Our concept

IDEO offers a unique transport management as a collaborative and « Assets Free » European 4PL.

 

Collaborative. The world would be a better place if it was one unique Supply Chain. As a multi-client control tower, IDEO shares resources, experiences and back-hauling synergies.
The More We Are And The More We Get.

 

Assets Free. Without owning vehicles to make benefit with, our hauliers selection and allocation is totally independent. Our decisions are only done in alignment with our customers’ benefits.

We provide to our customers a management of their operations from creation of an order to its fulfillment. We act on 3 levels :

 

                                     1) Management and Coordination of road and rail transport

                                     2) Costs and service optimization

                                     3) Innovation and process engineering

Our history

European actor based in Saint Priest, close to Lyon in France, the control tower IDEO has been created in 2014 and is specialized in road and rail transport management in Europe.

 

Four years later, IDEO regroups more than 100 experts in Supply Chain and Transport. We serve customers such as Danone, Auchan, Orangina Suntory Factory, Bericap, BMI and PepsiCo. Operational excellence and added value created by our advance Supply Chain management have built our reputation. As a result, IDEO was awarded “King Of Supply Chain 2017” by Supply Chain Magazine.

IDEO awarded "King of Supply Chain" 2017

This reward is given by Supply Chain Magazine for the setting up of a dedicated Rail Hub. The project consists to evacuate Evian’s production as soon as the products are finished by a Rail shuttles connection between the factory and the Rail Hub.

Discover more projects made by IDEO on our blog !

What they say about us...

« We have seen the inversion of our customers curve. Congratulations ! Thank you for our customers. »
A.G – Directeur Supply Chain – Orangina Suntory France

 

« Thank you to IDEO’s team for their great work ! »
P.F – European Logistics Director – Danone Waters