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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.
Organizers of Third-Party Logistics Study Want Your Participation
As part of their continuing supply chain research, Penn State University, Capgemini Consulting, Panalpina and eyefortransport are seeking the participation of supply chain and logistics professionals in their in 2012/2013 Third-Party Logistics Study.
Canadian Logistics Company Tracks Pet Food Shipments Via RFID
Canadian logistics firm J.D. Smith and Sons has completed a six-month trial of radio frequency identification technology to track the loading, shipping and receipt of bagged pet food for a pet-product retailer. The company is now offering an RFID-based service to track its customers' goods, based on reads of RFID tags embedded in J.D. Smith's pallets.
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.
Manufacturer Centralizes Procurement to Ensure Trade Compliance, Improve Supplier Coordination
Challenge: As part of an initiative to centralize its global procurement operations, a Fortune 500 diversified manufacturer of engineered components and products needed a way to effectively manage its importing process and reduce procurement costs while enabling real-time collaboration with its global suppliers.
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.
Supplier Risk and Compliance: Increasingly Important but Under-Recognized
Most companies today are heavily outsourced and have suppliers spread out across the globe. Yet firms' knowledge of their suppliers and the environments they operate in is often limited and out-of-date, crippling their ability to successfully manage the dynamics of their supply base. This has introduced substantially more risk in global businesses.
Freight Payment Provider Debuts Outsourced Freight Claims Service
Cass Information Systems, a provider of transportation, utility, telecom and waste invoice payment and information services, has launched Cass Freight Claims Services, an offering that allows shippers to effectively outsource the labor-intensive process of managing freight loss and damage claims and, in some cases, increase claims recoveries by decreasing threshold levels.
Overcoming Major Enterprise Challenges to CRM
CRM challenges are still a reality in today's market. The question is: How do you overcome them? The bottom line is getting buy-in throughout the organization, from the cubicle worker to the executive suite. How you do that, though, requires an intentional strategy.
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.
Association of European Airlines Wants Parity in EU, U.S. Air Cargo Security Rules
Europe's leading network carriers, represented by the Association of European Airlines (AEA), are urging U.S. regulators to fully recognise European air cargo security standards and accelerate progress towards a mutual recognition agreement.
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