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A New Warehouse Management System
Aiming to specialize in the outdoor sports industry, ITS Logistics finds it essential to swap out its WMS, while simultaneously retooling key processes at two Nevada distribution centers.
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You Can't Be Successful in China Without an Online Presence
In the past two years, Chinese consumers have opened their wallets and pocketbooks online. Online buying and selling, including group purchasing (through the Chinese equivalents of Groupon), is the second-fastest-growing activity, after microblogging.
McDonald's Says It's Committed to Serving Up Sustainability at Its Stores
Fast food chain McDonald's has employed techniques including $500 staff incentives, 30-percent wind power requirements and lightweight tractor-trailers to help green up its operations, according to a report by the company.
Major Food Company Gains Increased Lab Efficiency with CentralizedData:
Challenge: Celsis Rapid Detection provides systems that enable companies to more rapidly test and release safe products to market. One leading food products company uses three Celsis instruments in its microbiology lab to test daily production runs.
Does IBM Sale of POS Unit Spell the End of Point-of-Sale Hardware Business?
When IBM announced it was selling its entire POS business to Toshiba TEC for $850m, it was arguably the most explicit sign yet that the retail POS hardware business is on its last legs. Not IBM's POS business, but retail POS activity in general.
Is There a Manufacturing Renaissance in the U.S.?
Prospects are very bright for manufacturing in the U.S., says Raj Batra, president of the industry automation division at Siemens. Batra, who believes that the U.S. now offers a high-end, innovation-oriented manufacturing environment, cites 30 months of consecutive increases in the PMI index and growth in plant capacity utilization as signs that a renaissance is under way.
Sourcing, Customs, Trade Finance Tools Help Growing Sportswear Brand Become a Player
Challenge: A fast growing sportswear brand was seeking supply network efficiency and visibility.
National Grocery Chain Commits to Have 300 Stores Divert Waste from Landfills
Grocery store chain Supervalu Inc. is committing to have 300 stores divert 90 percent or more of their waste from local landfills by the end of the current fiscal year, Feb. 23, 2013).
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 ® seeking assistance in monitoring at-risk shipments in transit. Transport Security, Inc. implemented their ENFORCER ® Embedded Tracking Technology. The ENFORCER ® 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.
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