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Solving Replenishment Challenges Within 1.25 Million Square Feet

Challenge: Imagine a warehouse operation that handles more than 50,000 SKUs housed under 1.25 million square feet of space. Most of those SKUs can be ordered and picked as eaches and needed to be stored on forward picklines. The challenges faced when managing how those pick locations are replenished is enormous.

Collaborating on a Trial Run for a Retail Giant

Challenge: Port Jersey Logistics provided fulfillment services for a Korea-based skincare product manufacturer, who soon landed a trial-run with one of the country's largest retailers. The unknown brand ran the risk of going unnoticed by consumers, so the skincare company promised the retailer "Buy-One, Get-One-Free" dual packs. A hurdle: the products were manufactured and packaged in South Korea and it was impossible for newly-packaged 2-for-1's to reach the retailer in time for their test run.

Global Spirits Company Relies on Weber for Distribution of Imports

Challenge: One of the world's leading premium drinks companies sought an outsourced solution for distribution of container and rail imports from the West Coast. They chose Weber Logistics to coordinate drayage, transloading, and warehousing, with all distribution to FIFO standards.

Candy Maker Relies on Weber for Port Services, Warehousing and Delivery

Challenge: With locations in more than 90 countries, this Europe-based marketer of several famous candy brands sells more than one million cases per year in the western U.S. alone. To better serve its west region customers, the company chose Weber Logistics based on Weber's strong experience in confectionery product distribution.

Providing an alternative solution for 3PLs. Don't change your WMS.

Challenge: A large 3PL supports international shipping for a large electronic manufacturer. It is critical to provide accurate export information electronically to US Customs. The existing manual process resulted in frequently incomplete and incorrect information, creating shipment delays and fines.

Club Store Partners with KANE to Operate High-Velocity Cross-Dock

Challenge: A major U.S. club store chain runs a high-velocity network of cross dock facilities. Kane Is Able was chosen to operate the retailer's first, and largest, cross dock center serving the Northeast.

The Logistics of Saving Lives Through a Challenging Delivery

Challenge: A large U.S.-based drug retailer entrusted UPS to transport 375,000 donated doses of seasonal flu vaccine into Laos in less than a week. In order to remain compliant, the vaccine needed to maintain a strict temperature range of 2Â°C to 8Â°C across 5 countries and 9,000 miles.

Flexible Logistics Solution Enables a High-Growth Company's Transition to Household Brand

Challenge: A high-growth food and beverage company needed a reliable, flexible distribution partner capable of managing explosive demand.

2-4 Hour Parts Availability for Global Storage Systems Support

Challenge: Our client is a global storage systems and service provider that supports essential corporate processes for its Fortune 100 customer install base. With service level agreements that are typically 4 hours or less in over 200 countries, they needed a reliable critical service parts logistics provider with Choice Logistics' global breadth and expertise that would help meet their customer demands.

Global Service Parts Field Stocking for 24x7 Networking Uptime

Challenge: Companies around the world entrust our client to keep their vital communications networks operating around the clock. Since managing over 70,000 forward stocked service parts internally detracted from their core competencies, they made a strategic decision to partner with Choice Logistics to ensure the highest level of service.

Damco Enhanced Origins Cargo Planning Case Study

Challenge: The client had a lack of control at their origins; they needed better visibility of purchase orders and volumes. They looked to Damco for an integrated supply chain management solution.

Leading Semiconductor Company Improves Ability to Respond to Volatility

Challenge: Companies that manufacture components for mobile devices operate in one of the most competitive and volatile industries. Their customers want feedback on the impact of changes quickly, but it often took two weeks to provide answers"”and the information wasn't always accurate.

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