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Universal uses multi-modes to provide hybrid solutions for its customers
Challenge: The client desired a multi-modal approach which would allow inventories to flow plant-to-plant faster than current rail mode while maintaining inventory and production levels. The challenge was a combination of truck capacity in a local marketplace as well as a "truck-rail-truck" approach due to significant levels of inventory moving to the Texas Marketplace.
Industrial Distributor Revamps Distribution Center for Growth
Challenge: The client is an industrial distributor experiencing tremendous growth. The company's distribution center capacity was taxed. Furthermore, operational costs were rising because the distribution center lacked the processes and systems to support rising demand, specifically: an inefficient picking methodology was elongating order fulfillment times; pickers were walking too far in between picks due to improper slotting; and aging equipment components were causing bottlenecks.
ADSI's Supply Chain Solution Helps Distributor Absorb Double-Digit Growth
Challenge: Our client, a distributor of hospitality supplies for hotels, colleges and hospitals via 11 distribution centers within North America, needed to upgrade its supply chain systems to better accommodate its double-digit growth rate.
Supply Chain, 'King' of Manufacturing, Has Highly Complex Job to Do
Most everyone in manufacturing is aware that today, supply chain is, more or less, "king" of the manufacturing lifecycle. With more globalized supply chains and the trend of working with more and more third parties, it's critical that manufacturers keep a strong hold on the flow of materials from one location to the next.
Coming Soon to America: Chinese-Branded Merchandise
Chinese brands are aiming for a hefty slice of the U.S. consumer market. And they're liable to succeed a lot more quickly than you might think.
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Epicor Unveils New Version of Vista for Automotive Aftermarket
Epicor Software Corp. has developed version 6 of Epicor Vista for the Automotive Aftermarket.
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Large Distributor Employs TMS to Centralize Transportation Procedures
Challenge: A wholesale distributor of construction materials and supplies was struggling to centralize their procedures around transportation. At the time, branches had individual methods for managing materials transportation. A universal tool was needed to have better analysis on the client's freights.
Automotive Parts Company Moves to Daily Store Fulfillment While Reducing Cost
Challenge: A leading automotive parts retailer, with more than 3,000 stores in the U.S., wanted to quickly develop their B2B channel while simultaneously growing their traditional retail channel. But their operations would have to adapt to meet the higher service level that B2B customers require.
Mercedes-Benz Adds Fuel Cell Investment to New $70m Logistics Center
Mercedes-Benz has been saying for some time now the fuel cell vehicles are coming, and while eyes are on that potential a few years hence, the company is actually investing heavily now in fuel cells for more ordinary purposes in its own logistics operations.
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Michigan Generates Most Manufacturing Jobs, Report Finds
Where are the most manufacturing jobs? A number of states have plenty. We all know Texas does. But not as much as Michigan does, according to a recent study.
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Reliance on Small Subset of Suppliers Increases Risk, Study Finds
Leading global supply chains have become dependent on the same small group of sub-tier suppliers - concentrating the risk and increasing the potential for crippling supply chain disruptions, according to Resilinc, which provides solutions for supply chain mapping, visibility and event monitoring.
Automotive Supplier Gets Into Gear With New Demand-Planning System
Sweden's Höganäs AB, a producer of metal powders, implements a system to improve its access to market intelligence, plan for demand and optimize inventories, while ensuring just-in-time delivery to the assembly line.
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