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Collaborative Transportation Management Leads To Significant Freight Bill Savings

Challenge: A leading producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality branded food products needs control, scalability and visibility to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Leading Food Company Achieves Savings By Leveraging Managed Transportation Services

Challenge: A leading supplier and solutions provider to food service, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces needs centralized control, scalability and visibility into process to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Aldata Unveils Updates to Category Optimization for Retail

Aldata, a provider of business software for retailers, manufacturers and distributors, has created the 2012 version of Aldata Category Optimization.

Relationship with McLane to Enable Family Dollar to Expand Offerings at Stores

Family Dollar Stores Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with McLane, a major provider of grocery and food service supply chain solutions. Beginning in September, this partnership will enable Family Dollar to offer customers a broader selection of merchandise, including refrigerated and frozen food, across the retailer's more than 7,200 locations in 45 states.

Leading Luxury Global Retailer: First-Class Import Trade Compliance

Challenge: A leading luxury global retailer to the traveling public needed up-to-the-minute Global Trade Content for their Classification (HTS/HS) codes to ensure compliance for duty, taxes and fees. They preferred an on-line solution supported and integrated with daily updated content rather than installed software, and did not want to have to buy hardware or hire trained personnel to complete the task of maintaining content and working through manual databases/processes.

The Smart Machine - A Win-Win Proposition

The days when it was considered cool to wave your credit card to make payments are history. What's cool now is when a consumer at a ball game waves her hand in front of a vending machine, and the machine not only dispenses her favorite drink but also sends her a mobile coupon to share with friends because her team is ahead in the game.

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Seamlessly Combining Two Complex Technology Service Operations

Challenge: Leading Carrier-Class Network Equipment provider purchased a former competitor's optical line of business (fiber optic networks). They needed to integrate all products, services, support & systems (CRMs, operating systems, etc.) while maintaining their high service levels for their combined global client bases.

Order Picking with Horizontal Carousels

Horizontal carousels are the most cost-effective technology for each picking, says Ed Romaine, chief marketing officer, Sapient Automation. Benefits include rapid ROI, and huge savings on floor space and labor. Smaller companies should be especially interested.

Apparel Company Finds the Perfect Fit in Amber Road

Challenge: A leading designer, distributor, and licensor of high quality apparel, needed to precisely calculate bottom-line shipment costs and compare multiple routing and service options; establish sophisticated audit controls for carrier billing; deliver a quick user friendly system implementation; and seamlessly add new functionality as the company's needs grew.

Leading Semiconductor Producer Streamlines Global Logistics Across 45 Countries

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of semiconductors has recently undergone rapid global expansion, completing eleven acquisitions in only seven years. As a result, company needed an effective global trade management strategy to ensure it maintained efficient, compliant cross-border transactions for moving 17 billion units across 45 countries per year.

Wine Distributor Achieves High Spirits with Amber Road

Challenge: One of the largest distributors of wine and spirits in the USoperates in a tightly regulated industry with outdated business processes and systems, and was challenged by a lack of visibility to inbound orders from its global vendors and suppliers. In addition, the company's manual order and shipment tracking processes frequently led to significant delays and difficulty in determining accurate inventory levels and expected arrival dates, leading to reactive expediting and additional intra-company transportation moves.

Intelleflex Forges Partnership With DeltaTRAK for Cold-Chain Management

Intelleflex Inc. has entered into a partnership with DeltaTRAK Inc. to enhance cold-chain technology for the food, pharmaceutical and processing industries.

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