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Customized VMI Template + SaaS Architecture = Client Success!

Challenge: Before our client moved to Datalliance, they recognized that their older VMI system was becoming a limitation as more of their customers became interested in VMI. That system required considerable time commitments from IT, sales, and customer service to bring new customers on board. The client realized that they couldn't expand the program at the required pace. The ability to implement VMI quickly and effectively with a broader range of customers was critical to their success, but we needed to find a better approach.

Integrated Business Software Solution Saves Labor Hours, Reaps Significant ROI

Challenge: During their start-up years our client lacked an integrated business software solution to accurately track job hours and material costs. As a result, our client was grossly undercharging for their services, resulting in year-over-year profit loss.

One Excellent Wireless Replenishment Solution, A Lot of Moving Parts

Challenge: Our client manufactures six different varieties of transmissions totaling more than one million units per year for several global automotive brands. Serving their broadly dispersed and diverse customer base requires the constant movement of many different parts to the assembly area, which must be well orchestrated to avoid delays associated with excess movement, or the cost associated with storing excess work-in-process inventory.

Importer Makes Good on Non-Compliance Penalties with Product Visibility Support

Challenge: Our client approached CDM with a problem related to product visibility and compliance. Our client had just received a penalty notice from CBP regarding non-compliance of importer security filing. Our client had outsourced the importer security filing to a third party and because of the erroneous filings; our client was stuck with handling and mitigating the CBP penalties.

One Solution Optimizes Usability, Visibility, Reporting & Workflow for Freight Management

Challenge: In a highly competitive transportation market, with growing demands from all parties in the supply chain, transportation solutions become more individual and complex. Therefore, trustworthy and flexible logistics is more in focus now than ever before. Four Soft is empowering an international freight management company with the power to act according to their customers' individual needs.

Seamless Roll-Out: From Centralized Inventory Management to Globalized Aftermarket Supply Chain

Challenge: In the construction equipment industry, service parts availability is critical. Before working with Syncron, our client's dealer supply chain was fragmented with each dealer being responsible for their own inventory management. It was difficult for our client to get visibility or control of the supply chain to ensure high service levels for their end-customers, with inventory overstocking, obsolescence and emergency orders creating huge unnecessary costs.

ERP System Brings 95% Savings, 100% On-Time Delivery with Single-Source Solution

Challenge: Meticulous in manufacturing performance and nimble in the ability to optimize plant and supply chain operations are the requirements for our client to meet a diverse range of customer specifications and shipment protocols. With a bar coding software that used up to 12 different databases, and a manual import/export process between EDI and the multiple vendor solutions that made up their ERP application, their system did not support their goals for flexibility and efficiency.

Implementation of New TMS Simplifies Operations, Increases Customer Base

Challenge: There is always concern when there is a major change in technology used company-wide.What if you were told by your customer you had no choice but to change to a new technology because of their changing needs? Our client was in this type of a situation, and needed a new Transportation Management Solution and driver handheld technology.

Global Exporter Gains Supply Chain Success Via Improved Communication & Visibility

Challenge: A large U.S.-based manufacturer exports thousands of shipments each year around the globe. Practicing lean supply chain management, the company often manufactures products as orders are received. To meet its customers' needs, on-time deliveries are critical. The exporter's ocean transportation group strives to continuously improve on-time deliveries, communication about changes to cargo delivery dates, and fulfillment of service contract commitments.

Fortune 500 Company Consolidates Carrier Choices, Saves Big on Global Transportation

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 company that serves as the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems. With over 40,000 employees in 60 countries, the $10. 9 billion company ships their products worldwide to customers. All company locations had their own decision making ability to choose their own transportation provider. In 2009, there were over 400 freight forwarders used worldwide for ocean and air shipments.

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.

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