1. Ports of Indiana – 21st Century Logistics Symposium Thomson, Inc David Blackburn 16 September, 2003
                              
                              
                              
               
               
               
               
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2. Thomson – Consumer Products Logistics
Responsible for managing transportation and warehousing in a cost effective manner, while meeting retail partners supply chain requirements
Broad Product portfolio: Television, Video, Audio, Telephones, Digital Set-Top Boxes, Accessories
Three regional Distribution Centers
Los Angeles – West Coast
Indianapolis – Midwest – East Coast
El Paso – Manufactured Product
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3. Thomson – Consumer Products Logistics
High level of activity
250K outbound shipments per year, approximately 600 Million pounds
12K FCL Ocean shipments
Distribution Centers comprise 2.8M square feet of warehousing
Manage logistics with key 3PL partners
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4. Thomson – Indianapolis DC
House multiple warehousing functions in 1.4 million square feet: Consumer Products Bulk, Accessories Pick-Pack, Display Storage, After Sales Spare Parts storage and fulfillment
Consumer Products
35K outbound shipments, approximately 150 Million pounds
LTL – 75% of orders, 20% of the weight
OTR – 15% of orders, 60% of the weight
IMD – 10% of orders, 20% of the weight
Primarily to customer DC’s
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5. Thomson – Indianapolis DC
Accessories Pick-Pack
85K shipments small parcel
Ramping to 50M unit capacity
Inbound shipments primarily IMD, or Ocean IPI
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6. Thomson - Challenges Retail partner requirements more demanding
Various compliance programs
Shorter order to delivery cycle times
Lower inventory, no margin for error
Productivity, and Cost variability
Consolidated loads
Cube utilization
Mode Mix
Carrier performance
3PL execution
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7. Thomson - Challenges
Integrate Logistics into suite of services to build for the future
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8. Thomson – Indiana IMD service to Indianapolis
Lack of major Hub creates issues for cost and execution
Dray cost from Chicago is significant
Coordination of Dray, and equipment has negative impact on service
All water East Coast imports is a threat
Cost is competitive with West Coast/Trans Con IMD import
Transit time improvements
East Coast DC has shorter lead times
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9. Ports of Indiana – 21st Century Logistics Symposium Thomson, Inc David Blackburn 16 September, 2003
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