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Home Lighting Manufacturer Streamlines Fulfillment Using Kewill Flagship

Challenge: A leading home lighting manufacturer had been experiencing significant growth and operational practices were becoming very labor intensive. In addition, they were in the process of redesigning the physical flow of work in the distribution center. The client also needed to ensure that any new solutions introduced into their existing technology footprint had to integrate with their Oracle PeopleSoft ERP system.

Product Assembly at Warehouse Cuts Costs by $500,000

Challenge: A leading cooler manufacturer invented the collapsible cooler in 1990. The company was eager to increase supply chain efficiency by assembling products on-demand. They began working with Weber Logistics in Southern California to create a lean, agile distribution operation.

Specialty Retailer Relies on Weber Logistics for Store Replenishment, eFulfillment

Challenge: A fast-growing specialty retailer of nutritional products, with over 500 stores nationwide and growing online sales, was expanding westward. Since it was no longer practical to replenish west region stores from the east coast, a west coast DC was established with Weber Logistics.

Pet Food Company Collaborates with KANE to Drive Distribution Efficiency

Challenge: A mid-sized pet food company had operated its own distribution center outside Boston, but decided to outsource DC operations to improve performance on inventory accuracy, code date tracking, food-grade compliant storage and other critical warehouse measures. 3PL Kane Is Able (KANE) was chosen to operate the DC in Scranton, PA.

Winery Partners with KANE to Shorten Cycle Times

Challenge: A major winery was distributing all its wine products from its California location. This resulted in 7-day to 21-day delivery cycles to its customers - 500 U.S. wine distributors. The company, and its independent logistics services subsidiary, wanted to shorten this cycle and chose Kane Is Able, Inc. to be its Northeast logistics partner.

The Benefits and Drawbacks of Permitting Employees to Use Their Own Devices at Work

Anthony Perkins wants employees at BNY Mellon to bring their personal smartphones to work and use those instead of company-issued BlackBerries to access business email, applications and data. But not all employees are comfortable with having their personal phones locked down and controlled as tightly as the BlackBerries that Perkins would like to phase out. That's where the notion of containerization comes in.

Emcien Issues Update of Application for Analyzing Customer Buying Patterns

Emcien Corp. has released a new version of EmcienPatterns, its application for analyzing customer buying patterns by retailers, distributors and consumer packaged goods manufacturers.

Electronics Industry Issues Guide for Reporting Substances in Electronic Product Packaging

A guide for the supply chain disclosure of substances used in packaging for the global sale and distribution of electronic products has been issued by the Consumer Electronics Association, DIGITALEUROPE, and the Japanese Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative.

Pricing Dips as Cloud Computing Services Become Commodities

Cloud computing is slowly becoming a mainstream technology. However, even before the hype cycle has died down, cloud providers are already starting to see downward price pressures. Every hosting provider under the sun is now repackaging itself as a cloud provider, and basic capacity and services are quickly becoming commodities.

Liaison Technologies Acquires Hubspan, Cloud-Based Business Integration Vendor

Liaison Technologies, a provider of cloud-based integration and data-management services, has acquired Hubspan, the business-integration software vendor.

IAS Unveils New Service for Intermodal Chassis Providers

International Asset Systems (IAS) has introduced ChasssisManager, a service intended to simplify the rental process and maximize asset utilization for chassis providers.

Cheetah Software, Efreightsolutions Team Up on Integrated Logistics Intelligence

Cheetah Software Systems Inc. has teamed up with Efreightsolutions to offer customers an integrated logistics intelligence application.

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