Accurate timing: Tenneco’s multi-modal plans.

To ensure that operations on its own conveyor belts and its customers’ assembly lines continue smoothly around the clock, Tenneco Automotive, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of exhaust and chassis systems, relies on HGVs that can be deployed flexibly.

The initial situation

Each year, 4,390 HGV loads are required to move products between its European production sites and its regional and central warehouses. However, the situation on European roads is making short-interval just-in-time deliveries increasingly difficult.

The requirement

In order to ensure that its own conveyor belts and its customers’ assembly lines continue to enjoy a high degree of supply security, this automotive component supplier wants to integrate the waterborne and rail modes to a greater extent. Its warehousing strategy also plays a key role here.

The result

The SPC was able to identify ten routes on which a modal shift was possible. These routes are used by 1,892 HGVs each year. In most cases, the waterborne mode offers the better options:

• Generates new freight space resources.
• The transport systems perform an additional function as intermediate storage.
• Greater security of supply because the flow of traffic is largely undisrupted.
• Optimized environmental performance.