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Manufacturer Automates Logistics Operations to Find 20% Freight Savings

Challenge: This client, a premier manufacturer of nutritional supplements for athletes and active-lifestyle individuals, experienced rapid growth that necessitated an automated logistical operation. Manually managing an entire supply chain operation led to numerous inefficiencies and unnecessary costs.

TMS Helps Large Food Manufacturer Realize Major Operational Benefits

Challenge: This manufacturing client of various food products including cereal, experienced rapid growth in its store-brand foods. A series of acquisitions of independent manufacturing operations meant inefficiencies in supply chain management, particularly in product delivery.

Manufacturers Need a More Data-Driven Approach to Direct Materials Sourcing

Few decisions have as much power to make or break a product's success and profitability as those around the sourcing of direct materials. The components, parts and assemblies that go into making products not only account for 70 percent of an average manufacturer's annual spend, they have a significant impact on such critical competitive factors as brand reputation, time to market and supply chain reliability.

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E-care: Delivering Customer Service Digitally Without Reducing Profits

A European telecommunications company wanted to lower the cost of its customer service operations but worried about the potential loss of revenue from the cross-selling that its traditional call centers did so well. So-called e-care solved the problem.

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Small, Medium-sized Merchants to See 9-Percent Jump in Online Holiday Season Sales, Report Says

As retailers look ahead to the holiday selling season, e-commerce platform provider Volusion predicts that online sales during the holiday season will grow 9 percent compared to last year for small- to medium-sized businesses.

Logistics Expertise Assists Entry into U.S. Market

Challenge: Recently a well-established European manufacturer of housewares decided to enter the U.S. market. Knowing how important logistics would be to the startup process, their first decision was to select an ideal logistics partner to help develop an entry plan for the American marketplace.

Epicor Creates New Version of Retail Management Software

Epicor Software Corp. has created the Epicor Eagle N Series of retail-management software.

Do More Business with Data-driven Supply Chain Management

Challenge: A large manufacturer of flashlights was in need of a robust business integration solution to manage its global supply chain. Their resource-constrained IT department was looking for an automated solution that could help reduce VAN costs and be rapidly deployed with minimal staff involvement.

FORTE Helps Restaurant and Convenience-Store Chain Handle Growth

Challenge: The growth experienced by one of the largest restaurant and convenience-store chains in the United States from new, remodeled and same-store sales growth had pushed the limits of this company's current warehouse operations and transportation network.

Containership Refrigerated-cargo Capacity Expected to Increase 22 Percent by 2019

Reefer capacity on the containership fleet is expected to increase by 22 percent over the next five years, at the expense of a declining specialized reefer fleet, according to Drewry's latest Reefer Shipping Market Annual Review & Forecast.

HighJump Enhances Retail Management Software

HighJump Software Inc. has added capabilities to RETAILvantage, its inventory and point-of-sale management software for home goods retailers.

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Africa Business: From 'Hopeless' to Land of 'Growth Miracle'

When Kevin Smith and his partners started a solar energy firm in Santa Monica in 2008, they expected to sell their technology to advanced economies in Europe and the United States. But much of the action has been in a part of the world Smith initially wrote off: Africa.

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