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Specialty Chemical Manufacturer Gets Enterprise-Wide Visibility and Collaboration

Challenge: Our customer was struggling with unstable demand and lack of visibility across its five manufacturing plants in a mixed MTS/MTO environment. The firm needed to improve planning processes and get everyone collaborating on one set of numbers.

Beverage Manufacturer Brews Up Impressive Sourcing Improvements with CombineNet

Challenge: One of the world's largest brewing companies relies on a highly complex freight network to ship raw materials, packaging and finished product between suppliers, breweries, warehouses and customers. The complexity of the European network, with 2,500 lanes, led to a "decentralized" sourcing approach, with multiple sourcing events across Europe.

Kewill Flagship gives a mail-order gift company year-round efficiency

Challenge: The flow of parcel shipping at a premier mail-order gift company can vary greatly depending on the time of year challenging efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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.

Used Truck Comparisons in Every Category Up Month-Over-Month in July

In what may be an unprecedented event, all the month-over-month comparisons - volume, price, miles and age - for all weight groups of used trucks improved in July.

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.

Supply Chain Management Has to Be Flexible as Global Demographics Change

Population trends have vast and wide-ranging impacts, affecting everything from economic patterns to the balance of political power. The ability - and flexibility - to adapt to these shifts, however incremental, will determine a company's degree of success and access to opportunities for many years to come. There is no time like the present to determine what this will likely mean for supply chain management.

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