Line feed logistics at all five of JLR’s UK manufacturing plants were up for tender
In an unprecedented move, JLR tendered the line feed logistics at all five of its UK manufacturing plants earlier this year. This is driven by their Reimagine strategy announced back in April 2023. JLR committed to an investment of £15bn over the next five years in their industrial footprint, vehicle programmes, autonomous, AI and digital technologies and people skills. The Reimagine strategy outlined their exciting plans to accelerate its transition to become the world’s leading modern luxury car manufacturer.
A realistic, pragmatic approach was rewarded
Rudolph and Hellmann were strategic in their selection of contracts up for tender, and opted to participate in just two of those they were invited to respond to. JLR were interested in finding out why we’d only responded to the invitations to tender for EPMC and BAC, we explained these were more realistic contracts based upon our current size, and we’d identified a variety of improvements where we felt we could implement significant improvements across the duration of the contract. The JLR team responsible for the contract negotiations said they were impressed with our pragmatic approach and technical competence. A bonus-malus system was used to select JLR’s line feed logistics partners based upon a criteria of technical solutions, competence and price. The contracts were all initially due to commence April 1st 2025, allowing March for the onboarding processes. Given an understanding of the changes being implemented, our projects team thought it made more sense for the EPMC contract to start in January. With agreement from the incumbent to handover early, and a robust implementation plan, R&HA were given the green light to proceed with this bold move.
