How Jutland Machinery moves stock between depots without urgent runs

Company Overview

Jutland Machinery holds stock across three depots. When one depot ran short, a dedicated vehicle was sent from another, often the same day and almost always half empty.

Challenge

• Two to three urgent interdepot runs a week, each on a dedicated and largely empty vehicle
• Shortages were discovered at the point of picking, when only an urgent run could fix them
• Urgent transfers cost roughly four times a planned move per unit
• Vehicles already travelling between the same two depots went out with spare capacity

Solution

• Stock levels are checked against thresholds daily, so shortages surface days before they bite
• FerroTrack and FerroRoute places transfers onto vehicles already scheduled between those depots
• Genuinely urgent moves still happen, but they are now the exception rather than the routine
• Transfer cost per unit is reported, which made the old approach impossible to defend

Results

• Urgent interdepot runs fell from two to three a week to about one a month
• Transfer cost per unit dropped by around 70 percent
• Stock availability at the picking face improved from 94 percent to 99 percent
• Existing interdepot vehicle movements now run substantially fuller

Customer Testimonial

"Nobody was doing anything wrong. A depot manager with a shortage sends a van, that is the right decision with the information they had. The change was giving them the information three days earlier, when a planned trip is still an option."

Anders Bak, Supply Chain Lead, Jutland Machinery

Key Benefits

• Daily threshold checks that surface shortages early
• Transfers placed on already scheduled vehicles
• Urgent runs reduced to genuine exceptions
• Transfer cost per unit made visible

Ferro & Sons Logistics gave Jutland Machinery three days of warning instead of three hours, turning urgent interdepot runs into planned capacity.