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Home Improvement Manufacturer Decreases Supply Chain Costs While Centralizing Network

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of home improvement and building products was operating across dozens of brands, in multiple of retailers across the globe. Their logistics network was being operated at an independent level per brand, leaving multiple opportunities for overlap and inefficiency. However, with such a level of complexity, they knew streamlining their network would be a challenge.

CPG Brand Reduces Overall Logistics Costs by 11% with LLamasoft

Challenge: A major CPG brand needed to consolidate their supply chain to reduce redundancies, such as an overlapping network and shared demand to decrease overall costs, while still delivering products to customers in a timely manner.

Leading Shipper Leverages B2B Software to Improve Supply Chain Communication

Challenge: A large temperature-controlled carrier was looking for a way to send real-time status reports to all members of their supply chain. They were also growing rapidly and needed a solution that was able to on-board trading partners at a much faster rate.

Wholesale Supplier Turns to TMS to Improve Operational Decision Making

Challenge: This client, a wholesale supplier of entertainment hard goods, flourished in the order fulfillment space despite an atypical distribution model. Various systems, shipping modes, and customer types brought about operational and accounting issues and the need for a powerful enterprise TMS.

Manufacturer Automates Logistics Operations to Find 20% Freight Savings

Challenge: This client, a premier manufacturer of nutritional supplements for athletes and active-lifestyle individuals, experienced rapid growth that necessitated an automated logistical operation. Manually managing an entire supply chain operation led to numerous inefficiencies and unnecessary costs.

TMS Helps Large Food Manufacturer Realize Major Operational Benefits

Challenge: This manufacturing client of various food products including cereal, experienced rapid growth in its store-brand foods. A series of acquisitions of independent manufacturing operations meant inefficiencies in supply chain management, particularly in product delivery.

Resilinc Drives Quick Benefits for High Tech and Auto Company

Challenge: A well-known high-tech company got hit hard in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami a few years ago. The disaster not only negatively impacted the company’s financial results, it did extensive longer-term damage that was harder to repair.

Logistics Expertise Assists Entry into U.S. Market

Challenge: Recently a well-established European manufacturer of housewares decided to enter the U.S. market. Knowing how important logistics would be to the startup process, their first decision was to select an ideal logistics partner to help develop an entry plan for the American marketplace.

Do More Business with Data-driven Supply Chain Management

Challenge: A large manufacturer of flashlights was in need of a robust business integration solution to manage its global supply chain. Their resource-constrained IT department was looking for an automated solution that could help reduce VAN costs and be rapidly deployed with minimal staff involvement.

FORTE Helps Restaurant and Convenience-Store Chain Handle Growth

Challenge: The growth experienced by one of the largest restaurant and convenience-store chains in the United States from new, remodeled and same-store sales growth had pushed the limits of this company's current warehouse operations and transportation network.

Floating Warehouse & Inventory Visibility Improves Customer Service in China

Challenge: A major chemicals company manufactures product in Brazil and ships globally, with its largest market in China. It takes 27 days on ship to deliver to China. Customers in China didn't want to wait 27 days to receive goods. The company didn't want to set up a DC in Asia.

Large Liquor Distributor Relies on KANE for Timely Store Deliveries

Challenge: For one of the largest purchasers of wines and spirits in the U.S., orders that arrive in late afternoon must be routed, cases picked per store order, and loaded that day for deliveries beginning at 6:00 a.m. the next morning. Daily order volumes can fluctuate from 18,000 cases per day to 32,000 cases per day, making labor management and transportation capacity management a challenge.

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