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Major Supermarket Chain Shops for Optimized Distribution, Finds Overall Savings

Challenge: A major supermarket chain used Logistix Solutions' Logix Distribution Network Design tool to identify significant savings from consolidation of inbound distribution to its network of stores in the United States.

TMS Implementation Transports Big Retailer to Significant Savings

Challenge: Used by many Fortune 1000 companies and leading 3PLs, LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS Â® delivers complete transportation planning, execution, settlement, and procurement, as well as supply chain visibility and business intelligence to improve business processes, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Industrial Gas/Specialty Chemical Company Streamlines Ocean Carrier Pipelines

Challenge: Booking ocean cargo for our global client's industrial gases and specialty chemicals was inefficient, requiring excessive time and manpower. The client needed to streamline the process to improve the flow of their products for timely delivery to their customers.

Routing Change Makes Huge Impact on Food & Beverage Company's Savings

Challenge: Our customer in the Food and Beverage industry had an inbound volume of 10 containers per week from one origin into the Atlanta area via US Southeast ports.

Floor Care Products Company Lifts Forecast Accuracy, Customer Service to New Heights

Challenge: With a shift from a manufacturing to sourcing model, a leading floor care products company needed to improve its inventory optimization through more robust and accurate forecasting while maintaining high customer service levels.

Power Management Company Takes Charge of Demand & Supply Changes

Challenge: A power management technology provider operates in a supply constrained environment where factories are fully loaded and tradeoff decisions are needed frequently, i.e.: If a production lot gets scrapped, what new promise date can be given to customers? If a customer demand gets pulled-in, what is the ripple effect to all other customer orders? If the priority of all orders from a customer is increased, what other orders become at risk?

Global Pasta Maker Cooks Up Optimal DC Location with Powerful Analytics Tool

Challenge: A large, global pasta maker needed to analyze their supply chain network to determine where to add another distribution center. The company ships a wide-variety of products from manufacturing locations to multiple distribution centers.

Railroad Company Saves Customers Millions in Supply Chain Costs

Challenge: As fuel costs, highway congestion and environmental consciousness skyrocket, building a supply chain network that factors in a variety of transportation modes to minimize costs and carbon footprint is critical.

World's Largest Marine Electronics Company Attains Unprecedented Forecasting Accuracy

Challenge: Our client, the world's largest marine electronics company, was forecasting nearly 8,000 SKUs with spreadsheets and manual calculations. Updates had to be communicated with our client's Syteline ERP system in order to complete purchase cycles and track on-hand quantities. The time to consolidate and analyze sales forecasts and inventory requirements could take weeks.

Integration of Client-Customer Systems Yields Finely-Tuned Replenishment Success

Challenge: A manufacturer of high precision machined components was unable to meet the stocking requirements of their largest customer. Though their customer had placed their supply management system online their constant changing of requirements made it difficult for the company to keep pace. Their first option was to create a series of complex spreadsheets to help manage the data. Unfortunately, that process required nearly two hours a day to prepare and despite their efforts stock-outs increased to nearly 50% of managed SKU's.

Customized Forecasting & Requirements Planning Optimizes Volatile Inventory Levels

Challenge: The demand forecasting process looked quite different one year ago compared to the streamlined process that our customer uses today. The company strives to maintain high customer service levels; however, reliance on only "green bar" reports for its inventory planning process caused them to be in constant over or under-stock situations. They needed a solution that could manage seasonality and long lead times ranging from 14 to 135 days, provide effective SKU management, improve fill rates and optimize inventory.

Home Electronics Company Adopts S&OP Process for Significant Supply Chain Improvement

Challenge: Faced with increasing lead times due to international sourcing and cost pressures, while squeezed on the sell side with increasing service pressures, a $200 million US-based home electronics company turned to Demand Works.

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