E-commerce at Actemium is a logistics process that adapts to evolving needs, boosting its ability to prepare and handle orders.
In e-commerce – more than in other trades – logistics is the very lifeblood of business. Logistics is sometimes confused with the mechanised supply-chain lines that convey products and packages at a regular pace onto trucks for delivery to the buyers’ front door.
The software-assisted brick-and-mortar facility is not essential. What matters – and this is something online shoestore Spartoo has understood, is continuous engineering, which has not only created this efficient process but has built agility and vitality into it in response to ever-evolving needs.
Co-construction approach
“Requirements evolve very quickly in this sector, and we need to be extremely responsive,” says Bruno Maisonneuve, Business Unit Manager, Actemium Lyon Logistics, which developed Spartoo’s mechanised warehouse near Lyon (France). The warehouse is calibrated to process 1,500 packages an hour. In order to enable Spartoo to meet requirements that change every day and even stay ahead of the change curve, “we at Actemium make almost zero use of outsourcing”, adds Bruno Maisonneuve.
Unlike most of its competitors, which focus on the production of mechanised lines, Actemium, VINCI Energies’ 100% industry brand, concentrates on engineering, brick assembly, and ever-evolving change.
This co-construction approach in conjunction with Spartoo to build a full RFID line has enabled a further deployment of innovation. In this 23,000 m² warehouse with four storage levels, we were able to build in – not a conventional lift that would have taken up space and reduced output – but a rotating vertical elevator device in continuous operation, which has since been adopted by other clients. These clients include TopTex, a clothing brand for professionals, which signed a contract with Actemium after touring the Spartoo facility.
11/10/2016
