Access to the proper stock material at strategic locations, evenly distributed throughout the Netherlands. Our colleague Robbert van der Schaaf explains that outsourcing the stock management activities for local warehouses storing essential railway materials has several advantages.
In 2020, warehouses for maintenance contractors and malfunction service staff are still widely used. Having shorter arrival times, malfunctions are solved faster. As soon as the products are collected from the warehouse, they are scanned and registered. This registration is sent to our “central” warehouse in Hilversum, the Netherlands, where our co-workers immediately get to work. This way, the maintenance staff always has access to what they need, because the stock is automatically replenished. Moreover, costs are saved since surplus or obsolete stock is prevented.
Our customer makes full use of the “Voorraad Op Locatie” (VOL), or Forward Stocking Location (FSL), in Zwolle. Because of its success, we have set up several additional locations for other railway contractors. In total, we now control 14 local warehouses throughout the Netherlands for maintenance contractors and malfunction service staff in various Performance Based Maintenance areas.