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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).

Operations Overhaul Reduces Distribution Costs by $280k - Delivery Standards Improved

Challenge: DiSanto and Associates overhauled and implemented "zone skip" and "cross docking" operation for our client, reducing distribution costs by $280k and improving delivery standards to both retail and consumer sector (ongoing savings).

Retailer Sees 100x ROI in One Year - Enjoys Company-Wide Improvements

Challenge: Our client wanted to improve the forecasting and delivery of sales support materials to their various customer-direct distribution and retail locations.

Re-Vamp: Automotive 3PL Turns Losses to Profit in 9 Months

Challenge: Our 3PL client experienced challenges handling a service parts returns operation that was added to their scope of services for a major automotive OEM. Site managers, experienced in repair and refurbishment processes but not in distribution processes, had set up the facility and operations with little advance notice. The operation was losing approximately $100K per month.

Home Improvement Company Saves $100M+ with New Multi-Channel Distribution Program

Challenge: Our Team first worked onsite with a Fortune 50 Home Improvement company. The Program team decided to convert Import (IDC) and Carton (CDC) Distribution Centers into combined Rapid and Stocking (RDC and SDC's) Distribution Centers converting 10 DC's over the course of 6 months.

Optimizing FortuneGlobal 200 Company's Inbound Network Brings Massive Supply-Chain Savings

Challenge: The client, a Fortune Global 200 company, had gone through restructuring and wanted support in identifying supply chain savings opportunities. Miebach was tasked with creating a conceptual plan that would generate savings of $25MM per year.

Industrial Supplier Superstore Keeps Next-Day Promise with Distribution Center Redesign

Challenge: Our client made a bold promise to its customers. Order any of its 600,000 products from its vast super store of industrial supplies by 8:00 pm EST, and get next day delivery. But with more than 2 million square feet of warehouse space and the highest SKU count in the industry, keeping that promise was a challenge.

Large Oilfield Services Provider Gains Supply-Chain Efficiency in Latin America

Challenge: As our client's Latin American business expanded throughout the years, focus and resources were allocated to areas vital to the development of the core business. This left the Supply Chain and Logistics areas in need of support and technical resources.

CPG Company Applies 'Lean Principles' - Trims Processes, Gains $85K

Challenge: Our client, a consumer packaged goods company, had struggled to incorporate a holistic view of its manufacturing and distribution capabilities. In 2009, the client partnered with LeanCor to help it start applying lean principles in efforts to make product when and where needed.

Auto Manufacturer Regains Control of After-Market Parts in Asia

Challenge: Auto Manufacturer loses track of high-value Asia-made after-market parts going to dealers, despite routing through consolidators.

TMS Solution Provides 16% Up-Front Transportation Savings with Business Intelligence

Challenge: Having just landed a large account of their own, our client needed to address several transportation pain points in preparation of their anticipated increase in business. Our team of logistics experts was brought in to help address these issues.

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