Grenoble, Madrid, 25 September 2024 – Luís Simões, a major player in the logistics and transport sector in Spain and Portugal, has chosen Reflex WMS, a software solution developed by Reflex, a Hardis Group business unit, to manage all of its 58 logistics and cross-docking centres spread across the Iberian Peninsula. This strategic decision is part of a drive to improve the efficiency and reliability of its operations, and to give the company the means to adapt quickly and autonomously to changing customer demands.
Luís Simões, the Iberian reference for quality of service in the transport and logistics sector.
Founded in 1948, Luís Simões is a family business that has established itself as the leader in road transport between Spain and Portugal, and now has over 2,400 employees. The company has been present and growing strongly in Spain since 1988. It expects this market to account for 50% of group sales within two years.
To meet its customers’ delivery requirements, Luís Simões relies on logistics operations centres (LOCs), transport operations centres (TOCs) and subcontracted platforms. The LOCs offer integrated logistics services (including customer stock management) and cross-docking operations. In subcontracted platforms, only cross-docking activities are carried out. The combination of these three types of infrastructure and their locations makes it possible to combine and optimise transport and distribution flows, routes and resources.
In total, Luís Simões handles 9,710 e-commerce shipments every day and manages more than 10 million picking units per month.
A new WMS to optimise complex and growing flows
The logistics provider has chosen Reflex WMS warehouse management software to replace its existing system. The decision has several objectives:
- Optimise its logistics processes: the solution will facilitate the implementation of new optimisation strategies for inbound and outbound operations, improve overall warehouse efficiency and provide a global view of operations.
- Automate processes to speed up picking and make it more reliable: Reflex WMS can be easily integrated with advanced warehouse automation technologies such as AGVs, stacker cranes and pick-to-light order picking systems.
- Significantly reduce the number of order-picking errors, to improve customer satisfaction, a key point in Luís Simões’ service commitment.
- Improve productivity and manage a higher volume of orders with the same resources, by reducing the number of manual interventions and optimising processes overall.
- Gain global visibility and control over logistics operations in real time using Reflex Visibility.
- Get a flexible and scalable solution to support the growth of Luís Simões’ business and enable the company to adapt easily and autonomously to the changing needs of each of its customers.
Antonio Fernandes, Director of Innovation and Projects at Luís Simões, states: ‘The deployment of Reflex WMS marks a crucial step for us. This software will not only enable us to increase our operational efficiency, but also to respond more quickly to the fluctuating demands of our customers, while maintaining our high-quality standards.’
About Luís Simões
With 74 years of history, Luís Simões is synonymous with adapting to change. A Group that is 100% family owned by the Luís Simões family, that includes ten companies and a variety of services, its core business being the road freight transport and logistics sector, accounting for 95% of its turnover. Luís Simões is a leading logistics operator, a leader in roadway transport between the two Iberian countries, currently present in over 30 locations and with 2,456 direct employees.
Luís Simões entered the Spanish market in 1988, where it has experienced constant growth, and expects that within two years this market will account for 50% of the group’s turnover. Its logistics and transport chain is made up of logistics operations centres (LOCs), transport operations centres (TOCs) and subcontracting platforms, which allow configuration of transport corridors and flows between logistics operations centres (known as Intercol), enabling optimised planning of routes and resources to meet customers’ delivery requirements.
www.luis-simoes.com/en/
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.
www.reflex-logistics.com/en
www.hardis-group.com/en
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