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One Excellent Wireless Replenishment Solution, A Lot of Moving Parts
Challenge: Our client manufactures six different varieties of transmissions totaling more than one million units per year for several global automotive brands. Serving their broadly dispersed and diverse customer base requires the constant movement of many different parts to the assembly area, which must be well orchestrated to avoid delays associated with excess movement, or the cost associated with storing excess work-in-process inventory.
Soft Drinks Leader Sips Up Savings - New Warehouse Management Control Software
Challenge: A worldwide leader in the soft drink industry recently installed a Westfalia Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Savanna.NET ® Warehouse Management Control Software (WMC) at their plant in Tampa, FL. Chief among the objectives of this facility expansion, besides maximizing storage space with the high density AS/RS, is to build store ready pallets.
Importer Makes Good on Non-Compliance Penalties with Product Visibility Support
Challenge: Our client approached CDM with a problem related to product visibility and compliance. Our client had just received a penalty notice from CBP regarding non-compliance of importer security filing. Our client had outsourced the importer security filing to a third party and because of the erroneous filings; our client was stuck with handling and mitigating the CBP penalties.
Retailer Plans Route to Success with Real-Time Visibility for Delivery Operations
Challenge: In today's market with increased customer service demands on top of escalating operating costs, it's imperative to develop streamlined processes to drive operational efficiency in supply chain operations. A major retailer with home delivery service learned just how much impact the proper technology solution can have when they chose Descartes as a partner. They were challenged with a manual delivery planning process that had proven inefficient and lack of visibility into activities on the road was detrimental to their customer service.
Retailer Brings Its Vendors Up-to-Speed with Compliance Best Practices
Challenge: DiCentral aided a major North American retailer in the development of new EDI specifications that followed industry best practices and VICS standards, and then helped the retailer implement these specifications with their respective vendor communities.
One Solution Optimizes Usability, Visibility, Reporting & Workflow for Freight Management
Challenge: In a highly competitive transportation market, with growing demands from all parties in the supply chain, transportation solutions become more individual and complex. Therefore, trustworthy and flexible logistics is more in focus now than ever before. Four Soft is empowering an international freight management company with the power to act according to their customers' individual needs.
Major Foodservice Distributor Commands Voice Picking Operations Via Central Server
Challenge: Voxware helped a major foodservice distributor with 18 DCs manage their voice picking operations from one centralized server. This allows the workers to get products out the door without being burdened with IT-related tasks.
US Sporting Goods Company Ensures Procurement Process "Plays Fair"
Challenge: A US Sporting Goods Retailer improved its supply chain by utilizing software to automate the procurement process, from determining risks associated with each vendor before a PO was created to the time the shipment arrived at the US port.
Voice-Centric Solution Maximizes Both Operational and Employee Efficiency
Challenge: This small global company has a very complex supply chain, with many small warehouse locations. It needed to realize efficiencies by standardizing workflows across many distribution sites. At the same time, like many businesses, it needed to expand its brand while containing costs. Further, any solution the company deployed would have to handle a wide variety of cultures and languages.
Retailer Picks an ROI Winner With New Voice Based Picking Solution
Challenge: Our client, a retail chain with over 70 stores, needed to improve the accuracy of its paper-based order picking operations and improve their picking error rate at their distribution center. Their research of technologies led them to Voice based picking solutions. From there they evaluated three vendors' voice based picking solutions via three week pilot programs with each solution and compiled the productivity and accuracy statistics.
Seamless Roll-Out: From Centralized Inventory Management to Globalized Aftermarket Supply Chain
Challenge: In the construction equipment industry, service parts availability is critical. Before working with Syncron, our client's dealer supply chain was fragmented with each dealer being responsible for their own inventory management. It was difficult for our client to get visibility or control of the supply chain to ensure high service levels for their end-customers, with inventory overstocking, obsolescence and emergency orders creating huge unnecessary costs.
World-Renowned Beverage Company Drinks Up New Approach to Sourcing
Challenge: As our client, a world-renowned beverage company, took on more suppliers and their specific packaging requests, it became imperative that the company optimize its sourcing patterns. Our client realized it needed technology that would enable it to manage dramatic sales volumes, maintain customer services levels, as well as provide better visibility into demand.
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