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GT Nexus Joins With Kurt Salmon for Inventory Visibility
GT Nexus is partnering with Kurt Salmon to provide retailers with end-to-end visibility of their global inventories.
Technology Touch 10
Automating Upstream Supply Chain Leads to Efficiencies, Cost Savings in Oil & Gas Industry
The rapid progress of technology, such as big data and analytics, sensors, and control systems, offers oil and gas companies the chance to automate high-cost, dangerous or error-prone tasks. Most oil and gas operators are starting to capture these opportunities and would do well to accelerate their efforts. Companies that successfully employ automation can significantly improve their bottom line.
Cosmetics Company Uses RFID System to Prevent Forklift Accidents in Its Warehouse
One year after cosmetics company L'Oréal Italia installed an RFID-based system to prevent forklift-related collisions in its busy warehouse, the company has not had a single such accident.
Nestle Orders Suppliers to Comply with Animal Welfare Standards
Swiss corporate giant Nestle has pledged broad new animal welfare standards for its worldwide suppliers, becoming the latest major food company looking to limit some of the harmful effects of its global footprint.
Military Logistics Kuwait
Kuwait's most senior-ranked armed forces and logistics supply chain industry event to include General Officers involved with logistics from Kuwait, NATO and international forces
National Home Improvement Retailer Halved Transportation Costs with Inbound Pool Points
Challenge: Analyzing historical transportation data revealed a high number of small volume, prepaid shipments from nationwide vendors to the company's West Coast DC. Software modeling suggested that a network of pool points (cross-docking facilities) could yield substantial savings.
Universal Uses Multi-Modes to Provide Customized Solutions for its Customers
Challenge: Severe congestion for customer because retrograde moving back to US ports from Iraq. Expedited move of 6.2 million lbs. of heavy rolling stock origin to destination to be completed within 18 days. Length of haul, maintaining control of the cargo and expedite to destination within constrained RRD. Rail not an option due to congestion at the destination and their ability to quickly unload rail cars.
Dock Scheduling Solution Delivers $1 Million+ ROI for Machinery Manufacturer
Challenge: A global Fortune 500 heavy machinery manufacturer experienced challenges on inbound freight moves from their vendors. Carriers were experiencing 4-6 hour wait times upon arriving at the customer’s assembly plants to deliver mission-critical parts. In addition to incurring demurrage (waiting) charges from the carriers and overtime pay costs to unload the backlog of deliveries, their carriers were reluctant to deliver to these plants and offered non-favorable rates.
Global TMS Delivers Savings through Harmonization of Systems and Practices
Challenge: Our client was looking for a single, centralized solution to harmonize their transportation planning and execution processes. With business operating units in US, Europe, China and Brazil, they had been using different, customized software solutions to manage fragmented transportation practices at each and realized they were hemorrhaging costs on transportation spend, freight bill settlement, operational overhead, and IT support.
Distribution Center "Re-Visioning"
Challenge: Our client is a unique and well-positioned specialty retailer in the wedding gown industry, competing in a large and stable industry with over 300 stores in the United States and Canada, but back in 2005 their business was outgrowing their capacity, they were at a crossroads regarding how to grow, design, improve and optimize their operations.
Global Marine Engineering Firm Standardizes Procurement of Temporary Crew Positions
Challenge: The sourcing team within a global marine engineering firm was challenged with standardizing its temporary personnel procurement process, specifically for crew staff for its fleet of 100 maritime vessels. As the team collected global requirements, it became clear that a number of factors would add complexity throughout the process, as there were 34 different staffing vendors with multiple compensation frameworks fulfilling the 46 crew positions utilized in 9 geographical regions.
Major US Retailer's eSourcing Solution Exceeds 50% ROI through Decentralization
Challenge: Adopt a solution that can be easily rolled out to buyer and category manager desktops throughout the organization, plus scale across other departments in the enterprise.
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