PROXIO SAVES €10M FOR VOLVO LOGISTICS

Volvo Logistics designs, handles and develops comprehensive business logistics systems for the automotive industry worldwide. Volvo logistics have a lot of clients within the car industry, and not only within the Volvo/Ford sphere.

Volvo Logistics customers include Volvo Cars, GM, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, the Volvo Group and many of the automotive suppliers.

Since Volvo Logistics do not have any transportation vehicles of their own the transportation purchase process is a very important opportunity to cut costs.

In this process, Proxio optimizer has proven to be extremely useful to analyze the quotes and offers from the different transportation sellers. At the same time, Proxio Optimizer can be used as a helpful tool to design the transportation network as efficient as possible.

		Henrik Erkfeldt, Project Manager, Volvo logistics. – To evaluate the quotes could take up to 2-3 months, with Proxio Optimizer the process could be down to a matter of 7-10 days, says Henrik Erkfeldt. According to Volvo Technology Transfer, Proxio’s solution has shown it could reduce a company’s transport costs by at least 15% and fully implemented, Proxio Optimizer could contribute to annual cost savings of more than SEK 100 M for the Volvo Group.