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Packing Lean: Contract Packaging Projects Hitting Continuous Improvement Targets

Challenge: A global healthcare company sought to improve packaging and display operations and increase utilization of equipment. The operation was housed in a 140,000 sq.-ft. facility, and suffered from frequent bottlenecks and minimal visibility to productivity reports.

Freight Forwarder Creates Agile Global Logistics Network

Challenge: This global freight forwarder needed to create a single, scalable platform for freight forwarding that was transparent, flexible and could be easily integrated with multiple third-party applications and partner networks.

High-Tech Manufacturer Increases Operational Efficiency And Improves Customer Service

Challenge: This successful high-tech manufacturer needed to deploy a shipping solution with the flexibility, integration, customization and carrier adoption capabilities essential to accelerate and maximize its shipping operations to better serve customers.

Auto Auction Company Upgrades Mobile Computers to Track Vehicles

Challenge: Our client is a leading independent, dealer exclusive auto auction offering over 2,000 vehicles a week. Their in-house inventory tracking software was running on outdated mobile devices, and its upgraded wireless network had strict requirements for compatibility, thus limiting the number of devices available.

National Beverage Distributor Uncovers New Operational Efficiencies with Mobility

Challenge: Our client was in need of a more intuitive, point-and-click route accounting solution. To complement the new route accounting system, our client needed to procure and manage new hardware throughout the products' lifecycles.

Fleet Tracking and Delivery Management Improves Armored Car Company

Challenge: Our client needed to move away from a paper-based solution, which was inefficient, expensive, and error-prone. Under the historical system, paperwork was involved with every step of the parcel dispatch and delivery process. Our client wanted to automate its dispatching operations and collect better data in the field, plus reduce the number of potential misdirects.

Landstar Quenches Beverage Company Need

Challenge: Leading Beverage Company Need: A major North American beverage company having difficulty finding trucks in today's marketplace asked Landstar for support in sourcing and managing additional capacity beyond the normal reach of its carrier partners.

Landstar Powers Up for Energy Equipment Company

Challenge: A major Energy Equipment OEM was looking for a logistics company that shared their vision of quality, excellence, and customer satisfaction. The OEM needed a North American Tier 1 logistics provider that could improve the logistics management of their domestic Nuclear Power Plant projects.

Landstar Puts Automotive Supply Chain on Fast Track

Challenge: A Tier 1 automotive supplier was looking to improve cost, visibility and productivity within their ground expedite network.

26 Independent Energy Facilities Consolidate Procurement Process With Vinimaya

Challenge: A large industrial & manufacturing organization that delivers goods and services to the U.S. Department of Energy was looking to unify a collection of de-centralized procurement processes & systems spread across 26 facilities, each using a different process, supplier community and back-end system - including Ariba, PeopleSoft/Oracle, and SAP. The organization needed to gracefully tie these systems together in order to streamline supplier data management, consolidate supplier rates for goods and services and maximize savings.

Food Manufacturer Scales Company Growth with Managed Transportation Services

Challenge: A food manufacturer's current transportation management structure was unable to scale and support their pace of growth. Their resources were also inadequate to support future growth, and they needed to gain better control of transportation expenses and delivery service.

Achieve Unprecedented Supply Chain Visibility | Enable Rapid International Growth/Expansion

Challenge: This multinational technology corporation was quickly expanding its trading partner connections with global manufacturers (ODMs) and retailers. However, the scope of the project outstripped internal skills and resources. The company needed to quickly integrate thousands of partners, more than 300 transaction types and update/consolidate three legacy B2B platforms.

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