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US Wine & Spirits Distributor Heightens Visibility & Operations

Challenge: The second largest distributor of wine and spirits in the US, our client operates in a tightly regulated industry with outdated business processes and systems, and was challenged by a lack of visibility to inbound orders from its global vendors and suppliers.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.

Online Retailer Makes Millions with New Automated WMS

Challenge: An online retailer was growing quickly. Its homegrown warehouse management system (WMS) was error prone and inefficient. The warehouse team was picking orders using just a piece of paper. In order to keep up with the growth and stay true to its commitment to customer service, the company invested in a WMS from HighJump Software. Management was looking for a highly adaptable, comprehensive and automated system that could be quickly implemented to boost efficiency and accuracy.

Military/Aerospace Company Gains Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Challenge: Our client, a large manufacturer of interconnect products, deployed InfinityQS software in its military/aerospace division. The application allows users to conduct extensive comparative quality data analysis throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain.

Optimized Network Configuration Creates Higher Efficiency, Lower Operating Costs

Challenge: Our client was facing consecutive increasing operational costs over the last two years; executive management needed a clear picture on how to turn this trend around.

Large Retailer Goes Non-Traditional - Finds Radical Success in the Cloud

Challenge: A large retail customer spent several years and millions of dollars trying to get end-to-end, item level visibility across their global supply chain. After two CIOs and expensive software write offs, they turned to GT Nexus because we offered a radical alternative to traditional software.

Major Supermarket Chain Shops for Optimized Distribution, Finds Overall Savings

Challenge: A major supermarket chain used Logistix Solutions' Logix Distribution Network Design tool to identify significant savings from consolidation of inbound distribution to its network of stores in the United States.

TMS Implementation Transports Big Retailer to Significant Savings

Challenge: Used by many Fortune 1000 companies and leading 3PLs, LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS Â® delivers complete transportation planning, execution, settlement, and procurement, as well as supply chain visibility and business intelligence to improve business processes, increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Industrial Gas/Specialty Chemical Company Streamlines Ocean Carrier Pipelines

Challenge: Booking ocean cargo for our global client's industrial gases and specialty chemicals was inefficient, requiring excessive time and manpower. The client needed to streamline the process to improve the flow of their products for timely delivery to their customers.

Routing Change Makes Huge Impact on Food & Beverage Company's Savings

Challenge: Our customer in the Food and Beverage industry had an inbound volume of 10 containers per week from one origin into the Atlanta area via US Southeast ports.

Global Pasta Maker Cooks Up Optimal DC Location with Powerful Analytics Tool

Challenge: A large, global pasta maker needed to analyze their supply chain network to determine where to add another distribution center. The company ships a wide-variety of products from manufacturing locations to multiple distribution centers.

Major WMS Implementation Project Goes Off Without a Hitch

Challenge: Our client was gearing up for an eleven-site WMS implementation of a leading SCE software vendor but needed help understanding how to tackle such a deployment. The client needed to know how long the project would take, how much would the project cost, they needed help leading the initiative, they needed help integrating the new WMS within their existing IT infrastructure, and they needed to understand the work effort required to successfully implement the WMS solution.

Voice Picking Solution Brings 99.8%-Plus Order Accuracy to 100 D.C.'s

Challenge: With over 65,000 employees across 630 facilities managing to ship 50,000 deliveries per year, being efficient and accurate is necessary to maintaining customer service and market share. Along the way, finding new technology to help grow and improve operational efficiency is often desired, but never easy. That's when one of our clients turned to us to utilize our Voice Picking solution to help them maintain order accuracy levels for shipments and to create more flexibility drive efficiency in their 100 busiest DC's.

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