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Specialty Chemical Manufacturer Optimizes Supply Chain Operations across Four Continents
Challenge: A specialty chemical manufacturer with seasonal market demand was struggling with limited visibility to its global operations. The company needed to integrate many different ERP systems and add advanced planning tools to improve planning, forecasting and scheduling capabilities and increase visibility to complex demand patterns.
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.
Industrial Supplier Superstore Keeps Next-Day Promise with Distribution Center Redesign
Challenge: Our client made a bold promise to its customers. Order any of its 600,000 products from its vast super store of industrial supplies by 8:00 pm EST, and get next day delivery. But with more than 2 million square feet of warehouse space and the highest SKU count in the industry, keeping that promise was a challenge.
Product Protection Rises as a Top Supply Chain Concern Among Healthcare Execs
Healthcare executives around the world are investing in their supply chains as they prepare for continued global growth in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment, according to data from the fifth annual UPS "Pain in the (Supply) Chain" healthcare survey.
EU, Australia Agree to Link Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems
European climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard and Australian climate change minister Greg Combet have announced that Australia and Europe will link their emissions trading systems, which will allow businesses to use carbon trading units from either trading scheme for compliance under either system.
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