Swift solutions for fast moving industries

In fast-moving industries like agriculture, construction and mining, ensuring products are delivered on time is crucial to meeting demand and gaining market share. Here are four of the most common challenges and how we help you address them.

Meeting demand not only during targeted seasons, but also for routine dealer replenishment is key for machinery manufacturers to capture market share. For instance, most agricultural products are seasonal, and if these aren’t delivered to dealers in time for the harvesting season, it could have costly consequences.

To help you meet your customers’ delivery schedules, we offer a stable solution for shipping smaller, lighter, fully guilt and semi-knocked down machines as well as larger components. In addition, we ensure your products are delivered to market on time with our frequent transit schedule.

To ensure your products are safely loaded and discharged from the vessel and dealer ready before they arrive at the end customer, we also offer customized handling solutions.

We understand that moving finished machines to end customers increases the risk of delays. To help increase efficiency in your supply chain, our global network of on-port and off-port equipment processing centers (EPCs) can perform customization and modification to a wide range of machinery.

On-port EPCs allow for immediate storage and simple processing services as well as access to Free-Trade Zone storage if needed. After the service or storage of your products is complete, they can be delivered directly to the dealers, helping to reduce lead times.

While simultaneously giving you the flexibility to store inventory for both stock and dealer-ready units, our off-port EPCs serve as a cost-effective solution for more extensive processing. At these centers, you can stock and customize units before they are delivered to the end customer.

With our global network of EPCs, you can get your products to market faster and reduce inventory costs by scaling processing up or down according to demand.

With increased competition, it has become increasingly critical to be able to not only capture all the associated costs when moving a product from factory to dealer, but that you have the visibility of the units, including predictive analytics of cargo movement, through the supply chain.

With the ability to deliver integrated support across the supply chain, we strive to make sure your products are visible when transported, stored and processed by us. By introducing more integrated systems linking all our services, both you and your end customers will be offered greater visibility throughout the supply chain.

Throughout the entire journey, you will have a real-time view from units arriving on our vessels to moving through our terminals, into our EPCs and eventually to the destination on our trucks.

In the US, a critical market for the machinery segment, seamless access to reliable land-based transportation is essential to maintain an efficient supply chain. Ensuring your products move smoothly from port to end destination, our inland distribution network bridges ocean transportation and processing services.

By riding with us, you and your dealers can benefit from improved delivery timelines and enhanced supply chain efficiency.