Reducing costs through increased efficiency

Everyday, companies incur huge unneeded losses in time and labor costs through inefficient material handling.

For the last 50 years, Swedish company Atlet AB has been developing innovative solutions for internal material handling to reduce those hidden costs and boost the profitability of their clients.

A solution developed from these years of experience, Atlet Total provides a unique combination of products and services designed to optimize the complete material handling chain.

Atlet's total solution begins with a sophisticated logistics software program called Atlet Logistics Analyzer (ALA), which analyzes individual warehouse needs. The program works as an instrument for simulating material movement and allows users to follow real time flow in a three-dimensional environment.

At the heart of its logistics solution is Atlet's line of specialized indoor trucks. Constantly at the forefront of ergonomic and user-friendly technology, Atlet Trucks offer high precision, power, and safety.

Equipped with the Atlet Truck Computer (ATC) and the S3 safety system, these smart trucks adapt to the settings of each individual driver and take automatic safety precautions, such as reducing speed as they approach sharp bends.

In addition to those products, Atlet's total solution provides services such as truck rentals, service contracts, training, risk and safety consultancy and financing to ensure end-to-end efficiency and cost-reduction throughout the material handling chain. This holistic approach has set the company apart from the competition.

"Many of our competitors are only selling trucks, while we are looking into the total material flow for customers. We have not only specially designed trucks, we work with our customers' total set-up," said Market Director Karl-Johan Sandesjo.

With its cutting-edge total logistics solution, Atlet is well positioned to fill China's growing need for high performance indoor warehouse trucks amid the country's rapid industrialization.

"Often companies only look at the cost of buying a truck but we work with the total cost. It is important that you have high-quality equipment that is cost-efficient to maintain. For this reason, I think we have a lot of opportunity in China and we will certainly be entering the Chinese market," said Sandesjo.

www.atlet.com

(China Daily 03/02/2009 page7)