ID Logistics

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND COLLABORATIVE LOGISTICS SERVICE

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Innovation With a new year around the corner, we take a look at ID Logistics and the company’s sustainable, innovative, and service-centric developments amid its expansion into the US Writer: Marcus Kääpä | Project Manager: Tom Cullum

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D Logistics stands as a key player in the North American logistics industry. From its inception in France in 2001, the company was designed with an international focus in mind.

Following the launch of French services for large format retailors, ID kicked off its global expansion with the opening of its first subsidiary in Taiwan during early 2002. Following this, the firm continued with a steady growth of logistics activities through the opening of several sites across France, as well as subsidiaries in Brazil, the Indian Ocean region, Spain, China, and Indonesia.

From there, ID gained a foothold in multiple continents and took to strengthening its position in the e-commerce space. Now it consolidates itself as a market leader in order picking in Europe (after the acquisition of CEPL), maintaining a strong presence in luxury goods, and moved on to breach the US market in 2019.

Following the purchase of Jagged Peak (a US company specialising in 2 | North America Outlook issue 01

e-commerce logistics), ID stamped its footprint on luxury goods in America, opening itself up to additional opportunities for development, innovation, and acquisition-led growth prospects.

The extension of e-commerce services remains an extremely important aspect of business for ID Logistics. With a wide variety of products to sell, with a multitude of different requirements with regards to the speed and excellence of service, it is within ID’s requirements to anticipate unpredictability and overcome everyday challenges.

Similarly, the company’s retail department require specific knowledge and attention to identify potential peaks in activity that require management, coupled with the logistical flows when regarding storage or simply the just-in-time deliveries that are expected. ID additionally specialises in providing fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) that require the high-quality standards of factory-to-client fluidity management.

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Advantix Logistics is committed to providing superior labor solutions for your warehousing and distribution facilities. Advantix Logistics provides motivated and dependable labor for freight handling, warehouse services, warehouse management, and on-site management.

Advantix Logistics has been supplying warehouse and distribution clients with skilled associates for nearly three decades. Whether it’s admintrative or a manager overseeing operations, we recruit and hire top-of-the-line staffing. We have continued to grow over the years as we have helped our clients grow their businesses with focused, competent associates who comply with proper security and safety practices. Our intensive screening and training procedures, combined with our intelligent matching system, increase your bottom line. Advantix Logistics will build out a diverse team with extensive experience based upon your company’s request. We know each client values honest and consistent communication and Advantix Logistics strives to meet all commitments within the timeframe requested.

Distribution centers need to lower costs while getting the right products delivered damage-free and on time. We provide trained staff who are well versed in our client’s SOPs. We review both client and staff expectations on an ongoing basis to ensure that both sides of the equation are meeting expectations.

OUR VALUES – We build strong relationships with our clients by providing highly screened and trained associates at a competitive cost.

Advantix has partnered to successfully serve a variety of distribution and manufacturing operations. Here are some industries we proudly serve.

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All Modes of Packaging Automotive Discount Retail Electronics & Appliances Food Service General Merchandise Grocery Health & Beauty Furnishings Medical Sporting Goods & Hobby Short Term Projects Third Party Logistics

OUR MISSION – Advantix Logistics provides the highest caliber of trained, reliable and efficient associates for all positions in warehousing and distribution facilities.

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ID LOGISTICS SUSTAINABILITY AT THE FORE These activities do not only take the service of company to consumer into mind. Another side to ID’s business practices are the company-wide environmental standards that it sets for itself.

ID stands as a company that supports and encourages the active development of sustainability practices organisation wide, and externally. Its sustainability developments focus around three key areas that cover a broad ecological plan.

IDEO AT A GLANCE IDEO offers a unique transport management as a collaborative and assetsfree European fourth-party logistics provider (4PL). IDEO utilises of two important aspects of business: COLLABORATION: The world would be a better place if it was one unique supply chain. As a multi-client control tower, IDEO shares resources, experiences, and backhauling synergies to maximise potential.

ASSETS FREE: • Without owning vehicles to make benefit with, our hauliers’ selection and allocation is totally independent. Our decisions are only done in alignment with our customers’ benefits.

• We provide to our customers a management of their operations from creation of an order to its fulfilment. We act on three levels: 1. Management and coordination of road and rail transport 2. Costs and service optimisation 3. Innovation and process engineering OUR HISTORY We started as a European-based entity in Saint Priest, close to Lyon in France, the control tower IDEO had been created in 2014 and is specialised in road and rail transport management across Europe.

Four years later, IDEO regroups more than 100 experts in the supply chain and transport sectors. We serve customers such as Danone, Auchan, Orangina Suntory Factory, Bericap, BMI, and PepsiCo. Operational excellence and added value created by our advance supply chain management have built our reputation to what it is today. As a result, IDEO was awarded “King of Supply Chain 2017” by Supply Chain Magazine.

“KING OF SUPPLY CHAIN” 2017 This award was granted to IDEO for the setting up of a dedicated rail hub.

The project evacuates Evian’s products as soon as they arrive via a rail shuttles connection between the factory and the rail hub. IDEO serves to maintain our seamless and professional logistics service throughout Europe.

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The social and civic aspect of these developments sees ID maintain responsibility as an employer and contributor to the economy within local communities that are intertwined with the company’s presence and business. ID is focused on increasing the involvement and security of its employees through means of training and awareness programmes – encouraging responsible initiatives by which the employees can grow and develop.

