FM Logistic in Russia is forward and up

31 May 2019

Sales volumes and turnover of the company FM Logistic in Russia is constantly increasing and she is getting ready for rapid transformation

At the annual press event of the company FM Logistic in Russia of the company in the Russian market in 2018-2019 fiscal year and projections for the current period reported: General Director of FM Logistic in Central and Eastern Europe Christoph Minibar, operations Director FM Logistic in Russia Alexey Barmin, Director of information technology, processes and innovation of FM Logistic in Russia, Dmitry Fedorov and Director of personnel and communications at FM Logistic in Russia Maria Shipovalova (photo on the splash screen).

During the press-conference speakers were considered in detail:
1. The results of the work in the past financial year (April 2018 – March 2019)

So, in the previous financial year, the turnover of FM Logistic in Russia amounted to ₽18.5 billion, 11% more than in 2017-2018.

The share of warehouse logistics in the company's portfolio of services amounted to 61.5%, transport logistics took 32.8 per cent, co-packing and packaging of 5.7 percent. The distribution of the turnover of FM Logistic in the framework of a client's portfolio as follows: 36% in the retail sector, 28.1 per cent of industrial production, 22.2% FMCG, 13,1% – perfumes and cosmetics, 0.6% of pharmaceuticals.
  
April 2018 – March 2019 total investment of FM Logistic in the Russian market amounted to more than ₽658 million the Bulk of this amount, the company allocated for the purchase of equipment and implementation of technology. So, the development staff spent ₽33.9 million Total number of employees of the company 7926 people. For the purchase of equipment spent ₽624,15 million

The volume of warehouse space, which operates FM Logistic has increased to 812 730 thousand m² due to the expansion of platforms in the Moscow region. All under the control of the company there are 27 platforms.


2. Preliminary results of the fiscal year 2019-2020.

According to forecasts of the General Director of FM Logistic in Central and Eastern Europe Christoph Minivera, 2019-2020 financial year the company will complete turnover ₽20,35 billion.

The amount of warehouse space will amount to 872 730 thousand m² at the expense of the growth areas in Rostov-on-don, Yekaterinburg and Moscow region. FM Logistic is planning to invest ₽1,145 billion to accelerate the transformation of the company.

3. Current and future strategic projects of the company:
– the opening of new areas:



In January of 2019 a warehouse Dolgoprudny began work with a pharmaceutical products. Operations and warehouse equipment fully comply with the strict standards in force in Europe. This year, FM Logistic plans to own pharmaceutical license, and also to implement a project for the serialization of drugs in accordance with the norms of the Russian legislation.



The transport sector remains one of the most important in the development strategy of the company. The increase in turnover of 20.2 % compared to last year. Positive trend is primarily the development of the service teams car deliveries in trading networks. Promising for the company's teams train departure from Moscow region to the regions of the Urals, Siberia, the Far East and Kamchatka.

– investments in new technologies:

FM Logistic continues to introduce new technologies and implementing projects for digitalization.

The company has launched several pilot projects on the technology of Robot Process Automation – introduced to the server the bot automatically handles customer emails in the future technology will be more widely distributed.

FM Logistic, one of the first on the market tested the electronic delivery note (ETN) – the project was implemented in July 2018 in conjunction with the company Synerdocs and continues its development.

Started Customer Supply Chain Portal – personal account where customers can request for shipping and tracking all necessary information for your order.

Also launched a job portal for avisale transport Yard Management.

One of the most significant events of FM Logistic in the previous fiscal year was the delivery of the B2C market with a new package service for customers e-commerce sector. Logistics operator together with its partners offers service postal training, main carriage, on the last mile delivery, cod amount and returns processing, as well as the organization of the call center. The company in this case acts as an aggregator of delivery services, the online shop will require the integration of IT systems only with FM Logistic.

The company has developed a system for processing online orders (Order Management System) platform Magento, one of the best in its class.
The largest increase at 30.3% showed a division of Global Supply Chain responsible for international transportation and customs clearance. This is due to the attraction of new customers, as well as the emergence of new popular services. For example, running the Express shipping FTL and LTL shipments from Europe to Russia. This service is in high demand among customers in the segments of "luxury" cosmetics. For the optimization of logistics costs for Europe was launched another cross-dock platform in Poland.

Department of multimodal transport have increased their rates this year twice. Service for the delivery of goods from Southeast Asia via the far East showed an increase both in physical and monetary terms. 
Membership in IATA has allowed to increase the number of transported air cargo 2.5 times. The customs Department has increased turnover by 26% compared to the previous period. Growth has occurred also through expanding the geography of the Declaration: the Declaration of goods in the Voronezh and Novosibirsk.

In the direction of co-packing, FM Logistic has launched a new service for the implementation of promanage turnkey – Lean design & Copack. Development projects with one company from concept to complete set allows to reduce the project implementation period, to guarantee high-quality solutions for Assembly and logistics, as well as to reduce the overall budget for the preparation of promproekt– in some cases up to 20-40%, including production of all materials, co-packing, and transportation.
4. Assessment of the current situation on the logistics market and trends of its development.






background: company FM Logistic provides a full range of services in supply chain management such as warehousing, transportation by all modes of transport, packing and packaging, customs clearance.
In Russia the company successfully develops a network of regional warehouses in the Moscow region (Dmitrov, Dolgoprudny, Czechs, etc.) and in eight major cities: St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-don, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. As well as warehouses with cross-dock operations in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk and other.
Sphere of activity: retail, food products, products 'fresh' category, consumer goods and personal care products, luxury goods and cosmetics, industrial products and electronics, medical supplies.
FM Logistic – partner in logistics for manufacturers and retail chains: Auchan, Leroy Merlin, L'oreal, Henkel, Bosch, Philips and others..