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Growing Success with Vocollect Voice

Challenge: The nation's largest privately-owned wholesaler-distributor of natural and organic products needed to standardize processes to manage growth.

Keeping Distribution Operations Flexible and Competitive with Vocollect Voice

Challenge: A leading distributor of national brand-name medical/surgical supplies to healthcare organizations has discovered that operating in an extremely competitive arena and staying price-competitive without sacrificing service will always been a critical business goal.

Driving a 30 Percent Inventory Reduction and Improved Collaboration

Challenge: A leading US wireless communications provider experienced tremendous growth, especially with the transition into smartphones and tablets, creating imbalances within its supply chain driving inventory build-up across 3,000 retail locations and 3 distribution centers. The company identified opportunities to link retail store replenishment with the procurement plan to reduce safety stock, accelerate inventory turns and boost in-stock performance. Through its use of Logility Voyager Solutions, the wireless provider is able to leverage a comprehensive supply chain plan increasing visibility and collaboration across departments.

Tracking Cot Movement in the Emergency Department with RFID

Challenge: At our client's largest facility, the emergency department occasionally suffers from overcrowding. To reduce wait times, the hospital needs to know how long each EMS agency spends in the ED.

RFID Tagging to Improve Inventory Management, Billing Accuracy, and Cut Costs

Challenge: Our client, one of the premier heart care hospitals in the country, needed an inventory tracking and management system to better track supplies, monitor expiration dates of critical inventory, improve the proper billing of lab supplies and consumables, and reduce total on-hand inventory.

Smart RFID Labeling System for Global Health & Hygiene Company

Challenge: Our client, a leading global health and hygiene company, needed RFID printer/encoder equipment that would 1) create minimal downtime, 2) support the company's high volumes of RFID labels, and 3) handle an industrial hot, humid, and dusty environment.

Trinity Saves the Day For a Leading Pizza Supply Manufacturer

Challenge: A hurricane lashed the east coast, flooding our client's premix dough product DC. The storm damaged their supplies, and the client came to Trinity for a quick solution to accommodate their deliveries for a rush replacement to supply one of the nation's leading restaurant chains.

Flatbed Collaboration Drives Innovation and Value

Challenge: This customer had decentralized its transportation sourcing, with each facility operating independently. Three of its largest business units relied on the highly fragmented flatbed marketplace to service customers. It was extremely difficult to maintain reliable capacity and predictable transportation costs, let alone identify logistics efficiencies and implement best practices.

Showpiece Distribution Center for Internet Retailing

Challenge: A leading internet electronics retailer's needed to expand its order fulfillment and inventory storage capability to meet continued sales growth. Initial plans were to build a duplicate building on site to double capacity for both.

Centralized Transportation Command and Control for Operational and Financial Benefits

Challenge: The Company's growth was due to acquisitions that were allowed to continue to manage operations independently. No centralized logistics group existed. The company's 17 manufacturing sites managed their own logistics and operated independently.

Physical Infrastructure Solutions Company Experiences Seamless Entry into Canadian Market

Challenge: An industry-leading provider of physical infrastructure solutions expanded operations to Canada. Integral to the company's success, is its developed network of "partners," that work together to align critical systems - power, communication, computing, security, and control - within a unified solution. The challenge was to replicate infrastructure for Canadian customers by ensuring a high fill rate efficiency and distribution capacity throughout Canada.

WMS Helps Client Achieve 20% Labor Reduction And Increased Efficiency

Challenge: A client was facing increasing labor costs, inventory inaccuracies, shipping errors and increased leads times. The client turned to Systems Logic to implement our warehouse management software to enhance and improve their existing business processes and assist them in meeting their challenging company goals.

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