Grenoble, November 6, 2024 – Reflex (Hardis Group business unit), a leading provider of supply chain software, reports on the latest developments in the rollout of its Reflex WMS warehouse management system within Renault Group. In 2018, Renault Group opted to deploy the application with a view to improving real-time management of its storage areas and resources, enhancing stock reliability and traceability, and automating some of its processes.
Optimizing line-side logistics processes across all plants
Renault Group chose Reflex WMS to optimize line-side logistics processes at all its industrial sites worldwide as part of a broader supply chain digital transformation plan. The choice of the solution was mainly motivated by its robustness and its ability to manage in real time spaces and resources (operators and products to be supplied line-side). Renault’s supply chain team was also impressed by Hardis Group’s commitment to co-developing sector-specific features for industrial clients, including through twice-yearly meetings of a dedicated “manufacturing club”.
Rolling out Reflex WMS without outside support
Reflex WMS was first deployed at the Maubeuge plant on a pilot basis. Following this successful implementation, the software has gradually been implemented at other industrial sites in Europe, North Africa, and South America. Renault’s supply chain team is now able to roll out Reflex without outside support thanks to the creation of a core model that takes into account the group’s specific logistics requirements, as well as integrations with the manufacturer’s ERP, MES, TMS, and other tools and systems. Reflex is currently used at 14 of Renault Group’s 30-or-so sites around the world.
Key gains since the rollout of Reflex WMS
- Performance gains of 10–15% in storage area and stock management, as well as improved performance of parts flows
- Real-time monitoring of data and logistics flows
- Enhanced traceability at a time when the number of components contained in vehicles is on the rise
- Reduced carbon footprint: paperless processes and sustainable management of dispatch packaging
- Less technically complex onboarding of new logistics providers
Continuous updates and innovations
Since 2018, Hardis Group has updated Reflex WMS with new features that adress Renault Group’s specific requirements.
“Hardis Group regularly builds new updates and innovations into its products in order to keep pace with the changing requirements of its customers, both distributors and manufacturers,” said Radouane Maké, Supply Chain Inbound Process Engineering Manager WareHouse and Reflex deployment lead at Renault Group. “For instance, we’re currently testing a new ‘Drop and Swap’ feature at a pilot site in Romania, which aims to improve transport resource usage by limiting driver wait times at plants.”
In the coming months, Renault Group plans to test the Reflex Labor Management System module as it seeks additional logistics performance gains.
About Reflex (Hardis Group)
Reflex is a Hardis Group business unit. Its head office is located in Grenoble (France). It employs 1,700 people and posted revenues of €186.6 million in 2023.
Reflex publishes a modular software suite that helps orchestrate, optimize, and supervise logistics networks and locations (warehouses, factories, stores, drive-through collection points, etc.). Designed by logisticians for logisticians, these solutions seek to make the supply chain more efficient, collaborative, and sustainable, in a changing world. They are the result of 30 years of R&D, in close collaboration with nearly 450 customers.
Reflex operates in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and Italy, and works with a network of integrator partners to deploy its solutions worldwide.
The analyst firm Gartner has recognized Hardis Group as one of the major WMS vendors in Europe for its Reflex WMS software.
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Press contacts
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Hardis Group – Hélène Leclercq – helene.leclercq@hardis-group.com – Cell: +33 6 46 38 66 37