain.       Oversight of activities related to the execution of transport and logistics   Delegation to Geodis from all or part of the customer's supply chain. This approach includes the flow of related information to enable the customer to oversee its supply chain through performance reporting so as to make corrections and provide for constant optimization in real time, affording better visibility.     Execution of all or part of logistics services at the national and European levels   Upstream multi-modal transport, pre-production logistics, inter-site flow management, post-production logistics, delayed differentiation processes, distribution, etc. The customer's lines of business may call for one or several logistics chain services ; Geodis is one of the only European groups to offer them all.

The purpose of this three-level system

Support our customers in their operational performance objectives, both on their domestic and international markets. To accomplish this, Geodis makes available to them, based on the configuration of their business, all of its sector- and country-specific knowledge.

This organizational approach has but a single goal : satisfy our customers, as well as their customers. This goal is shared by all of Geodis's associates and partners and is enriched each day as we listen to our customers. The Group's quality of service is the result of true proximity and total involvement, on which Geodis bases its relationships every day.