CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Final Mile Logistics in regulated construction
The Challenge
The logistics operations in Hinkley Point’s final mile is under significant strain due to challenges in control, personnel, processes, data management, space, equipment, organisation and governance. Final Mile Logistics (FML) operates in a congested environment, requiring extensive coordination among various stakeholders and facing a tight planning horizon. Addressing congestion is critical in avoiding delays as new contractors joined. Efforts to date have focused on establishing a governance structure and logistics management capability to enhance visibility, performance, and efficiency, aligning with the project's broader objectives and timeline.
23
stakeholders engaged
£5M
per day construction cost
73
VCAP delivery points
7%
of UK power
The Squarcle Solution
- Process: Inefficient forecasting of material planning for optimal deliver onto site and asset utilisation on site.
- Governance: Absence of central governance and support for new contractors needing on site logistics.
- Data: Insufficient to zero data gathered or on paper with zero ability to deploy digital tools for planning.
- People: Vehicle Access points controlled by numerous entities, no centralised governance or prioritisation.
- Process: Congested access, internal building logistics and crane hook for vertical lift affecting efficiency.
- Governance: Uncontrolled and non-co-ordinated booking of critical routes through systems, poor adherence behaviour drastically reducing route utilisation impacting ability to get permanent materials to install area.
The Results
- Process: On site logistics planning team with authority across all logistics activity for coherent efficiency.
- Governance: Implementation of a Control Tower with authority on site and into the inbound supply chain.
- Data: Comprehensive data mapping and architecture for greatly improved visibility and reporting.
- People: Workforce strategy to enable centralised control of logistics access and assets such as VCAPs.
- Space: Common Logistics Space which is contractor neutral, optimised for planned construction schedule.
- Governance: Through the Control Tower framework, a set of robust control measures to ensure the optimal use of limited and constrained assets for the overall benefit of the construction project and into which new contractors can be brought on to a pre-existing defined framework.
