Vanguard Logistics Services is the leading neutral freight consolidation service, offering forwarders and customers of all sizes the world’s largest owned LCL end-to-end network, unparalleled schedule integrity, and industry-leading information technology applications. With over 120 owned offices spread across more than 30 countries, offering in excess of 1200 direct services every week, Vanguard delivers the most extensive end-to-end control of customers shipments. Including trusted partners and agents this network expands our footprint to more than 100 countries. Vanguard has also been consistently adding to its capabilities, building a large range of value-added services around its core LCL competency, including FCL, inland trucking and solutions and extensive CFS capabilities. Whatever your needs, check out our solutions at vanguardlogistics.com.
At the forefront of the UK’s technology driven logistics sector, Advanced Supply Chain Group provides intelligent, international supply chain solutions to retailers, brands and manufacturers.
Using our unique intelligent supply chain model we design innovative solutions to solve complex challenges. We unlock new opportunities for our customers, and speed up and streamline existing processes by removing complexity from the supply chain. This all adds up to reduced costs, better speed to market and fine control of getting the right thing to the right place at the right time.
Our approach has underpinned our customers’ success for 25 years, which has been recognised with a number of industry awards. Together, we’ve established Advanced Supply Chain Group as the partner of choice to many of the world’s most admired and successful brands.
SmartOps, an SAP Company, is the market leader in enterprise-class inventory optimization software and supply chain analytics. Our innovative customers — including Campbell's, Celestica, Danfoss, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Eastman Chemical, Kellogg, Lexmark, Lubrizol, Medtronic, Merck, Micron, Pfizer, PPG, Polaris, Unilever and others — require supply chain planning solutions that are designed for the rigors of the real world and capable of managing uncertainty in complex, multistage supply chains. High-performance supply chains like theirs — and yours — require trustworthy inventory planning targets to reduce working capital and increase profitability.
In April, 2013, SmartOps was acquired by SAP.