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Opposites Attract: Shippers Collaborate to Improve Capacity Utilization and Sustainability

Challenge: In 2011, our customer transported the equivalent of 11,000 truckloads between Mexico and the U.S. While outbound loads were near the U.S. legal weight limit, each trailer departed its Mexican origin with about 80% of the available cubic capacity unused. The situation wasted "capacity" and underutilized all transportation resources "” especially fuel.

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.

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.

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.

Export Shipping Solution Minimizes Risks, Accelerates Order Throughput by 80%

Challenge: International shipping was largely a manual process from order packing through shipping for our client. Export documents were created by keying order details into document templates. Also, the company was using compliance data from several manual sources, which made the risk of non-compliance high. Decisions regarding Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers were subject to staff interpretation. Shipments that required AES filing were manually keyed into the AESDirect.gov system. Shipment consolidations were also manual.

Supplier Selection Guide Available for Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

A new cloud enterprise resource planning software supplier guide from ARC Advisory Group includes both selection criteria and guided workflow steps for choosing the correct cloud ERP system and supplier.

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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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Is Your Business Ready for a Spike in Customer Returns?

What would you do if you knew your business was going to face a loss of as much as nine percent of bottom line sales? Hopefully, you would try to avoid calamity by putting steps in place to manage the situation with a customer-friendly returns management program.

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Coming Soon to America: Chinese-Branded Merchandise

Chinese brands are aiming for a hefty slice of the U.S. consumer market. And they're liable to succeed a lot more quickly than you might think.

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Old Dominion Freight Line Offers New Mobile App

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has developed a new mobile app, designed to allow customers to more easily follow their shipments and connect with the company.

Kewill Issues Mobile Apps for Logistics Software

Kewill Inc. has released mobile applications for its Kewill Logistics software.

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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