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Technology Manufacturer Increases Customer Service While Delivering Profitability

Challenge: This leading commercial electronics manufacturer needed to contain costs and increase performance while remaining focused on its core business of printing and imaging technology. This was a challenged due to the changing transportation environment.

Pool Distribution Slashes Distribution Costs for Candy Manufacturer

Challenge: A major marketer of candy and entertainment products has a national customer base but lacked the volume to ship customer orders in full truckloads from its East Coast facilities. The challenge: bring down freight costs to compete in a hyper-competitive market.

Grocery Cooperative Improves Distribution to Member Supermarket Chains

Challenge: A large retail grocery cooperative depends on outsourced logistics services to meet the needs of its member-owners - grocery retail chains - for fast, accurate and efficient distribution.

24x7 Global Parts Support for Mission-Critical Medical Equipment Uptime

Challenge: Patient care is the utmost priority for our client providing sophisticated radiation therapy and radiosurgery tools and treatment systems in over 5,000 hospitals globally. Mission-critical service parts must be available with little advance warning. A decentralized approach created serious service disruptions and inconsistencies requiring global continuity.

Supporting Around the Clock Digital Document Management Systems Availability

Challenge: Serving Fortune 50 to 500 companies in industries such as finance, publishing, and legal, this international provider of digital document management technology and services is known for its reliability of 24/7 printing, sorting, and binding of documents, billing transactions and other material critical for business operations.

enVista Teams With Avercast for Inventory Forecasting, Demand Planning

enVista has joined with Avercast to provide demand-planning and sales and operations planning (S&OP) applications to users of Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Electronics Waste Often Shipped Illegally to Developing Nations

The disposal of computers and other electronic and electrical goods, e-waste, is a growing global problem, with much of the often dangerous junk winding up in emerging countries.

Improper E-waste Disposal Often Results in Counterfeit Parts Re-entering Electronics Supply Chain

The counterfeiting of electronics (as well as the exporting of e-waste, which has been demonstrated to directly enable this type of counterfeiting) is currently seen as only a minor crime, even though it has been extensively proven to cause financial loss, injury, and death. That may be changing.

Accellos Integrates TMS With Rand McNally's Mobile Devices

Accellos Inc. has integrated its Prophesy Dispatch transportation-management software (TMS) with Rand McNally's in-cab mobile fleet-management devices.

Newgistics Announces E-Commerce App, Partnership and Acquisition

Newgistics Inc. has developed new electronic-commerce software based on hybris, an SAP company and commerce platform provider.

Inventory optimization drives 26% sales growth through supply chain synchronization

Challenge: A beverage bottler needed to reduce Out of Stocks and enable better inventory turnover. Additionally, a Vendor Managed Inventory solution was needed to provide KPI's on internal and client stock levels, demand planning, event management and order administration.

Move Over, 3D Printing - 4D Printing Is About to Shake Up Manufacturing

If you haven't yet gotten used to the idea that 3D printing is playing an important role in the supply chain, you'd better hurry up. 4D printing is about to change today's manufacturing by adding transformation capabilities to 3D-printed objects on an industrial scale.

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