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Beverage Manufacturer Brews Up Impressive Sourcing Improvements with CombineNet

Challenge: One of the world's largest brewing companies relies on a highly complex freight network to ship raw materials, packaging and finished product between suppliers, breweries, warehouses and customers. The complexity of the European network, with 2,500 lanes, led to a "decentralized" sourcing approach, with multiple sourcing events across Europe.

Kewill Flagship gives a mail-order gift company year-round efficiency

Challenge: The flow of parcel shipping at a premier mail-order gift company can vary greatly depending on the time of year challenging efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Home Lighting Manufacturer Streamlines Fulfillment Using Kewill Flagship

Challenge: A leading home lighting manufacturer had been experiencing significant growth and operational practices were becoming very labor intensive. In addition, they were in the process of redesigning the physical flow of work in the distribution center. The client also needed to ensure that any new solutions introduced into their existing technology footprint had to integrate with their Oracle PeopleSoft ERP system.

Product Assembly at Warehouse Cuts Costs by $500,000

Challenge: A leading cooler manufacturer invented the collapsible cooler in 1990. The company was eager to increase supply chain efficiency by assembling products on-demand. They began working with Weber Logistics in Southern California to create a lean, agile distribution operation.

Specialty Retailer Relies on Weber Logistics for Store Replenishment, eFulfillment

Challenge: A fast-growing specialty retailer of nutritional products, with over 500 stores nationwide and growing online sales, was expanding westward. Since it was no longer practical to replenish west region stores from the east coast, a west coast DC was established with Weber Logistics.

Pet Food Company Collaborates with KANE to Drive Distribution Efficiency

Challenge: A mid-sized pet food company had operated its own distribution center outside Boston, but decided to outsource DC operations to improve performance on inventory accuracy, code date tracking, food-grade compliant storage and other critical warehouse measures. 3PL Kane Is Able (KANE) was chosen to operate the DC in Scranton, PA.

Winery Partners with KANE to Shorten Cycle Times

Challenge: A major winery was distributing all its wine products from its California location. This resulted in 7-day to 21-day delivery cycles to its customers - 500 U.S. wine distributors. The company, and its independent logistics services subsidiary, wanted to shorten this cycle and chose Kane Is Able, Inc. to be its Northeast logistics partner.

Industrial Supplier Superstore Keeps Next-Day Promise with Distribution Center Redesign

Challenge: Our client made a bold promise to its customers. Order any of its 600,000 products from its vast super store of industrial supplies by 8:00 pm EST, and get next day delivery. But with more than 2 million square feet of warehouse space and the highest SKU count in the industry, keeping that promise was a challenge.

ScottTech Assists Military Manufacturer Avoid Costly Downtime Penalties

Challenge: ScottTech had a customer who needed to transport 18 horizontal carousels to another building. The customer uses ScottTech's PickPro WCS warehouse control software which interfaces with their SAP system. PickPro WCS manages the inventory and provides software controls to various automated storage and retrieval systems. ScottTech's customer was subject to a penalty for each day manufacturing was not operational beyond the 14 days.

Company Uses CombineNet as Prescription to Drive Supply Chain Savings

Challenge: A global pharmaceutical company ships its products globally by a combination of air and ocean freight. To improve supply chain operations and reduce costs, This company has undertaken a multi-year strategy to transition more product from air freight to ocean carriage. The company's supply chain team had been successful in the past at transferring some of its air freight transportation to ocean freight, but had yet to undertake a large scale transformation because of the large amount of data collection and analysis required to fully understand the impact. Solution: The company turned to CombineNet ASAP to support their sourcing strategy.

The Next Step in the Evolution of SaaS - Managed TMS

Challenge: Our client, a leading canned and bottled juice company wanted to move to a Managed TMS program. The company considered a number of other options before selecting a system. It decided that software-based solutions that could be implemented in-house were too costly, both in terms of the initial outlay and ongoing maintenance. A web-based solution proved inadequate because it was not integrated properly with outbound operations.

A Customized Solution for Simplifying Complexity

Challenge: As a global leader in enterprise communications systems, our client needed a way to manage and coordinate large, complex deliveries of equipment to their customers for installs without disrupting ongoing business operations.

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