SupplyChain Magazine March 2019 | Page 173

USA accounts in order to streamline and manage those costs .”
Hyster sale teams are also equipped to support smaller customers that are not ready to invest in large-scale fleet enhancement . They may not realize that they can adopt the latest and most appropriate electric , lithium-ion , hydrogen fuel cell or gas-powered units without heavy capital investment . “ We have designed pay-per-use models that make it economically feasible for a ten-truck customer to take advantage of a hydrogen fuel cell solution that would yield 20 % to 30 % power gain and 10 % to 15 % productivity gains just from not having to refuel so much and the resultant downtime .”
Gijo George spends a lot of his time traveling the North American market to learn at first hand what his customers in different industries really want . Its stakeholders , he has found , share the Hyster vision of an ecologically and economically sustainable end-to-end supply chain . “ We deploy a number of strategies to collect customer feedback and identify their pain points . At the same time , as an organization with manufacturing facilities globally ,

“ We have some of the most comfortable platforms in the industry , designed to help minimize fatigue and absorb shock and vibration in a multitude of operating environments ”

— Gijo George , Business Unit Director for Food and Beverage , Hyster
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