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Service Provider Lends Critical Insight during Manufacturer's Dispute with End-User

Challenge: A billion dollar telecommunications equipment manufacturer encountered a dispute with their Fortune 500 customer. The equipment was passing Renova Technology's rigorous quality assurance tests but was subsequently failing internal quality testing at one particular client location and was being deemed unusable for consumer market installation.

Precise Tracking for Warranty Claims Among Broad Array of Failures

Challenge: A major electronics manufacturer was experiencing up to six different types of failures in one particular model. Repair requirements ranged from basic replacement of faulty mechanical parts to detailed re-soldering work of complex circuit boards. Faulty mechanical parts needed to be tracked by a variety of serial numbers in order to be reimbursed by the manufacturer's parts supplier.

Food Wholesaler Saves Company with Demand Forecasting & Replenishment Solution

Challenge: A European food wholesaler faced negative growth amidst ailing economic conditions in Europe. A major customer threatened to leave because orders were not being filled reliably. Inaccurate demand forecasting was at the center of the problem. Conventional solutions only proved to increase inventory levels, decrease cash flow, and did nothing to improve customer satisfaction. The entire business was in jeopardy.

Omni-Channel Retailer Increases Supply Chain Visibility, Accelerates Growth

Challenge: Swedish retailer/wholesaler was having trouble navigating the difficulties of their multichannel supply chain. Inventory stock levels were climbing, and customers were disappointed because too much product was out of stock. Lack of visibility in forecasting was at the root of the problem.

Global CPG Giant Innovates & Delivers

Challenge: The world's largest consumer packaged products company, with nearly $84 billion in sales was challenged to decrease supply chain logistics costs globally and meet a specific strategic initiative to reduce truck miles per volume 20% by 2020.

Brewing Up Supply Chain Success

Challenge: This rapidly growing domestic brewing company lacked a centralized planning process across all of its breweries further hampered by disjointed supply chain functions. The company was unable to accurately forecast across its 180 products for the 575 wholesalers across its global footprint.

Automated Export Solution Provides Results Without Changing Processes

Challenge: A large international apparel/footwear client needed to automate their export management and screening processes, without changing their business processes. The client had a very manual process and too much time was wasted deciphering export regulations and reporting requirements.

Optimizing SLA Adherence While Substantially Reducing Shipping Costs

Challenge: A leading network storage equipment provider with client service contracts with SLA within 4 or 8 hours, requiring expensive Same Business Day ("SBD") shipping methods.

Leading distributor taps Penske Logistics to analyze and optimize fleet

Challenge: Suspecting inefficiencies, a leading distributor wanted to model its fleet resource requirements consisting of trucks and drivers for approximately 50 distribution centers. They needed outside consulting expertise to perform the analysis.

International cosmetics brand streamlines Brazilian distribution with Penske Logistics

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of premium cosmetics and beauty products sought a new logistics model to meet its rapidly growing customer base in Brazil while reducing its carbon footprint.

Penske Logistics helps deliver freshness to growing convenience store chain

Challenge: A leading retail convenience store chain desired major improvements in replenishing its stores with fresh food items. The solution needed to facilitate daily collection, staging and delivery of fresh-baked goods and refrigerated foods by truck to every store across a wide geographic area.

Cross-plant platform breeds success for aluminum rolling & recycling company

Challenge: A world leader in aluminum rolling & beverage can recycling contracted our company as they were looking for a planning and scheduling platform that would enable it to run products from either of its two plants, while improving other important KPIs.

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