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Racing to Success with Vocollect Voice

Challenge: The manufacturer of the most recognized and best-selling brand of motocross apparel in the world today needed to accelerate distribution center performance to support company growth and expansion.

Growing Success with Vocollect Voice

Challenge: The nation's largest privately-owned wholesaler-distributor of natural and organic products needed to standardize processes to manage growth.

Court Seems to Say Retailers Can Track Shoppers' Movements In and Outside Stores

Retailers wrestling with how far they can legally go with tracking shoppers' movements within their stores and in neighborhoods near their stores have been given an unexpected green light from a federal appeals court.

Jeeves Information Systems Opens North American Headquarters in Chicago

Jeeves Information Systems AB, a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for small and medium-sized businesses, has established a new headquarters for its North American operations in Chicago.

Trinity Saves the Day For a Leading Pizza Supply Manufacturer

Challenge: A hurricane lashed the east coast, flooding our client's premix dough product DC. The storm damaged their supplies, and the client came to Trinity for a quick solution to accommodate their deliveries for a rush replacement to supply one of the nation's leading restaurant chains.

Showpiece Distribution Center for Internet Retailing

Challenge: A leading internet electronics retailer's needed to expand its order fulfillment and inventory storage capability to meet continued sales growth. Initial plans were to build a duplicate building on site to double capacity for both.

Wal-Mart to Test System Allowing Customers to Scan Products Before Purchase

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing out a new checkout system that enables shoppers to avoid long lines and scan items in store aisles using their smartphones.

Thrive Technologies Debuts Demand-Forecasting Tool

Thrive Technologies Inc. has released Firstcast, a demand-forecasting service.

Saks to Officially Open DC in Middle Tennessee

Retailer Saks Incorporated is set to celebrate the opening of its new distribution and fulfillment facility in LaVergne, Tenn., this month.

Centralized Transportation Command and Control for Operational and Financial Benefits

Challenge: The Company's growth was due to acquisitions that were allowed to continue to manage operations independently. No centralized logistics group existed. The company's 17 manufacturing sites managed their own logistics and operated independently.

WMS Helps Client Achieve 20% Labor Reduction And Increased Efficiency

Challenge: A client was facing increasing labor costs, inventory inaccuracies, shipping errors and increased leads times. The client turned to Systems Logic to implement our warehouse management software to enhance and improve their existing business processes and assist them in meeting their challenging company goals.

Global manufacturer tastes sweet success with cloud supply chain platform

Challenge: A global manufacturer of 49% food and 51% pet products manages over 3,500 inputs from growers, with 17 U.S. production facilities, 24 devoted to co-packing, 11 distribution centers and more than 550 ship-to locations. Internationally it operates 20 co-packing locations and imports the equivalent of more than 11,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs) from 48 destinations.

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