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Sweet Pickings:-Manufacturer's Fulfillment and Distribution Operations Symbolize Efficiency and Accuracy
Challenge: The leader in the dark and premium chocolate industry needed to update its manual, paper-based order and fulfillment operation, and "right size" capacity and establish repeatable processes across its distribution center network.
Advanced System for Set Top Boxes Improves Testing Accuracy, Reduces Expenses for Cable Operators
Challenge: Improving the testing process of set top boxes (STB), eliminating subjectivity, reducing human error, and ensuring that customers don't receive bad units, was a challenge facing one tier-one cable provider.
Transition With Surgical Precision: 3PL's Solution Enables Smooth DC Start-ups
Challenge: A medical device company was not meeting inventory and process accuracy goals, and was switching its global systems to SAP.
Client is Floored by Savings & Efficiencies
Challenge: Global flooring company was experiencing growing sales and increased pressure on logistics. Client had manual processes and lacked visibility. Reports showing freight spend were nonexistent. Verifying shipment deliveries became labor intensive. Client needed to become more competitive with their delivered sales pricing.
Confronting the Obstacles to Inbound Management
Challenge: Before 2008, multiple transportation providers handled a solar power manufacturer's global inbound freight, but their growth necessitated a more streamlined process for managing this aspect of their business. Challenges included manual processes, limited visibility to the entire supply chain, and costly expedited shipments.
Helping Three Disjointed Divisions Become One
Challenge: Resulting from significant growth through acquisition, our client, a Specialty Food Sales & Marketing firm, was challenged with consolidating three disjointed divisions. Providing customers with a single point of distribution for all product lines was paramount.
Consolidation Drives 62% Reduction in Outbound Freight Costs
Challenge: A mid-market food manufacturer was experiencing high LTL freight costs for distribution to grocery and mass retail chains. It sought a 3PL partner that could combine its freight with other companies to move goods in lower-cost truckload volumes.
Network Technology Manufacturer Achieves Best-in-Class Supply Chain Execution
Challenge: A leader in networking technology, this customer guarantees repair and replacement of failed hardware within 24-hours. Warehousing and transportation are not this company's core competencies, so fulfilling that promise was a challenge.
Sportswear Retailer Teams Up With DHL Supply Chain-Brazil - Improves Service, Reduces Costs
Challenge: Every three months, the client introduces a new line of products, creating peak volumes on specific launch dates. Client needed to integrate their supply chain to support rapid growth projections while meeting peak volumes, reducing logistic costs, and improving service, traceability and delivery conformity.
Fresh Customer Service: Focusing Intensely on What Stores Need
Challenge: A convenience store chain was experiencing issues with inconsistent and unpredictable deliveries, especially for daily deliveries of fresh items. This resulted in gaps in service for items their customers wanted and a substantial amount of lost sales.
E-Commerce Fulfillment Solution Brightens Holiday for Leading Toy Retailer
Challenge: The plan was to redesign the retailer's online business platform. We needed to include co-location of partner resources, minimize both start-up and test time, and allow for a large-scale deployment of human resources, with new warehousing and fulfillment operations ready prior to holiday season.
Fortune 1000 Company Saves $1.2M on its Marketing Supply Chain
Challenge: Our Fortune 1000 client with over 3,800 employees and 11,700 retail locations, needed to find a way to manage multiple vendors, multiple resources and understand their total cost of ownership within their Marketing Supply Chain. The client had never undertaken an assessment nor did they understand best practices as it pertains to the Marketing Supply Chain (Specialty POP, Displays, Printed Material and Promotional Merchandise).
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