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Transportation Provider Uses Integrated Service Offering to Win Big Retailer Business

Challenge: When an opportunity presented itself with a very large retailer looking for a logistics partner and technology platform to manage their inbound business process, our client knew it was time to act.

Covert Transportation Tracking Technology Saves Manufacturer Over $10M in High-Value Goods

Challenge: A manufacturer of high value consumer products came to Transport Security, Inc- ENFORCER Â® seeking assistance in monitoring at-risk shipments in transit. Transport Security, Inc. implemented their ENFORCER Â® Embedded Tracking Technology. The ENFORCER Â® Tracking Technology allows the client to embed the technology within their shipment and covertly track their assets via a web -based application.

Fortune 500 CPG Company Enhances Supply Innovation Throughout E-Sourcing Process

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 CPG company with a shared-services Procurement and Sourcing team that supports the sourcing activities of dozens of global brands and business units representing a large percentage of the company's spend. As the team increased its spend under management, they found that their existing ERP and procurement tools were not adequate to meet their e-sourcing needs. They required a solution that could more effectively support strategic spend areas with robust features, yet speed and simplify their workload.

Supplier Collaboration Solution Fits Well for Retailer of Popular Brand Apparel

Challenge: Our customer, a specialty retailer selling casual apparel for three highly-visible brands, was lacking a system for supplier collaboration. Sourcing thousands of products from around the world, it needed a system for production tracking and visibility into every phase of the product lifecycle - pre-production tracking, costing, order management, logistics tracking, and material liability.

Leading Chemical Manufacturer Finds Good Chemistry with Transportation Partners

Challenge: A leading chemical manufacturer uses the Elemica Logistics Sourcing services with Transportation Bid Optimization to help them prepare for predicted capacity constraints and to streamline, automate and run dynamic sourcing events for logistics transportation. The rapidly changing transportation services market requires companies to run more frequent transportation bidding events that encompass all transportation modes.

Soft Drinks Leader Sips Up Savings - New Warehouse Management Control Software

Challenge: A worldwide leader in the soft drink industry recently installed a Westfalia Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Savanna.NET Â® Warehouse Management Control Software (WMC) at their plant in Tampa, FL. Chief among the objectives of this facility expansion, besides maximizing storage space with the high density AS/RS, is to build store ready pallets.

Retailer Plans Route to Success with Real-Time Visibility for Delivery Operations

Challenge: In today's market with increased customer service demands on top of escalating operating costs, it's imperative to develop streamlined processes to drive operational efficiency in supply chain operations. A major retailer with home delivery service learned just how much impact the proper technology solution can have when they chose Descartes as a partner. They were challenged with a manual delivery planning process that had proven inefficient and lack of visibility into activities on the road was detrimental to their customer service.

Retailer Brings Its Vendors Up-to-Speed with Compliance Best Practices

Challenge: DiCentral aided a major North American retailer in the development of new EDI specifications that followed industry best practices and VICS standards, and then helped the retailer implement these specifications with their respective vendor communities.

Major Foodservice Distributor Commands Voice Picking Operations Via Central Server

Challenge: Voxware helped a major foodservice distributor with 18 DCs manage their voice picking operations from one centralized server. This allows the workers to get products out the door without being burdened with IT-related tasks.

US Sporting Goods Company Ensures Procurement Process "Plays Fair"

Challenge: A US Sporting Goods Retailer improved its supply chain by utilizing software to automate the procurement process, from determining risks associated with each vendor before a PO was created to the time the shipment arrived at the US port.

Retailer Picks an ROI Winner With New Voice Based Picking Solution

Challenge: Our client, a retail chain with over 70 stores, needed to improve the accuracy of its paper-based order picking operations and improve their picking error rate at their distribution center. Their research of technologies led them to Voice based picking solutions. From there they evaluated three vendors' voice based picking solutions via three week pilot programs with each solution and compiled the productivity and accuracy statistics.

World-Renowned Beverage Company Drinks Up New Approach to Sourcing

Challenge: As our client, a world-renowned beverage company, took on more suppliers and their specific packaging requests, it became imperative that the company optimize its sourcing patterns. Our client realized it needed technology that would enable it to manage dramatic sales volumes, maintain customer services levels, as well as provide better visibility into demand.

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