The beautiful ascent of Simco Consulting France

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“I was born with safety shoes on a platform”sums up Benoît Cudel, the director general of Simco Consulting from his offices of Fragnes-la-Voyère where the company has settled in the company, within the « K » (ex-kodak). After more than twenty years as a specialist employee in the logistics and in -supply chain council with various degrees of responsibility, he founded, in 2015, Such Solutions: his small business “Born in her garage”built on his expertise, is very quickly a first customer while his founder spends an MBA. The diploma in pocket, two alternatives are available to Benoît Cudel: “Either I continue because it works, or I get back to the labor market. And I didn’t ask myself the question anymore because we never stopped moving forward ”.

In 2017, he hired two part-time people, one of whom is still within the walls, won the AER the Panorama market of the Supply Chain in the all-new BFC region, and has a turnover of some € 150,000 with a dozen wallet customers. Two years later, he was approached by Simco Consulting, a Milanese group of logistics consulting, which seeks to extend in France and appreciates in particular from the Bourguignon its expertise in simulation of flows, making it possible to digitize the activity to test and improve performance parameters without disturbing operations, customers or collaborators.

“Simco already did it in Italy, we joined this”recalls Benoît Cudel. Before signing, he must consider becoming an employee again and after discussions in order to be “fittings on business values”, Such Solutions is bought and becomes a subsidiary of the majority shareholder under the name of Simco Consulting France; Benoît Cudel, Managing Director, retaining 30% of the shares. The passage under Italian flag with expertise in French regulations and suppliers is a tobacco since in 2025, the company breaks a turnover of 500,000 € in constant growth and a hundred customers in portfolio including some large accounts in the transport sectors (SNCF), energy, defense, luxury (L’Oréal, Dior …), agroalice or wine (widow Ambal). Notoriety, which is also based on the experience of Simco Consulting (2,400 projects, 600 customers since the 1980s), has also been strengthened by investments in marketing, including participation in professional fairs and the optimization of the website.

Operational dimension

Simco Consulting France, with its team of six people and a few external consultants, does not intervene at the strategic level, but is placed in an operational perspective, including several services: a 360 ° audit phase, to offer improvement axes by dissecting Function, Process, Management and Information Systems when a customer notes failures (quality, delays, penalties, stocks); Or to draw scenarios in order to respond to a specific request from the customer, for example, an optimization of surfaces. The company analyzes needs (historical, stock levels, flows, constraints, seasonality …) for its studies. Nestlé has just inaugurated, in the Paris region, an entirely automated warehouse based on flow modeling made by Chalonnaise.

But Simco Consulting France also works for a refinery in Martinique, the premises Daunat which makes Chalon leave the supplies of the motorway areas, or an Scottish glassmaker “Who has approached us to study automation opportunities for their production exit, until the quay, or even recharging. They commissioned us to make two audits, one next to Venice and the other next to Saint-Etienne. On this last file, the study is suitable, we are embarked alongside the service provider. Then they said to us, “We now leave you two years to do all of our European and Central America factories”. We’re going to be Béziers, then Mexico, Ecuador … “. The expertise of Simco Consulting France goes further, since the company supports tenders, supports the implementation including on -site tests, supports chemists for the regulatory compliance of Seveso sites, is involved in logistical reorganization (optimization of storage and distribution) for example for an institution like the European Directorate of Medication & Health Care (EDQM of the Council of Europe) or advises a medication giant … with an assertive ethics: expertise is carried out independently compared to suppliers.

Qualiopi certified, Simco Consulting France also supports employees within sites. “You often have people who arrive and who have been trained in two weeks, a little” with a tear “, underlines Benoît Cudel. We allow them to acquire an overall vision and a little decline in relation to the fundamentals of the profession ”.

A regional logistics pole

Essential link in the economy, logistics? And how! “It was well seen during the covidinsists Benoît Cudel. For example, not having stock -ups, in very competitive markets is fundamental. Our promise is this: allow our customers to have the organization that already meets their future needs. »» Clients across national borders, as we have seen, but Benoît Cudel highlights the company’s desire to make “From short circuit logistics council. It’s good to bring consultants and specialists from far away, but we are there! »» Simco Consulting France also organizes the logistics dinners which, three to four times a year, bring together suppliers, industrialists, logistics providers, to raise the mayonnaise of a logistics cluster in the first industrial zone between Paris and Lyon. “There are beautiful organizations in Lyon, Normandy, in Brittany, in the North, in the Alps … concludes Benoît Cudel. We really want to animate a real network of logistics and supply chain at the regional level. »»