Supporting Competitive Challenges For Freight Operators.
Freight operators operate in a highly competitive market. Rolling stock performance, depot and maintenance operations all impact significantly on revenues and profits as well as the ability to deliver competitive transport services.
The challenges faced by train operators include:
- Safety
- Ensuring fleet availability and maximising fleet utilisation
- Managing and reducing operational costs
- Growing revenues and maintaining profitability
Turning Supply Chain Advantage Into Competitive Advantage
The supply chain has a significant impact on a freight fleet operator’s ability to meet these challenges. It does though present challenges of its own:
Why you should use Unipart Rail?
Vastly experienced in keeping freight operators trains running, our understanding of the rail industry, freight operators, rolling stock, the products, technology and supporting supply chain
is second to none.
- Ensuring parts availability across multiple suppliers and that parts adhere to the required quality, safety, regulatory standards.
- Efficient maintenance and depot operations that minimise downtime.
- Understanding and managing parts performance and its impact on overall train performance.
- Delivering new innovation to bring new efficiencies to improve customer experience.
Unipart Rail’s service is underpinned by significant investment in processes, systems and a team specialising in new product development, customer service, supplier management and engineering. Our dedicated engineering team ensures supplied products are safe and meet both standards and legislative requirements.
Our continual innovation and investment in people and systems sees us lead in the development of the Condition Based Supply Chain to deliver new freight fleet management efficiencies.
Case Studies...
Freightliner
SmartServe Solution
Freightliner approached Unipart Rail as they were opening a new depot and were looking for an innovative solution that would support their maintenance activities. Unipart Rail’s SmartServe solution provides
a flexible and scalable solution that can be fine-tuned to customer requirements.
Northern Rail
Depot Stores Management
Unipart Rail’s World Class depot stores facility was operational in less than 3 months, delivering fantastic results including 98% stock accuracy, 97% availability and 50% reduction in defects.