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4SIGHT Implements Operations and Engineering Improvements to Support Client's Expansion

Challenge: In 2011, due to increasing customer demand and product line expansion driven by organic growth and acquisition, our client determined that it was necessary to move its distribution operations to a larger facility.

Inventory Control "Choke Points" Handled with Motorola RFID

Challenge: Like many modern manufacturers, our client faced constant pressure to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its resource handling to better control manufacturing costs. The client was looking for a way to streamline the tracking of parts from inventory to the factory floor.

RFID Solution Reduces Material Transactions and Inventory Possession Days by 33 Percent

Challenge: Our client, a manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of fiber optic solutions, needed a reliable, flexible, and scalable solution to eliminate manual processes and move more material through the warehouse, while meeting the strictest of budgets.

Steel Supplier Upgrades Warehouse Processes to Improve Accuracy and Efficiency

Challenge: Our client, one of the largest steel suppliers and distributors in the Midwest, needed improvements in order accuracy and productivity, as well as real-time inventory. In addition, our client needed to track and document mill test certificates for more accurate proof of pull and ship.

Major Food Distributor Implements New WMS Using Bar Code Labels

Challenge: A major U.S. food manufacturer and distributor wanted to implement a new warehouse management system using bar code labels to track the movement of products within its warehouses and to customers. A difficult challenge for a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 1,600 different products in inventory.

Inventory Control "Choke Points" Handled with Motorola RFID

Steel Supplier Upgrades Warehouse Processes to Improve Accuracy and Efficiency

RFID Solution Reduces Material Transactions and Inventory Possession Days by 33 Percent

J.J. Taylor Increases Field Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Sweet Pickings:-Manufacturer's Fulfillment and Distribution Operations Symbolize Efficiency and Accuracy

Challenge: The leader in the dark and premium chocolate industry needed to update its manual, paper-based order and fulfillment operation, and "right size" capacity and establish repeatable processes across its distribution center network.

Advanced System for Set Top Boxes Improves Testing Accuracy, Reduces Expenses for Cable Operators

Challenge: Improving the testing process of set top boxes (STB), eliminating subjectivity, reducing human error, and ensuring that customers don't receive bad units, was a challenge facing one tier-one cable provider.

Transition With Surgical Precision: 3PL's Solution Enables Smooth DC Start-ups

Challenge: A medical device company was not meeting inventory and process accuracy goals, and was switching its global systems to SAP.

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