Business partners of Brisa, a company owned by Sabancı Holding, presented their efforts to improve processes at the 22nd Brisa Conference on Improvement, where a team from Arkas described how they cut Brisa’s logistics expenditures in half.

This year the Brisa Conference on Improvement, organized by tire manufacturer Brisa, continued its annual symposium in which companies from different sectors described their search for perfection by presenting reports on projects they had implemented. Held at the Sabancı Center in Istanbul on April 25th, the conference created a forum where Brisa, Arkas Holding, Erenköy Primary School, Rexam Packaging, Teknosa and Tofaş were able to make presentations to approximately 700 participants describing improvement projects they had implemented as part of their total quality management.

An 800 hour reduction in shipping
A team of Arkas employees consisting of Hayati Demirer (Marketing Manager of MSC Bursa), Alkan Alicik (Export Sales Supervisor at MSC Bursa), Sevim Çakmak (Import Sales Supervisor at MSC Bursa) and Gözde Zorlu (Export Customer Representative at MSC Bursa) made a presentation about improving import-export processes in shipments via sea. In the presentation, the team described how, as Brisa’s solutions partner for sea shipments, they first of all carefully inspected and improved import and export shipping procedures, thus saving a significant amount of time and money. They emphasized that a significant increase was achieved in outgoing shipments by increasing the number of ports,packing and emptying containers at the Kentsa factory site where Brisa is located and reducing the time lost during customs procedures to a minimum.

They also described how alternative port solution achieved savings of 75,000 kilometers per year of overland shipments and how delivery times were shortened by 850 hours, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in Brisa’s annual logistics expenses. In the closing ceremony of the conference, to which Arkas was invited as Brisa’s “supplier of the year”, Arkas was presented with a plaque by Bülent Savaş, Brisa’s General Director. At the ceremony, Bülent Savaş said that he was amazed at the improvements Arkas had achieved for Brisa and that he expects that more innovations will follow.

Bülent Savaş, General Director of Brisa, presents a plaque to Hayati Demirer, Marketing Manager of MSC Bursa