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Construction Equipment Manufacturer Identifies 12-15% Cost Savings

Challenge: A global manufacturer of construction equipment needed to reduce inventory holding costs and improve response times for spare part deliveries to customers.

Nakivo Updates Cloud-Based Data-Protection Application

Nakivo Inc., a provider of data-protection software for VMware virtualized environments and cloud backup, has released version 4.1 of Nakivo Backup & Replication.

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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Supertanker - Super Savings: Running a Tight Ship with Automated Dock Scheduling

Liquid bulk shipping requires complex planning and scheduling. For many oil, gas and chemical companies, getting the business in shape to manage incoming and outgoing shipments drives competitive edge. As prices fluctuate on a daily basis, understanding the options on large crude oil vessels and having up-to-date market information is vital when bidding on spot cargo to accurately schedule your fleet. Being able to take all unassigned ships to a legal berth, with all constraints considered, is a logistic and economic challenge. So, how can companies maximize profitability and avoid unnecessary demurrage costs?

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Dramatic Shifts in Manufacturing Costs Driving Companies to Change Global Production Strategies, Report Finds

Major shifts in cost competitiveness around the world over the past decade are starting to spur a number of companies to change their global sourcing and manufacturing investment strategies, according to The Boston Consulting Group's report, The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing: How Cost Competitiveness Is Changing Worldwide.

Number of Container Vessels Plying the Seas Continue Downward Slide

The number of container ships afloat has decreased in the first half of 2014 and could fall on an annual basis this year, for the first time in at least 20 years. Although the total TEU nominal capacity of the global fleet continues to increase by about 6 percent a year, this growth in capacity now comes solely from the increase in average ship size, not from having more ships.

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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.

Home Improvement Manufacturer Decreases Supply Chain Costs While Centralizing Network

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of home improvement and building products was operating across dozens of brands, in multiple of retailers across the globe. Their logistics network was being operated at an independent level per brand, leaving multiple opportunities for overlap and inefficiency. However, with such a level of complexity, they knew streamlining their network would be a challenge.

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.

Leading Shipper Leverages B2B Software to Improve Supply Chain Communication

Challenge: A large temperature-controlled carrier was looking for a way to send real-time status reports to all members of their supply chain. They were also growing rapidly and needed a solution that was able to on-board trading partners at a much faster rate.

Wholesale Supplier Turns to TMS to Improve Operational Decision Making

Challenge: This client, a wholesale supplier of entertainment hard goods, flourished in the order fulfillment space despite an atypical distribution model. Various systems, shipping modes, and customer types brought about operational and accounting issues and the need for a powerful enterprise TMS.

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