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Retailer/Supermarket Company Optimizes Operations via Holistic Approach
Challenge: Integrated optimisation of primary and secondary distribution networks for major retailers and supermarkets represents a very complex supply chain planning problem. Our client has a complex network of distribution centres, consolidation centres and suppliers which delivers a multi-temperature product range to a demanding nationwide customer base. Challenges include tight delivery constraints, complex trunking and consolidation operations, temperature constraints, thousands of vehicle movements and a dynamic ordering profile with variable demands. Before MJC ²'s software was introduced the operation was partitioned into smaller more manageable sections for planning purposes. This led to significant inefficiencies, with poor utilisation of resources and unnecessary empty running.
Vision-Guided Robotic Industrial Pallet Trucks Save the Day
Challenge: Today's smart logistics executives have found the most effective way to optimize their operations and increase bottom-line performance.
WMS Improves Company's Supply Chain Visibility, Performance, and More!
Challenge: Our client implemented RedPrairie's Warehouse Management solution in its Phoenix, Arizona Global Solutions Center to manage distribution and the wide array of value-added services. They subsequently implemented Warehouse Management at their two European distribution centers and two 3rd party logistics projects.
Handhelds "Talk" to WMS via High-Security WiFi Network, Guaranteeing Security
Challenge: To Psion's clients, speed and accuracy are everything. One client, a world-leading provider of transport forwarding and logistics services specializes in intercontinental air and ocean freight shipments and supply chain management solutions. Shipments needed to be on time and complete and in a highly competitive industry, productivity has a direct impact on the bottom line.
Moller, Danish Shipping Patriarch, Dies; Execs Say Company Strategy to Remain the Same
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, who transformed his Danish family shipping business into the world's biggest container shipping company, has died at the age of 98.
Big Data May Be New Buzz Word, But Managing Critically Important Data Isn't
The data explosion: so much to look at, so much to sift through! We are so fascinated with big! Big boats, big cigars and big shoes. But what, really, is big data? What does it mean to your business? And how can you or should you manage it? Although adoption of the buzz word is new, the management of big data is not.
Government, Retail, Logistics to Boost Huge Growth in RFID Market Through 2017
The market for RFID transponders, readers, software and services will generate $70.5bn from 2012 to the end of 2017. The market was boosted by a growth of $900m in 2011 and the market is expected to grow 20 percent year over year per annum. Government, retail, and transportation and logistics have been identified as the most valuable sectors, accounting for 60 percent of accumulated revenue over the next five years.
RILA Praises Entry into Force of U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement
Following the announcement by President Barack Obama and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will enter into force May 15, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) said the benefits of the pact will be huge.
Driving Savings in Your Transportation Spend
Optimizing transportation costs includes analyzing agreements, auditing invoices and assessing value-added processes, says John Haber, founder and CEO of Spend Management Experts. But it's also about identifying contract "gotchas" and "smoke-and-mirror" pricing.
Customer Analytics Help Netflix to Know What Your Tastes Are
Netflix executives John Ciancutti and Todd Yellin are trying to create a video-recommendation system that knows you better than an old friend. It's a critical mission as Netflix faces pressure from its internet video rivals and subscribers still smarting from recent price hikes.
Alliance for Innovation and Operational Excellence
AIOE was organized last year to bring together operations executives of consumer packaged goods companies in order to develop and share best practices in production operations, says Tom Egan, vice president of industry services at PMMI, which launched the Alliance.
AFS Technologies Debuts 2012 Version of Priya Standard WMS App
AFS Technologies Inc. has released Priya Standard 2012, the company's warehouse management system (WMS) software.
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