Description
CEVA is one of the world’s leading LSP’s, in freight forwarding, contract logistics, transportation management and distribution management. A non-listed company. CEVA employ more than 51,000 people and run a global network with facilities in more than 170 countries. The combined revenues in fiscal year 2011 were €6.9 billion

Opportunities
At the end of the lease period of their Maastricht multi client warehouse CEVA decided to move to a new state of the art warehouse in Born. CEVA requested project management and engineering support for this project.

Solution

Project management:

• A project plan was made including deliverables, MS project schedule and project budget overall and for and with the workstreams.
• The project execution was managed through Progress reporting on schedule and budget.
• Temporary (IT) solutions were set in place to allow for implementing a new client before the move was started.

Engineering:

• To be processes were designed and documented and implemented in the new IT systems.
• The lay-out design was detailed out.
• Move planning process was set-up and managed

Benefits

• Seamless start-up in the new facility, no interruptions in the services to the clients.
• Facility handover from landlord to CEVA properly and formally documented.
• Flexible lay-out design to support now and future multi client requirements.
• Upgrade to new WMS.