Completed projects – A selection
With hundreds of successfully completed projects, METROPLAN is one of the leading multidisciplinary service partners for planning and optimising procurement, purchasing, production and logistics systems. Customers from a wide range of sectors put their confidence in our performance capability, our know-how and our experience.
All of our customers place great value on discretion. Some brief project descriptions from selected customers are presented below.
All of our customers place great value on discretion. Some brief project descriptions from selected customers are presented below.
Kraft Foods
Foods industry
With sales of around $50 billion US dollars, Kraft Foods is the world’s second-largest food producer. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Kraft Foods is one of the leading producers in the categories of coffee, chocolate and cheese products.
We are proud of:
- Tender and contract award for the warehouse logistics services for the southern Germany delivery region: data collection and analysis; process audit and documentation; preparation of the tender documents for warehouse service providers; location scouting; conduct of the tender process and supervision of the contract award
- Creation of a European template for the tender and contract awards for the finished goods logistics (warehousing and transport) to qualified service providers; process standardisation at the European level; conduct of the tender process and contract awards for the UK, PL, S, N, DN, SK, CZ and HU countries
- General planning, tender and contract award for material flow and warehouse systems for the South distribution warehouse (operated by Schober Logistik); creation of the warehouse concept; establishment of the process flows; personnel and systems/equipment calculation; building and building equipment planning; tendering for general contractors; building implementation planning
- Network optimisation for Central & Eastern Europe: Calculation of the transport costs inbound, storage rates and outbound; economic efficiency assessment and derivation of the preferred network
- Creation of a master plan for development of the plant logistics at the production location in Fallingbostel, Germany: Audit of the quantity and structural data and the technical infrastructure; derivation of future scenarios with regard to throughput and warehouse capacity; design of the master plan
- Reengineering of the plant logistics at the Berlin location: Revision of the material planning connection between production and the plant warehouse; redesign of the warehouse technology and equipment in the plant warehouse; allocation of the stock types in conjunction with the external warehouse
- Reengineering of the quick-cooling system at the Fallingbostel (Germany) location: Definition of the performance and capacity requirements; capacity calculation; redesign of the warehouse systems; tender and contract award
- Consolidation of the Kraft Foods and Kraft Biscuit networks into a joint distribution network in Russia: Collection of the transport and warehouse data; analysis of the distribution structures; modelling; software-assisted evaluation of the models using operations research methods; calculation of the preferred model, implementation planning
- Consolidation of the Kraft Foods and Kraft Biscuit networks into a joint distribution network for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine: Collection of the transport and warehouse data; analysis of the distribution structures; modelling; software-assisted evaluation of the models using operations research methods; calculation of the preferred model, implementation planning
- Optimisation of the existing distribution network in Germany with regard to the number and positioning of locations, consolidation and division of business areas: Collection of the transport and warehouse data; analysis of the distribution structures; modelling; software-assisted evaluation of the models using operations research methods; calculation of the preferred model, implementation planning
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