Arnott's Executive Summary

Major customer: Campbell Arnott’s (Biscuits and Snack Foods)

Arnott’s has developed in the recent 144 years, and it has been recognised as a piece of Australian history and a national icon. Today, Arnott’s has been one of the leading food companies in Asia Pacific region with a variety of produce covering sweet, snacks, soup and juices. Strengthening the market share of chocolate industrial is their next step to go.

Arnott’s provide more than 4,500 job opportunities for Australians, and other several thousand people work for Arnott’s in the Asia Pacific countries such as New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. In Australia, there are seven manufacturing sites located in Sydney (Three), Melbourne, Shepparton, Brisbane and Adelaide
Some farmers, like those in the Riverina growing soft wheat, can sell their entire crops to Arnott's • 25,000 tonnes of sugar from far North Queensland • 3,900 tonnes of dairy products from Victoria • 405 tonnes of canola oil sourced from canola crops in Western New South Wales.
Linfox and Arnott’s began to cooperate with each other in August 2004, and Arnott’s outsourced around 80% of its Australian logistics operations to Linfox. The reason why Arnott’s choose Linfox is that Linfox is famous for the ability of establishing a cooperative culture with its customers. Linfox could fit distinct requirements of volume and handling, and it also has the resources to arrange and ensure the huge network running at one time.

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The contract of Linfox and Arnott’s

Linfox Logistics’ Supply Chain Solutions Group has a contract with Arnott’s to promote the level of value of Arnott’s, from logistics network and distribution centres, inventory control. The crucial principle is to make sure that Linfox provide the most efficient technology available to serve customers better. It is responsible to Arnott’s transportation, distribution management, transition arrangement and storage management.

Linfox and Campbell Arnott’s signed a contract about several stages to improve some requirements. The three steps are shown below

Step 1:
Linfox take the responsibility of manage the Arnott’s current biscuits and snack foods warehouse as a major outsourcing project agreed by Linfox.

Step 2:
Linfox provides sufficient support to the logistics transition apart from the direct store delivery model to a central warehouse