Applied case IMac is a family company born in 1966 as the first Hypermarket in ° Latin America thanks to the inventive, perseverance, experience and great Vision of its founder, Juan Ramon Poll Cabrera They have over 45 years of experience, 21 branches, over 120 pieces of rolling stock and 4,000 employees. Almacenes El Machetazo ‘sa part of Grupo El Machstazo which inchides companies from different markets st 2 Ligo, Hyundai Dealership. real estate services: Leavie’ tate and Vilma Investrnen — agricultural ventures: Ganadera Tecal and Finca Bremer, Pollo Tropical =e —THE INITIAL SITUATION logycaX A consulting project was car it by the El Machetazo c ompany’s current state. ur team of professionals was carried out through multiple Excel spreadsheets, pany, in order to obtain an initial diagnosis of the logistics process of the company. They leamed it manually uploaded and controlled, This system had several inconveniences, which we list here, + The spreadsheets did not cast any alarms + There was a large risk for human error + It wasted time + It did not allow for cross-checking + There were oo many files which hi De cont + The information was not protected under any type 1 manually Excel spreadsheet to another, wi risk of making mis + Advanced knowledge of Excel was required in order to carry out all the tasks con se of urgent situations \compatiblities 1 practically all the time securityTHE PROPOSED SOLUTION __lcgycaX Once the problem was assessed, the Saber Logistico team came up with the goal of working towards improving planning and travels between branches and warehouses of the id the nge knowing ience to the process of @ sone > ‘rst, our consultants advised El Machetazo and then mplement a TMS (Transport Management Systern} y un FMS exible Manufacture System), with the aim to centralize the ormation in a software and get rid of all Excel spreadsheetsTHE PROPOSED SOLUTION __logycaX Then, they proceeded to implement a cormmand board, where four key performance Indicators were determined to be controlled obtaining data from the Ts lefining a mas ora * Defining optimal times + Periodic assignment of resources erating programmed tra these parameters, the staff in charge will be able to he effectiveness in travel organization, delays and detours in concordance with optimal timelin: ‘well as the availability of re information, F in a quick and organiz urces and of sented to them in a simple and q vaneRESULTS logyca _ After the Implementation of the system planning and = maintenance of the travel mapping was greatly improved and ? simplified, along with the freight capacity and optimal timelines. Also. benefits in terms of travel times, loading and unloading were achieved. n of the informatic system, they managed benefits: Mast optimal timelines, allocation of resour of travels based on the master pr schedules and occupied capacttie Source Period generation sm and tracking and control of http //wwrwsaberlogisticocom.ar/2014/12/16/caso-de-exito-optimizacio n-de-los-procesos-locisticos-de-el-machetazo/