CEVA wins AKI contract extension and starts e-commerce service
CEVA Logistics has won a three year extension and expansion of its contract with Spanish home decoration and do-it-yourself (DIY) company, AKI. CEVA has worked continuously with AKI since 2010 and has a dedicated team of almost 100 employees who operate a 30,000 square metre centralized, multi user hub for the company at Ontigola. From this hub, said CEVA, the logistic company “receives, picks, handles, prepares orders and distributes a wide range of stock from the smallest light bulb through to a full range of garden furniture”.
CEVA has begun implementing an e-commerce service for AKI, in addition to the 35 stores it already supplies around Spain, and it has also opened an additional facility at Ocana, where it will dedicate 5,000 square metres “to cater for further growth in the AKI service offering, such as the opening of several urban stores, a new concept by AKI, in the coming years”.
“The great advantage of managing both distribution channels is that we can cross-reference information and therefore implement highly accurate stock control for both the retail and online sides of AKI’s business,” said CEVA’s Managing Director of Iberia, Marco Galbusera. “This will also be a valuable tool as we grow our relationship in the future when AKI looks to open some 13 additional stores between now and 2019.”
In related news, CEVA announced today (11 June) that it has launched a new guaranteed weekly LCL (Less-than-Container Load) service from Antwerp to New York.
