How a leading bottled water brand scaled up their logistics.
The Background
Being one of the world’s leading bottled water companies, our customer has over 95 production sites in 34 countries, employing more than 20,000 employees worldwide. They own several unique brands across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
The Challenge
Our customer was experiencing high shipping costs and quality issues caused by heavy cargo weights and underutilised containers. Only 55-60% of the container space was fully utilised, because cargo loaded at the origin was reaching maximum weight.
The problem of underutilisation created void spaces inside the container, which meant that the cargo would move while on transit and be damaged on arrival. Questionable quality assurance led to poor customer service performance.
The Solution
Maersk offered a ‘Heavy Weight Zone’ program allowing containers to exceed the general weight restriction, where our customer’s cargo is moved by a special triaxle truck from ports and terminals to a local warehouse for deconsolidation.
This approach let suppliers and distribution centres to load more volume into containers to ensure a more secure transit. Our warehouses offered tailormade value-added services, delivering effective quality assurance to meet predetermined performance indicators.
The Result
Significant reductions in shipping costs and reduced ocean spend by approximately 30%, caused by the maximisation of container capacity. The customer is now able to ship on average 21 pallets per container at 58,000 lbs.
The new warehouse protocols reduced the damage by 8% per year and increased the fill rates to wholesale and retail consumers. Previously, the customer was able to ship only at fright standard, which was only 14 pallets in each container.
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