The company’s investment in economic efficiency and the support of customers and clients is another.

Through the implementation of optimised and innovative solutions, ID manages to address the issues of company economic and environmental performance needs.

And of course, the third key area that completes the triangle of sustainability development is environmental protection. Taking action on pollution and pollutive elements, unsustainable energy consumption and wastage, the firm actively improves the environmental quality of resources utilised in its practices, including vehicles and sites, with the goal of being a continually greener business.

“Born and raised in New Jersey, I remember my father giving me the opportunity to work each summer break with him in his trucking business since I was ten years old vs. offering me summer camp to hang with my friends. I have been blessed to work in the logistics industry all of my life.

My family started on the trucking side of the logistical business. Our daily challenge was making timely deliveries to supermarket and warehouses because of constant delays in unloading. When I complained to any customer about the congestion on their docks, received the same response from each of them - if you can do better, than do it! Took the challenge personally and came up with my own solution. Advantix Logistics was created, and my team started performing unloading services at distribution centers. Found that with our discipline and dedication we did a better job than the customer.

From this humble beginning Advantix Logistics morphed into supplying all functions in distribution centers and warehouses.

Advantix Logistics can provide labor solutions to all needs in warehouses or distribution centers. Can unload containers, pull orders, move the freight, load out, administrative and management support. Our services are like a menu, pick what you want!

The Advantix Logistics leadership team prides ourselves on our labor solution model. Every customer we service will see an improvement in their distribution in quality and time with cost savings.

As the Frank Sinatra song says: “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Well, we made it in NJ/NY Metro Market, the toughest market in America and we all are proud of it!�

Michael J Mortorano

Advantix Logistics is not your average temp agency, we are a labor solutions provider. Our full-time associates are dedicated to the performance and success of our clients. With Pride an Advantix Logistics Associate is well trained and driven for the success of our clients.

Proud of our formula for success, Advantix Logistics is built on the fundamentals of customer service, dedication, and driven hard working associates.

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COMPANY VALUES ID Logistics follows a set of four founding values that guide the group’s expansion in the industry. These are the building blocks of the company’s success and continued growth and development.

The four founding values:

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP Daring, imagining, and developing with a rigorous approach in the implementation and measurement of risk.

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OPERATING EXCELLENCE Complying with specifications and service standards, while prioritising new technologies.

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HIGH STANDARDS Responsibility and professionalism in human relations within the company as well as with clients and partners.

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SOLIDARITY Promoting solidarity within the group and committing to sustainable development together with our employees, clients, and partners.

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To further consolidate its sustainability practices, ID has provided a “sustainable development toolbox” made up of a list of 110 actions with implementation guidelines – one that has been available since 2008. These guidelines cover the entire spectrum of sustainable development and provide the followers of such actions with the easy deployment of chosen projects.

The commitment levels of participants are checked during site certification audits to ensure that they are maintaining the goal of at least three projects in a year following the sustainability guidelines - one of these must be in collaboration with a client to further promote ecological activity.

ID Logistics makes use of active involvement when it comes to customers’ sustainability programmes.

Annually, the company gets involved with evaluations made by Ecovadis (the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings) or Sedex (one of the world’s leading ethical trade membership organisations). These groups help establish a long-standing environmental stance both in-house and with external businesses.

Stemming from this, ID also play an active role within the Demeter club.

This organisation brings together key players in the supply chain

(distribution, manufacturers, logistics service providers, and public authorities) to promote collective ecological actions in a collaborative way.

INNOVATION IN THE INDUSTRY In recent years, ID Logistics has ramped up its deliverance of innovative development. 2014 saw the company set up a true innovation unit – four engineers were tasked with setting this up, and they utilised collaborative methodology to centralise the group’s innovative projects.

In order to manage the unit, the firm created an innovation committee made up of managers from multiple departments including operations, IT systems, and development departments, to monitor the team’s focus on future topics.

A part of this increase of innovative development is the improvement of customer service across the company.

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ID’s aim is to allow customers to benefit from the new solutions they produce, and improving the service provided, by making it much more efficient and flexible. Within this, ID will be offering a variety of different kinds of products that stand out to the consumer.

However, the company’s focus is not only restricted to operation excellence.

ID works towards anticipating the future needs of its customers and the industry through the application of incremental technological developments.

The partner and supplier relationships that ID maintains are held with absolute importance. Working with multiple external businesses means that the fluidity of service and communication between them is paramount to success.

It is due to this element of logistics that ID unites its partners around an ecosystem of innovation. Each external body is approached on a regular basis

to share with ID the product development and service plans they each plan for the future. Existing suppliers then look into each development plan to analyse its potential, as well as issues, that could arise.

The organisational structure allows for a simple but effective process of identifying prospective subjects, analysing their relevance, setting up a representative trial, and ensuring the ease of its development (scaling up the trial to fit the realistic needs of the subject).

The communication and sharing of knowledge and planning between the integrated businesses allows ID, as well as each company involved, to gain the latest in development, innovation, and progression to help each collaboratively move forward in the industry.

With 2021 around the corner, ID Logistics continues with its expansion into various countries around the globe and aims to grow its influence in the North American market. It is fair to say that ID is one logistics company that is worth keeping an eye out for in the coming new year.

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