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Power Management Company Takes Charge of Demand & Supply Changes

Challenge: A power management technology provider operates in a supply constrained environment where factories are fully loaded and tradeoff decisions are needed frequently, i.e.: If a production lot gets scrapped, what new promise date can be given to customers? If a customer demand gets pulled-in, what is the ripple effect to all other customer orders? If the priority of all orders from a customer is increased, what other orders become at risk?

Global Pasta Maker Cooks Up Optimal DC Location with Powerful Analytics Tool

Challenge: A large, global pasta maker needed to analyze their supply chain network to determine where to add another distribution center. The company ships a wide-variety of products from manufacturing locations to multiple distribution centers.

Railroad Company Saves Customers Millions in Supply Chain Costs

Challenge: As fuel costs, highway congestion and environmental consciousness skyrocket, building a supply chain network that factors in a variety of transportation modes to minimize costs and carbon footprint is critical.

World's Largest Marine Electronics Company Attains Unprecedented Forecasting Accuracy

Challenge: Our client, the world's largest marine electronics company, was forecasting nearly 8,000 SKUs with spreadsheets and manual calculations. Updates had to be communicated with our client's Syteline ERP system in order to complete purchase cycles and track on-hand quantities. The time to consolidate and analyze sales forecasts and inventory requirements could take weeks.

Integration of Client-Customer Systems Yields Finely-Tuned Replenishment Success

Challenge: A manufacturer of high precision machined components was unable to meet the stocking requirements of their largest customer. Though their customer had placed their supply management system online their constant changing of requirements made it difficult for the company to keep pace. Their first option was to create a series of complex spreadsheets to help manage the data. Unfortunately, that process required nearly two hours a day to prepare and despite their efforts stock-outs increased to nearly 50% of managed SKU's.

Customized Forecasting & Requirements Planning Optimizes Volatile Inventory Levels

Challenge: The demand forecasting process looked quite different one year ago compared to the streamlined process that our customer uses today. The company strives to maintain high customer service levels; however, reliance on only "green bar" reports for its inventory planning process caused them to be in constant over or under-stock situations. They needed a solution that could manage seasonality and long lead times ranging from 14 to 135 days, provide effective SKU management, improve fill rates and optimize inventory.

Home Electronics Company Adopts S&OP Process for Significant Supply Chain Improvement

Challenge: Faced with increasing lead times due to international sourcing and cost pressures, while squeezed on the sell side with increasing service pressures, a $200 million US-based home electronics company turned to Demand Works.

Mobile Hydraulics Company Lifts On-Time Order Performance with Demand-Driven Solution

Challenge: When a top-tier mobile hydraulics company engaged DemandPoint, they needed to dramatically improve their on time orders to remain competitive in their market.

Major WMS Implementation Project Goes Off Without a Hitch

Challenge: Our client was gearing up for an eleven-site WMS implementation of a leading SCE software vendor but needed help understanding how to tackle such a deployment. The client needed to know how long the project would take, how much would the project cost, they needed help leading the initiative, they needed help integrating the new WMS within their existing IT infrastructure, and they needed to understand the work effort required to successfully implement the WMS solution.

Voice Picking Solution Brings 99.8%-Plus Order Accuracy to 100 D.C.'s

Challenge: With over 65,000 employees across 630 facilities managing to ship 50,000 deliveries per year, being efficient and accurate is necessary to maintaining customer service and market share. Along the way, finding new technology to help grow and improve operational efficiency is often desired, but never easy. That's when one of our clients turned to us to utilize our Voice Picking solution to help them maintain order accuracy levels for shipments and to create more flexibility drive efficiency in their 100 busiest DC's.

Natural Foods Company Makes Strategic Changes for a Healthier Supply Chain

Challenge: Our client is a large, privately owned wholesaler-distributor of health and natural food products in the U.S. The company was experiencing significantly high labor costs and inefficient distribution and supply chain processes. The client turned to enVista to develop a supply chain strategy to meet its aggressive business goals.

Warehouse Control System Helps Company Master Rapid Growth

Challenge: Paper-based systems can still meet some distribution center needs, but in general, they do not support rapid growth successfully. When our client was experiencing strong growth and needed assistance to increase throughput and productivity, we studied their current environment, and, coupled with data analyses of where they wanted to be and would have to be in the coming months and years to meet their business goals, recommended a retrofit of a store fulfillment system.

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