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On-Demand WMS Gives Retailer Optimized Visibility with Minimized Cost

Challenge: Our retail client has been operating their logistics network with 5 distribution centers (DC) across the country to support their stores: one main, centralized DC and 4 regional DCs (RDC). Due to the disparity of the warehouse management solutions (WMS) used by all the DCs, there was no real time visibility across the network to manage inventory and outbound orders. Because their operations were centralized at the main DC, they incurred unnecessary transportation and labor costs.

Trucking Company Improves Customer Service with Real-Time Intelligence

Challenge: One trucking company client implemented Cheetah Freight to intelligently inject technology into their dispatch management process to provide real-time shipment status information to their customers, provide improved decision making tools to P&D dispatchers, and improve the outbound load planning process.

Cost Savings for Freight Payment

Challenge: Prospective customer was having frustrations with their current provider in regards to performing quality audits, seeing visibility of data, better process to handle exception management and being responsive to their overall needs.

CPG Company's Domestic Demand Sensing Tool Leads to Global Implementation for Forecasting

Challenge: Uncertain markets and increased demand volatility have made demand planning difficult for consumer products companies. At the same time, prices of raw materials and fuel have increased making the cost of producing and shipping goods even higher. Our customer's objectives were to improve service levels, decrease costs and improve cash flow by increasing forecast accuracy.

A View to Accuracy: Tools Manufacturer Implements Invaluable Forecasting Solution

Challenge: Our customer manufactures and distributes private label hand tools and related products which are sold at Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, and Pep Boys, among others. In 2009, our customer decided to expand visibility to in-store inventories and improve forecasting and customer service.

Tier 1 Wholesaler Adopts DC Expert Planning Tool, Saves $2M

Challenge: Insight was engaged by a tier 1 wholesaler of convenience store products to help reduce costs and gain efficiencies in the operation.

US Wine & Spirits Distributor Heightens Visibility & Operations

Challenge: The second largest distributor of wine and spirits in the US, our client operates in a tightly regulated industry with outdated business processes and systems, and was challenged by a lack of visibility to inbound orders from its global vendors and suppliers. In addition, the company's manual order and shipment tracking processes frequently led to significant delays and difficulty in determining accurate inventory levels and expected arrival dates, leading to reactive expediting and additional intra-company transportation moves.

Online Retailer Makes Millions with New Automated WMS

Challenge: An online retailer was growing quickly. Its homegrown warehouse management system (WMS) was error prone and inefficient. The warehouse team was picking orders using just a piece of paper. In order to keep up with the growth and stay true to its commitment to customer service, the company invested in a WMS from HighJump Software. Management was looking for a highly adaptable, comprehensive and automated system that could be quickly implemented to boost efficiency and accuracy.

Military/Aerospace Company Gains Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Challenge: Our client, a large manufacturer of interconnect products, deployed InfinityQS software in its military/aerospace division. The application allows users to conduct extensive comparative quality data analysis throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain.

Optimized Network Configuration Creates Higher Efficiency, Lower Operating Costs

Challenge: Our client was facing consecutive increasing operational costs over the last two years; executive management needed a clear picture on how to turn this trend around.

Large Retailer Goes Non-Traditional - Finds Radical Success in the Cloud

Challenge: A large retail customer spent several years and millions of dollars trying to get end-to-end, item level visibility across their global supply chain. After two CIOs and expensive software write offs, they turned to GT Nexus because we offered a radical alternative to traditional software.

"Order-to-Cash" Application Brings Customers, Clients, Partners Together With Stellar Results

Challenge: When you receive an order to ship product, it's essential that the product is allocated against the customer's forecast and the "system" to trigger appropriate inventory replacement signals. The client identified our ability to develop an "order-to-cash" solution capable of integrating into their existing ERP system, and advised that they had lots of data; but not always readily available and slow to get.

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