TNT Logistics expands its portfolio of contracts with CNH
16 January 2006 - 12:28 CET
TNT Logistics Brazil has signed a new 3-year agreement with Case New Holland (CNH), a global company, leader in agricultural and building equipment. From now on, TNT Logistics will be responsible for the inbound operations to CNH plants, distribution and consolidation centres throughout Brazil, operating in the cities of Curitiba, Contagem, Piracicaba, Itu, Porto Alegre and Diadema. TNT Logistics has already performed distribution operations for machines and parts to all dealers in Brazil, besides the management of the spare parts warehouse located in Itu (São PauloIn this contract, TNT Logistics will be responsible for the collection of parts at suppliers, via Milk Run concepts. TNT Logistics' base office in Diadema will be responsible for management of 60% of the moved volume. Daily, 12 large trucks will transport the suppliers' parts in long haul schedules to the CNH basis. The average volume will be 650 collections and 290 transfers per month.
For this operation, TNT Logistics is implementing an in-house developed software package, which will allow the client to follow, through the internet, the whole course of collections and transfers, up to the arrival of the parts at the final destination.
"Our best competitive advantage for the awarding of this contract was the fact that we are the only logistics provider capable of integrating all CNH operations in Brazil, customising routes and generating a single information network, besides the fact that we could achieve a cost reduction", explains Giuseppe Chiellino, Managing Director for TNT Logistics South America.
