Carrefour has joined forces with consulting firm bp2r to assess its transport performance on acountry level, to identify best practices and boost supply chain efficiencies within all of its Europeanoperations.
Planet Retail revealed that the leading French retailer's evaluation programme is made up of four steps, beginning with the introduction of a transport framework for the group, consisting of 115 criteria broken down intoseven areas such as organisation and management structure, buying/sourcing, operational performance and performance monitoring.
In the second step, Carrefour's operations in Spain and Belgium have been closely examined, testing the newly set up framework, creating a database and best practices, lasting until year-end 2010.
There will also be a widespread assessment of Carrefour's European operations, marking the third step of the group's performance programme.
