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Table 4 Presstalis' key
information at the beginning
of the project
Key information
2008 Turnover 2,560 M €
2007 Turnover 2,677 M €
3,000 employees in 2008
2.5 million customers per day
Presstalis distributed product sales (end 2008)
Global sales: 1,235 million units (2,560 million euros)
Unsold rate/(49.9 % value)
Sales in overseas France = 1.1 % of the global sales
Export sales (100 countries) = 8.9 % of the global sales
4.2 Presentation of the LUMD Project
The LUMD project (Logistique Urbaine Mutualisée Durable, or Sustainable Urban
Logistics Sharing) is a collaborative project financed by the Unique Investment
Fund of the French Government. This project started in November 2008 and
finished in October 2011. Moreover, a post-project evaluation was performed
between December 2011 and March 2012). The objective of the project was
twofold:
• To propose a collaborative solution as an alternative to the City Distribution
Centre, with a unique operator, by providing an Information System-based
virtual platform for warehouse and transportation sharing.
• To standardize urban logistics concepts in order to transfer the LUMD solution
(virtual platform) to different cities in Europe.
The project instigated by Presstalis involved several partners, including one
logistics consulting agency, two software development companies, one geo-
graphical information service company, four research units of different natures and
three other logistics providers. The main phases of the project were related to the
development of a technological solution. In this work, we will explore the orga-
nizational aspects related to the implementation and deployment of this solution.
4.3 Organizational Analysis
We will present the most significant results of the qualitative analysis performed
on the basis of a regular follow-up of the project, since the authors of this paper
participated directly in different phases of the project, mainly in the initial phases
and the evaluation of logistics sharing (that took place last year). Moreover, eight
interviews and two site visits, as well as regular exchanges with the different
stakeholders of the project were carried out to keep the follow-up process well
updated.
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