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Guitar Manufacturer Faced Multiple Customs-Related Challenges in Exporting to Canada

Challenge: A U.S. guitar manufacturer faced challenges in reaching its Canadian customers. Both U.S. and Canadian regulators had concerns with the guitars' components. The company was assessed 'per product' inspection fees, and its Canadian customers were required to pay import duties and complete customs documentation. And, a high level of damage was sustained during transit.

Private Label Juice Maker Puts the Squeeze on Inventory

Challenge: Simultaneously balancing inventory, meeting customer service needs, and maximizing production efficiencies is a challenge for any company. For a leading national private label juice and drinks producer this combination adds a few unique demand planning complexities.

Global Apparel Brand Turns to Supply Chain for Differentiation

Challenge: An innovative sports garments, footwear and accessories manufacturer must manage a complex global supply chain with a dynamic product portfolio produced in nearly 20 countries. The company's exponential growth and manual processes led to challenges balancing inventory with financial goals and service levels.

Kenco Enables Global Retailer to Re-launch Brand in North America

Challenge: A global retailer specializing in fashion, home living, and leisure products re-launched one of its brands in North America and needed a multi-channel supply chain solution. It required a 3rd party logistics provider who could support rapid growth and meet high customer expectations. The retailer chose Kenco.

Global Consumer Products Company Improves Compliance, Achieves Significant Duty Savings

Challenge: A global food and beverage company, after enviable international growth, realized that their global trade product classification processes required a transformation. Their US, Canada, and European teams operated independently and relied on inefficient, manually intensive processes and duplicate efforts. The company also needed to create a more efficient NAFTA eligibility identification process.

Apparel Retailer Outfits Supply Chain with Automation, Gains Real-Time Visibility

Challenge: This leading apparel retailer lacked visibility into its supply chain. Its homegrown system relied on spreadsheets, emails and phone calls with international business units and over 30 trading partners. The company needed a single, detailed view of shipments and orders to create reliability in the global supply chain.

Chemical Manufacturer Gains Visibility with Acsis Serialization and Partner Management

Challenge: A major chemical manufacturer was rolling out a new product across multiple geographies. This product was highly susceptible to both counterfeiting and diversion, and if used incorrectly could cause harm to the user as well as pose an environmental safety hazard.

Socket Mobile Develops New 2D Attachable Barcode Scanner

Socket Mobile Inc., a provider of mobile productivity technology, has developed model 8Qi of its 2D cordless hand scanner.

Apparel Wholesaler Gets Retail Customers In and Out With Their Purchases Quicker with RFID Technology

Brazilian children's clothing wholesaler Brascol is tagging the merchandise that retailers buy at its wholesale outlet, and has installed RFID-enabled checkout system to enable faster purchases by those customers. The RFID system, supplied by iTag Technology, relies on RFID tags made with NXP Semiconductors' Ucode7 UHF chips to quickly identify a shopping cart's contents.

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CPG Manufacturer Uses Simulation Scenarios to Find Savings

Challenge: A large consumer goods manufacturer performed a strategic network design project to identify considerable savings in transportation costs, warehouse costs and inventory costs by consolidating warehouses. However, the inventory savings assumed full consolidation of inventory at the new warehouses; this was not consistent with the management incentives that were used in the business. An alternative suggestion of separate stocks for each market wiped out a large chunk of savings.

Large Packaged Foods Manufacturer Eliminates Redundancy in Supply Chain

Challenge: One of North America's largest packaged foods producers acquired a major frozen food manufacturer. With fuel costs on the rise, the company needed to re-evaluate their inbound and outbound distribution strategies given the expanded network. Specifically, which DCs should service which customers and what was the optimal quantity and location for DCs and what the fuel cost "tipping point" would be where the optimal network would not be advantageous.

CPG Brand Reduces Overall Logistics Costs by 11% with LLamasoft

Challenge: A major CPG brand needed to consolidate their supply chain to reduce redundancies, such as an overlapping network and shared demand to decrease overall costs, while still delivering products to customers in a timely manner.

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