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Automated Order/Payment Processing Drives Down Costs, Increases Operations Efficiency

Challenge: Driving efficiency, in both processing and reporting on orders and payments, is an ongoing crusade. Our client was receiving a very high volume of paper invoices from their key automotive vendor; this relationship was identified as a priority for efficiency improvement. At first glance it appeared that the Government Procurement Card would enable the changes they needed. However the vendor was not Level 2 or 3 capable - meaning the necessary line item detail for orders and payments wouldn't be available to our client.

SaaS WMS for High-Tech Start-up: Faster Implementation, Minimized Up-Front Investment

Challenge: When a start-up company needed to be receiving and shipping in less than a week, they turned to SphereWMS. Our client, a distributor of telecom equipment who landed a big contract, required life-cycle serial number control in multiple warehouses in several countries.

ERP System Brings 95% Savings, 100% On-Time Delivery with Single-Source Solution

Challenge: Meticulous in manufacturing performance and nimble in the ability to optimize plant and supply chain operations are the requirements for our client to meet a diverse range of customer specifications and shipment protocols. With a bar coding software that used up to 12 different databases, and a manual import/export process between EDI and the multiple vendor solutions that made up their ERP application, their system did not support their goals for flexibility and efficiency.

Implementation of New TMS Simplifies Operations, Increases Customer Base

Challenge: There is always concern when there is a major change in technology used company-wide.What if you were told by your customer you had no choice but to change to a new technology because of their changing needs? Our client was in this type of a situation, and needed a new Transportation Management Solution and driver handheld technology.

CPG Manufacturer Uses Data for Continuous Process Improvement, Saves Millions

Challenge: Organizations continue to search for more ways to reduce their transportation expenses. Through our freight audit and payment process, we collect and manage large amounts of transportation expense data, turning it into meaningful business intelligence.

Global Exporter Gains Supply Chain Success Via Improved Communication & Visibility

Challenge: A large U.S.-based manufacturer exports thousands of shipments each year around the globe. Practicing lean supply chain management, the company often manufactures products as orders are received. To meet its customers' needs, on-time deliveries are critical. The exporter's ocean transportation group strives to continuously improve on-time deliveries, communication about changes to cargo delivery dates, and fulfillment of service contract commitments.

Fortune 500 Company Consolidates Carrier Choices, Saves Big on Global Transportation

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 company that serves as the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems. With over 40,000 employees in 60 countries, the $10. 9 billion company ships their products worldwide to customers. All company locations had their own decision making ability to choose their own transportation provider. In 2009, there were over 400 freight forwarders used worldwide for ocean and air shipments.

On-Demand WMS Gives Retailer Optimized Visibility with Minimized Cost

Challenge: Our retail client has been operating their logistics network with 5 distribution centers (DC) across the country to support their stores: one main, centralized DC and 4 regional DCs (RDC). Due to the disparity of the warehouse management solutions (WMS) used by all the DCs, there was no real time visibility across the network to manage inventory and outbound orders. Because their operations were centralized at the main DC, they incurred unnecessary transportation and labor costs.

Trucking Company Improves Customer Service with Real-Time Intelligence

Challenge: One trucking company client implemented Cheetah Freight to intelligently inject technology into their dispatch management process to provide real-time shipment status information to their customers, provide improved decision making tools to P&D dispatchers, and improve the outbound load planning process.

Cost Savings for Freight Payment

Challenge: Prospective customer was having frustrations with their current provider in regards to performing quality audits, seeing visibility of data, better process to handle exception management and being responsive to their overall needs.

CPG Company's Domestic Demand Sensing Tool Leads to Global Implementation for Forecasting

Challenge: Uncertain markets and increased demand volatility have made demand planning difficult for consumer products companies. At the same time, prices of raw materials and fuel have increased making the cost of producing and shipping goods even higher. Our customer's objectives were to improve service levels, decrease costs and improve cash flow by increasing forecast accuracy.

A View to Accuracy: Tools Manufacturer Implements Invaluable Forecasting Solution

Challenge: Our customer manufactures and distributes private label hand tools and related products which are sold at Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, and Pep Boys, among others. In 2009, our customer decided to expand visibility to in-store inventories and improve forecasting and customer service.

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