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Locations per month
900
Auditors
30
Pallet inspection
Audit
A company dealing in pallet and container pooling services, serving customers in a range of industrial and retail supply chains, required the support of RGIS. The company currently manage, maintain, transport and supply approximately 330 million platforms that are shared and reused by growers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
THE CHALLENGE
Having worked together previously for counting and reporting on the condition of pallets, the company approached RGIS to help support them in optimising the flow of pallets in circulation throughout Mexico.
- The pallet pooling service provider required RGIS to provide the following:
- An experienced team of RGIS auditors out in the field visiting retailers
- Accurately count all pallets and capture information about the condition of the pallets
- All data to be captured and reported electronically
Sectors
Why RGIS?
Customers use RGIS for counting and reporting on pallet condition because our trained teams deliver precise, on-site assessments with consistent documentation, giving businesses reliable visibility of stock, damage, and compliance across their supply chain.
Our Solutions
The pallet pooling service provider partnered with RGIS to complete the pallet flow optimisation project, and RGIS provided the following:
Scheduled an experienced team of approximately 30 RGIS auditors in the field and two RGIS auditors at the control desk
Both RGIS teams were trained to detect opportunities and risks in the operations while on visits, as well as filling out printed reports and uploading information onto a third-party platform utilized by the customer
A control desk was set up to enable RGIS teams to be monitored in real time, so reports could be instantly validated and uploaded on to the third-party platform
During the visits, RGIS field teams counted the number of pallets available, to make sure there were no problems with the collections. In cases where there was surplus stock, pallet collections were requested. Also reporting of any pallets that were not kept safely
Results
The pallet pooling service provider found that by outsourcing the pallet flow optimisation project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
RGIS accurately audit approximately 900 locations per month as requested by the customer, and this will increase over time
The audits were carried out satisfactorily, and the customer was very happy
Conclusion
Going forward, RGIS plan to merge the pallet optimisation project with the pallet inspection audits across retailers to provide a more unified solution.
