• Transport, a new component of differentiation.
  In a highly competitive world, the offer of companies is becoming more and more comprehensive: beyond of the intrinsic quality of products and their prices, companies must strive to add value to all of their services to differentiate their offer.
  
  In this context, the nature of the transport business is changing: in the past, service was banal without any real added value; now transport is increasingly becoming a full-fledged component of the offer.
  
  Like all aspects of its offer, transport must contribute to the differentiation that every business seeks to establish: price differentiation and/or differentiation through the services built around the product.
  
  
• Transportation, a balance to be found between personalization and industrialization
  Making transport an element of differentiation compared to the competition requires that a firm develop made-to-order services that mesh perfectly with the company's production, commercial or organizational limitations.
  
  The service provided by the partner transport must thus be personalized for each company.
  
  At the same time, the need to increase productivity implies the adoption of industrial transportation plans. Reconciling personalization and industrialization is the new challenge facing the transport business and it must start with the transport logistics provider.
  
  
• Flow management
  Before, transport was still limited to the physical conveyance of material, but it now encompasses the notion of flow management: product flows at the core, but also information flows in parallel with financial flows.
  
  The transport provider thus moves from the role of an operator/sub-contractor to that of a manager/overseer creating value through service.
  
  From now on, the notion of service quality includes not just the proper realization of transport services, but also the implementation of an ongoing improvement system to provide our customers with optimal service.

• A veritable transmission belt between the industrial manufacturer and customer-recipients, the shipping partner must meet three basic requirements:
  > Reliability to limit the causes of non-quality on a daily basis
  > Responsiveness to manage the unexpected events and business fluctuations inherent to all shipping activities that can be experienced by manufacturers, distributors, end customers or transportation companies.
  > Notification of the smooth execution of services, but also, more importantly, notification when there is an incident.
  
• Beyond these three basic expectations, our customers seek to provide :
  > Capable of accompanying it in its geographic, organizational, commercial or computer developments, etc.
  > Capable of ensuring fully adapted, reliable business reporting that makes it possible to measure the performance of the transport/logistics partner and to carry out a policy of ongoing improvement.

For over 50 years, Geodis BM has developed a veritable know-how in the field of shipping: Full loads and partial batches, shipping on demand, dedicated or rental, direct flows or platform-oriented, delivery trips and inter-site trips…
Beyond material resources, Geodis BM has built software and organizational tools to respond to the specific problem areas and limitations of each of its customers.

Nevertheless, ground transport is not an end in itself, so Geodis BM has developed expertise in managing other means of transportation.
Geodis BM has thus massively invested in the combined rail-road mode by developing a comprehensive offer: expert unit, reservation of a Geodis BM dedicated line to ensure a daily roundtrip liaison between Paris and Northern France and Italy, purchase of swap bodies to offer an adaptable fleet that is in perfect working order.

But providing transport services also depends on the ability to find the most appropriate container, in addition to the choice of a means of transport.
In this vein, Geodis BM has created BM Pack Service, which organizes the entire logistics chain of IBCs (rental, transport, washing, storage, maintenance, computerized follow-up and tracking).
Finally, to find the best modal solution, Geodis BM has acquired expertise in organizing transport plans and has gained competency in specialized services: studies bureau, methods bureau and an information technology service that is at the cutting edge of techniques and technology.

Yet because transport is but one component of a logistics chain that includes multiple operations, Geodis BM has also developed some complementary know-how. Therefore, Geodis BM has created Perfectrans, an audit, prevention and training company recognized by public authorities that provides in-house and outside courses in economical or safe conveyance and the handling of hazardous materials.
Similarly, thanks to its experience, Geodis BM offers and organizes safety audits for well-known shippers that are sensitive to the risks of the road and the industry.

Similarly, and in synergy with the Geodis teams, Geodis BM implements logistics solutions designed around the most complex transportation plans, whether it be storage, pre- or post-manufacturing operations, original assembly operations or cross-docking.

• Because each business sector has its own culture, means of organization and specific expectations, Geodis BM is organized into five strategic divisions :
  > A Gas-Chemicals Division that, beyond safety, also develops transport logistics with high added value.
  > A General Cargo Division that defines the optimum organization for its customers in the interest of reconciling productivity with quality of service
  >An Automobile Division that is the logistics extension of the industrial excellence of its customers thanks to its expertise in tight flows and synchronous deliveries
  > A Mass Distribution Division that combines industrialization of upstream logistics and reliability and responsiveness of downstream logistics to serve end consumers.
  > An Air Press Division that shares its customers' dynamic in a setting of tight flows where time control and high-quality service are indispensable.
  
  
• Because the business of transport and logistics remains a service industry operated by people, Geodis BM provides for the perfect coordination of a central structure with shared back office tools and regional establishments that guarantee responsiveness and proximity on a daily basis.
  
  
• Because the flow of information is at the heart of modern logistics, Geodis BM has invested in an IT team that generates the most up-to-date solutions that are, more importantly, the most appropriate for its customers..

In a win-win relationship, Geodis BM agrees to accompany its customers in their various evolutions and mobilize all of its resources to develop, implement and manage the most appropriate transport and logistics solution.

Combine the ongoing quest for productivity with the attainment of quality levels worthy of your customers.

Innovate with you to transform your transport logistics into a real differentiation tool that enhances your competitiveness.