Transparency is a subject EPC’s, manufacturers and project owners are talking about lately and not without good reason. Withholding information from customers, not disclosing price and rate structures and poor communication is all too common within logistics service companies. But […]
Project Logistics Management
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In early 2020, we have secured approximately 300,000 sqm of land at the port of Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. We have divided the land into zones and the entire area will now be known as Europort Business Park […]
In this articles, we’ll talk about definition and a brief history of the XELLZ Project Logistics Control Centers (PLCC), its importance, different usage scenarios in several sectors, its infrastructure, how we came to choose the right technology, integration of all […]
In any given project, there are many unified tasks, milestones, dependencies, costs, resources, deliverables, that need to be cautiously managed. In addition to that, many times a project logistics manager is simultaneously managing many different logistics projects, all with different […]
Project Logistics Visibility is all about how organizations capture and interconnect data to perform critical project logistics execution information. It provides a single view for tracking information, material and/or cost by monitoring key dimensions in a global project logistics, such […]
Developing a project logistics plan can be a daunting task. Putting together a well-crafted document that includes all necessary tasks, milestones, assignments and details can take significant effort and, in many cases, presents the planner with obstacles preventing smooth plan […]
XELLZ Operational Excellence (OpEx) has been an area that has been given substantial attention inside our organization and for good reasons. With project logistics management teams looking to find new optimization avenues by bringing their services to our customers both […]
Many of us are wondering what the new year will bring for us, as well as what it will take to keep our individual organizations on top. If you haven’t thought about it yet, chances are that any amount of […]
At XELLZ we believe that it is our responsibility to operate lean and with no duplication of processes and creating project logistics cost savings while on a project for our customer. It’s our core believe that only when processes and […]
Technology Breakthrough for Project Management XELLZ’s CEO & President, Peter Bouwhuis, provided insight into the effects of new technologies for project management during his Breakbulk Showcase: Breakbulk Technology Breakthrough– Project Logistics Management at Breakbulk Southeast Asia 2017 in Kuala Lumpur […]
To be a project logistics manager is not an easy job. It’s not enough to design and create project logistics plans and delegate tasks to the team(s). First think, you have to be a leader, a people manager and a […]
Total cost management (TCM) is the project cost engineering element that we often overlook when estimating for project logistics as part of a capital project. The concept has been around since the 1990s and is part of a process called “Total […]
A major contributor to the success of projects is the availability of project logistics managers, with high levels of experience both in the industry and with project delivery as well as having them available in the early stages of the project. Large […]
How Mobility and IoT are Transforming the Project Logistics Like any function in business, the project transport & logistics is beset with challenges. Rising expenses, volatile fuel cost, increasing competition, large volumes of data, and ever-changing industry demands all come […]
A Sharing Economy has proven that the quick development of technology and social change are powerful drivers of business models and cost revolution. Lessons learned from many industry sectors gives us valuable case studies of how to apply sharing across […]
XELLZ has made significant investments in technology, hoping to gain competitive advantages in today’s project logistics management and project freight industry sector. Traditional project freight organisational structures are rigid and highly bureaucratic. Previous evidence has shown that they cannot quickly […]
Project Logistics 4.0 (PL4.0) is more than just a slogan. A convergence of trends and technologies promises to redesign the way things are delivered. Project Logistics 4.0 to most shipper’s executives will raise eyebrows. If they’ve heard of it, they […]
As stated in earlier posts, properly defining XELLZ Operational Excellence (XOE) is one of the crucial elements in our organization’s journey to project logistics industry-leading performance. With actionable and measurable definitions of XOE, it is impossible to align our organization […]