French third-party logistics provider Logtex has rolled out a web-based control-tower portal for its customers, developed with Spacefill. Branded Monitor Logtex, the tool centralizes and digitizes how the fashion and e-commerce specialist interacts with the brands it handles.
The portal gives clients a single view of their outsourced operations: real-time tracking of flows from inbound to delivery, and a unified thread for communicating with Logtex teams. It is part of a development plan called Maya, aimed at lifting the value Logtex delivers to customers and to itself.
Rollout across the network
For now the portal connects to two warehouse management systems Logtex already runs, from KLS and from BK Systemes (Speed WMS). One major client is using it at the Cholet site, and the offer will extend gradually to all customers across the provider’s five shared platforms at Saint-Chamond, Wancourt, Cholet and Troyes.
Ownership in flux
Logtex was founded two decades ago within textile group Zannier, became independent in 2010, then joined the transport and logistics arm of the Deret group in 2018. That arm has been up for sale for several months, whole or in parts, after governance was destabilized by the indictment last year of three of the group’s executives and shareholders for misuse of company assets.
Visibility tools tend to make a 3PL stickier with its clients. Whether that strengthens Logtex’s hand as a sale plays out is the open question.
