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News Release from: SFS intec
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2006
Record on-time deliveries from SFS Intec
Leading fastener and door hinge manufacturer SFS intec has achieved its best ever performance on customer deliveries during 2005.
Leading fastener and door hinge manufacturer SFS intec has achieved its best ever performance on customer deliveries during 2005, with latest figures beating 2004's already near perfect record Operating from its UK headquarters in Leeds, during 2005 SFS intec delivered its 29,900 lines of fasteners, hinges and consumables to window and door fabricators on-time on a remarkable 99.6 per cent of occasions
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In several months, for example during May 2005, SFS intec maintained a 100 per cent perfect record of delivering its products to customers when it said it would.
Head of SFS intec's customer service team Mick Maddison says, "Our delivery performance is just getting better and we are extremely pleased with these latest figures.
Our continuous investment in ordering and logistics technology keeps us at the forefront of the industry and we are doing all we can to ensure the remaining 0.4 per cent of cases where we have not met target delivery times can be reduced even further.
"Last year the Construction Products Association - in its report Improving Construction Logistics - concluded that and#65533;3 billion is wasted by the construction industry every year as a result of poor logistics.
Although this speaks for the sector as a whole, SFS intec is showing that poor logistics and delivery let-downs needn't continue to plague the industry, with the vast majority of our window and door industry customers getting the essentials that ensure they can maintain efficient fabrication exactly when the need them".
Swiss company SFS intec is Europe's leading manufacturer of fasteners for windows and doors, plus superior door hinges.
The company's delivery capabilities will accommodate all types of customer, from a total supply chain management solution where SFS intec takes full responsibility for consumables stock control, to a bespoke service which fits with existing purchasing systems and a walk-on van service in certain parts of the country.
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