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LMxt from A-SIS, growth facilitator for service provider PORTMANN LOGISTICS

10.09.2018

Supporting its clients in their continuous growth and development: that was the ambition of Alsatian logistics company PORTMANN in calling on A-SIS, Savoye's software publishing brand, for its warehouse management systems.

With turnover of 145 million euros in 2017, presence in France (4 sites), Luxembourg, and Poland, the PORTMANN Group is a transportation, chartering, logistics, and flow control (4PL) specialist boasting some impressive developments. A virtuous circle that also concerns its subsidiary Portmann Logistics, a logistics services specialist. For the best possible response to the growth and development of its customers, whilst extending its know-how to other prospects, the transportation and logistics provider therefore wanted to optimise information system management in its warehouses.

An answer to the constraint of the multi-client site
The first site concerned was Brie-Comte-Robert (77), with surface area of 16,000 m2. This site houses the activities of Portmann Logistics' main clients: Autodistribution, Bostik, and Motul. Three clients with different logistics processes and needs: faultless quality, traceability and reactivity for the first, reliability and customisation of processes for the second, and adaptation to daily volume changes for the third. »To support our growth and those of our customers, we thought it was essential to change our WMS in order to improve our performance and our services,« explains Sylvain Duthil, Site Manager at Portmann Logistics. The service provider there launched an invitation to tender in late 2017. After consulting several big names in the sector, it finally chose software solution publisher and integrator A-SIS and its WMS LMxt, enriched with the LM Connect and LM DGM functions. »The reasons that drove us to choose LMxt relate to how easy it is to configure and how quickly you can learn to use it, as well as the fact that it is modular and can adapt to all different types of process and constraint. Finally, the businesslike approach of the project teams, their professionalism and ability to understand our requirements were a big factor in determining our choice,« add Sylvain Duthil and Luc Gruhn, Director of Information Services at Portmann.

A complete and modular offering
The Brie-Comte-Robert site is subject to the Seveso III directive and therefore also required a tool capable of perfectly managing the storage and transportation of hazardous materials. A-SIS was able to satisfy this requirement thanks to the LM DGM module dedicated to the management of regulatory constraints related to this type of process and product. In parallel, in order to improve the EDI flows of its client Autodistribution, the service provider also decided to acquire the LM Connect module. Enriched with both of its modules, LMxt will be able to optimise nearly 400 order preparations, 5000 lines, and the shipping of 12,000 packages every day. »LMxt is now our go-to WMS. It will keep up with our growth and will be deployed on our three other sites as well as our future sites. In addition to the increased productivity we anticipate, it will allow us to enhance the value of our logistics offer on the market and embark on a controlled harmonisation of our processes,« add Luc Mauchien, Director of Logistics Development for the Portmann Group. The project, whose deployment will begin in November 2018, will continue throughout the spring of 2019 for all clients on the Brie-Comte-Robert site of Portmann Logistics, and will then start to be deployed on the other logistics sites.



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