A major player in the development of E. Leclerc’s market share, La Scalandes is implementing its master plan in the South-West of France. Leclerc, the La Scalandes purchasing center in the South-West of France is implementing its master plan to adapt its logistics infrastructures to its growth. APRC supported the company in this process, delivering two logistics buildings in early 2024.
Although the operation was launched on the eve of the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the teams led by Claude Bouillard, Managing Director of La Scalandes, and Karim Abdellaoui, Chairman of APRC Group, demonstrated their adaptability and constructive intelligence to ensure that the initial CPI was a success for all parties.
A few years ago, Scalandes drew up a master plan with two major objectives:
to increase the market share of the E. Leclerc’s market share, and more specifically that of its centers in the South-West region, and to reinternalize activities, notably logistics, which had previously been outsourced to specialized service providers.
“For us, this meant rethinking the dynamics of our three organizational pillars on which our growth is based: people, buildings and IT,” explains Claude Bouillard, General Manager of La Scalandes. “It is in this context that, after equipping the Mont-de-Marsan site with a building dedicated to frozen products in 2021, we entrusted APRC with the construction of this new platform, which comprises two buildings:
- un entrepôt logistique et frigorifique d’environ 10 100 m² à température contrôlée (+ 2°C) équipé d’un process de type trieur, avec près de 1 100 m² de locaux sociaux et de bureaux, 300 m² de locaux techniques, 450 m² de locaux de charge, une zone d’extension possible de 6 000 m² ;
- a 3,000 m² “ReverseLog” dry logistics warehouse, including offices and technical rooms, for pallet storage, with an outdoor area of 1,660 m².
This ReverseLog building, positioned at the heart of a site that now comprises 6 buildings, is all the more strategic as it contributes to E. Leclerc’s ambition to optimize its carbon neutrality. Leclerc. “For us, the challenge is to ensure that our vehicles never return empty, by collecting all shopping center waste: pallets, packaging, plastics, cardboard and all other recyclable products,” explains Claude Bouillard. “In the same virtuous perspective, these new infrastructures are 100% covered with photovoltaic panels for shared self-consumption with the existing buildings.
“The call for tenders for these two new buildings was won by APRC, who proved to be the most convincing, even though it was one of their competitors who had built the building dedicated to frozen products,” emphasizes Claude Bouillard. “This type of project, especially when faced with a context as particular as that generated by the war in Ukraine and its consequences on the cost of materials, is above all a story about people. Karim Abdellaoui’s commercial acumen in the pre-sales phase and his adaptability during the construction phase, when he worked with us to find solutions that would enable us to keep within the budget defined in the CPI, demonstrate all his qualities as a conductor. The success of our joint approach to optimizing the site, striking a balance between reducing costs and cutting back on services, by doing things differently and differently than planned to stay within the initial budget, depends on him.
About La Scalandes E. Leclerc
La Scalandes E. Leclerc is one of the 16 purchasing groups of GALEC – Groupement d’Achats E. Leclerc.
In a few figures, SCALANDES E. Leclerc is :
- 100,000 m² of warehouse space
- 50 million plots prepared per year
- 800,000 pallets transported per year
- 67 stores supplied
- 67 stores supplied
- 480 employees on average, projected to reach 550 by 2025
- 930 million in sales by 2023.
