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'Savoir Faire' How Savoye brings innovation to the logistics industry

Business Review is honored to present Savoye as our Company of the Month feature. Savoye is a division of the Legris Industries, an international materials handling business that designs and produces customized products and turnkey solutions for industries demanding the highest levels of supply chain expertise.

A proven innovator in the fields of logistics processes and technologies, Savoye is well regarded as an integrator of intelligent solutions for warehouses. The East Midlands based business provides the right level of automation: from analysis and design, through to manufacturing of machines and complete systems, software editing and equipment integration to implementation and service. Its technologies and equipment in the fields of automated order fulfillment, mechanization of dispatch packaging, automated pallet storage and non-automated storage equipment are created to best suit the needs of each industry sector. The company operates in most industrial sectors and excels in the food and drink, fashion, retailing, pharmaceutical, FMCG and stationery products markets.

This pioneering company is established in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, the Benelux countries, Italy, Russia and also represented in Scandinavia, the Middle East, the United States and China.

Through its market leading LM7 product, Savoye leads in the development of IT solutions for warehouse flow, transport and supply chain management. Savoye delivers the ‘state-of-the-art’ in terms of software development, project management, quality assurance and consulting ability. Due to its highly versatile and flexible usability, the specially developed software is extensively applied to a wide range of logistics tasks for industrial sectors such as food and drink, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and retail.

Savoye is also a one-stop-shop for lifetime after sales services: full service maintenance and intervention on site, 24/7 multilingual hotline support, spares and assistance for on-site engineers and software specialists. The company’s tailor-made solutions enhance the efficiency and improve the work life of thousands of users and millions of their clients. Savoye is committed to environmentally friendly, sustainable development, to the design of ergonomic solutions and to the increasing quality of working conditions. Innovative technologies such as its Picking Tray System (PTS) and Jivaro help reduce the consumption of energy and consumables. Research and development is focused on the optimization of computer controlled systems, order fulfillment and storage and is driven forward by an ongoing R&D investment.

Martin Elliot of Savoye (pictured right) says of the company: ‘’Savoye’s success is built on its people: the company not only takes responsibility for qualifying and training its employees to a high level of expertise, it also embraces its clients to harness its knowledge and skills to maximize performance. The company’s promise to customers is simple: it delivers best-fit logistics solutions to businesses, on budget on time – every time’’.

Savoye is exhibiting at this year’s IMHX event at the NEC, Birmingham 16-19 November 2010.  

Article published in Business Review_ Aprile 2010.