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Through the night

Transport at Night for Optimum Efficiency

 

It is a cliché that suppliers and consumers co-exist in an ever more demanding business environment. Suppliers have a financial imperative to minimise stock holdings while customers want top quality service in short order - waiting for products is not on. Delivering to exacting service standards through a congested road system where cost and environmental pressures are increasing requires an innovative approach. Norbert Dentressangle has the solution: delivering at night improves service and controls costs. It meets the needs of the changing, urgent nature of business-to-business non-food distribution as cost-effectively as possible.
 

How it works

• Through the Night is a secure and highly reliable night time transportation service using dedicated vehicles andone of the largest owned shared user networks in the UK.
• The service offers full traceability with GPRS and scanning technology and our dedicated drivers are experienced in handling deliveries into locked,unmanned sites.
• A comprehensive range of product carriage options is available, including cages, pallets and totes. It also incorporates a number of added valueservices such as store logistics, packaging and returns management.

 

Advantages to your business

• You gain competitive advantage by improving the service levels you provide your customers.
• Your costs are reduced by avoiding daytime road and loading bay congestion as well as by increasing vehicle utilisation.
• Secure night delivery into unmanned sites frees up resources to concentrate on customer service during the day.
• Inventory levels for both you and your customers are reduced.
• Full track and trace gives you visibility when you need it - the support of robust IT reduces paperwork and scanned returnable packaging gives you greater control of assets and costs.
• Your carbon footprint is reduced as vehicles run more efficiently.

 

Through the night in action

• Successfully delivering parts to more than 100 dealerships throughout the UK before they open for business each day…
• For high street retailers, improve early morning on-shelf availability without creating more stock space…
• A key customer wants JIT deliveries for the start of each day but hispremises are closed and alarmed overnight…
• Inventory levels for both you and your customers are reduced.
• In the run up to Christmas, the volumes you need to move quadruple. The roads are more congested, poor weather can lead to hold-ups and you have to allow for seasonal packing work…