Since NTG Gondrand has been the supplier of automotive industry participants for a long time, the company knows exactly what the requirements and the demands of the industry are, and professionally supports its customers in their day-to-day operations.

The JIT/JIS expectations of automotive industry production request pre-regulated work processes, disciplined work, continuous and consistent follow-up from all the participants. Such a logistics system can be operated only with properly trained and committed staff, and cooperation expertise and up-to-date information technology. Reliable and inspected transport vehicle capacity, multimodal services, warehouse infrastructure, 4PL abilities, and dedicated expert contacts – these are all parts of our solution.

For us, partnership trust is based on being organized, and on transparent costs and processes and monitored collaboration. Our expert team continuously develops solutions following market demands, so we can offer a competitive advantage to our customers.

Our automotive industry supply chain logistics solution has been proving itself for years and it is highly sought after; its main elements, besides the combination of our base service, contain modern industry-specific activities.

• Consultation for planning and optimizing routes, defining customer-specific Trans Shipment Points locations
• Contract management: Optimizing schedules and work processes, company group solutions, control tower concept
• Continuous follow-up: Purchase Order follow up in Procurement
• Road transportation in export and import routes, specialized for automotive industry requirements; costs vary depending on volumes to be transported
• Temporary or permanent storage, consignment storage, VMI forms specialized for automotive industry requirements
• Arranging air freight in case of urgent transports
• Sea freight for intercontinental transportation
• Supplementary customs administration service, obtaining customs permits and customs guarantee
• Alert and escalation system
• E-document management, web on-line tracking & tracing, reporting
• Cargo, property and liability insurance
• Express courier tasks
• Feedback for optimization of the supply chain (procurement, manufacturing, sales)

The challenges of machine and machine part supply logistics are the difference in the geographical, dimensional and time scheduling of the goods to transport, which can be very significant.

The key to a good logistics solution is to be able to harmonize the requirements continually, in other words, to be able to look for and find synergies in the work processes. In the case of complete machines, the general logistics job is to get them to the user economically from the manufacturing plant or distribution center using international shipping and with acceptable transit time.  In the case of machine parts, however, most of the tasks are to ship small cargo with immediate priority; so-called micro-transport tasks.

The requirement of short transit times and the fact that the process involves international shipping often generate significant customs administration responsibilities in transportation, warehousing and customs management.  In case of goods returned, inverse logistics must often overcome lack of goods customs administration, identification or packaging. Inventory management must follow all these in all requirement areas.

Whether it is the domestic or global transportation of office equipment, machines or medical equipment, NTG Gondrand Kft. has developed a competent and complex logistics solution by the combination of expert base services.

• Customer and document tracking at the supplier
• Supplier coordination when taking shipments
• Goods and information batching at the Trans Shipment Points (TSP)
• Consolidation of shipments and partial shipments from the international supply markets
• Road-, air-, and maritime transport
• Sorting the incoming goods and receiving them in the warehouse or transporting them directly to the customer
• Warehousing service, expert storage of complete machines, machine parts and return goods
• Inventory registration and management
• Packaging, delivering and erecting machines directly at the customer through dedicated service and delivery team
• Collecting machine parts from suppliers to the TSP points, re-commissioning and delivery to the site of assembly using overnight / JIS / JIT transport.
• IT and web electronic data exchange connection, Tracking & Tracing,  Management Information System (MIS)
• Collecting, storing, re-packaging and exemption of return goods
• Arranging disposal or scrapping according to the relevant regulations (for instance WEEE)
• Customs administration service, public customs warehouse and tax-warehouse applications, tracking customs status