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Case Study - Abbott Laboratories Limited
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Revised
Operations & Integration of Acquired Business
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Abbott
Laboratories - manufacture chemicals and
pharmaceutical products for both the UK market and export to the
other Abbott operations worldwide
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the brief
- we had previously carried out a UK Warehousing & Distribution
Strategy Review for the client. The review considered their existing
sales and throughput qualified by Abbott's 5 year predictions with a
broad 5-10 year outlook.
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Growth in many business sectors had been even greater
than anticipated and there had also been some changes to the structure of
the business in the interim. Therefore the client required us to
revisit and extend the scope of the previous study in the form of a new Logistics
Strategy Review.
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the approach - as Supply Chain Planning Limited had a
reasonable knowledge and understanding of the organisation and
personalities involved, the familiarisation process was quickly
completed. Initially we collected data on the increased growth in
throughput and sales that was not anticipated when our original analysis
was carried out. During the time between the initial project and
this new study the growth to manufacturing had resulted in the need for
expanding production into the warehousing area, meaning pallet capacity
had been considerably reduced. We looked at a number of options to
increase storage capacity, but first it was most important to dispose of
all redundant unwanted stock. Then we prepared a number of other
options to increase capacity:-
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Re-designing the Queenborough Facility
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Re-locating some activities to the Wentworth Facility
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Expansion by building-on site
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Outsourced storage
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Rented storage off site
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The strategy project also reviewed the product
distribution by looking at the patterns of deliveries and the cost per
package for each of the carriers. After analysing this we made
recommendation on the suitability and cost-efficiency of each of the
client's current chosen distribution suppliers.
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the results - the
client has successfully implemented our recommended set of initiatives to
meet their future requirements for both storage and distribution.
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Next Case Study
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