Case Studies
For more than 20 years, Tim Consult has provided specialized consulting to help our clients meet high-priority challenges. With over 1,700 successfully completed projects, we have an uncommon expertise delivering individual solutions to multinational and medium sized enterprises.
Customer: International manufacturer of petrochemical products
Freight volume: 45,000 TEU p.a.
Freight budget: USD 25 m p.a.
500 Port Pairs
Market Intelligence Initiative Global Ocean Transport
- Corporate overview of global transport network
- Business unit-specific evaluation of freight budget and cost reduction opportunities
- Development of realistic target rates for application to the tender tool
- Service segmentation with adjusted contract model
Contact: Clemens Schapeler
Customer: Automobile manufacturer
Optimization of supply networks for global assembly operations
Analysis of all door-to-door process steps
Optimization of costs and delivery time
- Impact of procurement and supply chain management on modal costs and process time: road, rail and ocean
- Holistic, process-oriented assessment of supply chains
- Cost potential of over 20% identified
- Potential delivery time reductions of over 40% identified
Contact: Fredrik Händel
Customer: Paper and packaging supplies manufacturer
Freight budget: EUR 400 m
80 production locations worldwide
Modes of transport: road, rail, ocean
Supply chain requirements and best practices
- Competitive procurement of transport services
- Consideration of supply chain requirements and best practices
- Re-organization of central procurement
- Corporate-wide step implementation over three years
- Sustainable cost reduction and service improvement
Contact: Fredrik Händel
Customer: Automobile manufacturer
World-wide tender
More than 200,000 TEU/per year
More than 1,000 routes
Web-based decision making support
- Validated, reliable data as basis for decision
- Results information 15 min after end of tender round
- Instantaneous calculation of optimal allocation per business rules and restrictions
- Deductive analysis of cooperation packets
- Query of several different service alternatives per route
Contact: Thomas Hang
Customer: International automobile manufacturer
Freight volume: 300,000 FTL p.a.
Freight budget: Euro 170 m p.a.
1,000 transport routes in all of Europe
Market Intelligence Initiative Europe Road & Rail
- Market oriented control of freight procurement for different plants
- Validation of market prices and internal cost calculations for transportation
- Creation of centralized freight rate database
- Set realistic target rates for each transport mode
- Best practices for process optimization
Contact: Christian Dolderer
Customer: Chemical company
Volume: ca. 80,000 shipments p.a.
2,500 routes
More than 100 service providers
Allocation scenarios and decision support
- Preparation by processing data and pre-qualifying bidders
- Automated tender evaluation and calculation of scenarios, simulations and optimization of various business rules pertaining to service, capacity, allocation logic, etc.
- Optimization analysis of each service provider offer
- Visualization of scenarios and calculation of savings potentials
Contact: Dennis Möbius