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Distribution network re-org yields $2 million in savings in Year 1

Challenge: A food supplement manufacturer was expanding rapidly. They struggled to keep up with order fulfillment, and shipping costs were growing faster than revenue.

Manthan Systems Issues New Version of ARC Vendor Link

Manthan Systems, a provider of business-intelligence and analytics software to retailers, has released version 6.4 of ARC Vendor Link.

Customer-Centric Levers Can Release Value for Consumer Goods Industry, Report Finds

In the face of challenging economic headwinds, consumer goods manufacturers have focused on cutting costs and optimizing working capital. Those routes still offer opportunity, but recent analysis indicates that traditional assumptions regarding tradeoffs among costs, inventory and service don't always hold true, and leading companies are using new, customer-centric levers to unlock value. These actions could yield a potential value of nearly $50bn industrywide, according to research conducted by The Boston Consulting Group on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

Speedy Client OnBoarding Process Critical for 3PL Success

Challenge: 3PLs sometimes walk a fine line between being able to get a new client up and running quickly and overextending themselves in terms of systems and infrastructure before they actually sign a client. For a regional 3PL, their ability to create a new set up that would be up and running smoothly in less than ninety days was critical to successfully acquiring a new retail client. This retail client commonly receives a high volume of items without much advance notice and generally sells/ships those same items back out to customers within a very short time period.

Delivery Schedule Analysis - Optimization and Simulation

Challenge: A large food distributor conducted a study to quantify the financial impact to transportation of implementing tighter store delivery time windows. These more restrictive windows were beneficial to the store, as they provided more consistent delivery times. However, before committing to their stores, the customer needed to fully understand the transportation cost implications of operationalizing this change.

Static Route Analysis - Optimization and Simulation

Challenge: Static DC routes had not been reset in years - this presented an opportunity to save miles and shipments. All stores serviced by the DC are on a 2 day a week delivery pattern that would not change, although the specific delivery pattern assigned to a given store could change.

Retailer's New Distribution Center Improves Service While Reducing Cost

Challenge: A specialty retailer, with over 1,000 stores in the U.S., was on track to double their stores and triple their eCommerce business in the NE over the next 10 years. But they need to act quickly to support that tremendous growth. Distribution costs were increasing and they struggled to meet the service levels their customers required.

Canadian Brewer Forecasts Demand, Distributes and Maximizes Capacity with Smoothie

Challenge: A large and growing Canadian brewer was challenged with constrained brewing capacity and seasonal demand. They needed to improve their forecasting and production planning in order to make maximal use if their capacity and serve as much demand as possible. To make matters even more challenging, they needed to do this across several breweries and a national distribution network.

Forecasting True Global Capabilities

Challenge: A multi-channel, high end goods retailer was interested in expanding into the Middle East, Australia, Asia and Europe. They needed an international support network that allowed for the reliability, speed and cost effectiveness that would let them develop short- and long-term forecasts.

Food & Beverage Company Realizes Significant Savings with FTAs

Challenge: A leader in the food and beverage industry, this company operates stores throughout the world. Additionally, the company provides food services via grocery channels, restaurants, and hotels. The company was operating with manual processes in key functions including Free Trade Agreements. These processes were no longer adequate as they faced continued international growth.

Online Retailer Ramps Up Holiday Shipping, Gains 99.9% Order Accuracy

Challenge: Our client, a thriving online retailer, was growing 25% to 30% every year since 1999. Sales are busiest during autumn, when roughly 200,000 of its annual volume of 225,000 orders are handled in a four-month period. During this time, operations ramp up from 100 to 8,000 orders a day. The company had completely outgrown its systems and needed a solution that could be scaled to meet peaks in sales activity.

Demand Sensing, Planning Apps Expected To Be 8.7 Percent of Overall Supply Chain Management Spend by 2015

Demand sensing and planning applications, currently representing 8.5 percent of overall supply chain management spending, and are expected to climb to 8.7 percent by 2015 largely due to demand volatility.

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