U-Freight provides a range of supply chain solutions to the global automotive industry and is helping manufacturers and suppliers to implement leaner, more efficient supply chains that support new model development and shorter product life cycles.
These services include managing the logistics of inbound services and delivering production line components, inventory services including inventory financing and procurement, configuration and preparation of sub-assembly facilities, as well as the physical movement of assemblies within production plants.
In addition, the group is also able to offer intercontinental freight management services and after-market operations, including supplying spare parts to dealer networks and after-sales operations.
Benefits from Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery of components to manufacturing plants include:
-- continuous deliveries
-- minimum stock inventory
-- integrated sub-assembly and final assembly operations
-- more efficient organization of production
U-Freight's pace setting IT services also benefit companies in the automotive sector which are able to use U-Freight's computerized inventory management tools to help optimize JIT operations.