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Nestle Orders Suppliers to Comply with Animal Welfare Standards

Swiss corporate giant Nestle has pledged broad new animal welfare standards for its worldwide suppliers, becoming the latest major food company looking to limit some of the harmful effects of its global footprint.

National Home Improvement Retailer Halved Transportation Costs with Inbound Pool Points

Challenge: Analyzing historical transportation data revealed a high number of small volume, prepaid shipments from nationwide vendors to the company's West Coast DC. Software modeling suggested that a network of pool points (cross-docking facilities) could yield substantial savings.

Dock Scheduling Solution Delivers $1 Million+ ROI for Machinery Manufacturer

Challenge: A global Fortune 500 heavy machinery manufacturer experienced challenges on inbound freight moves from their vendors. Carriers were experiencing 4-6 hour wait times upon arriving at the customer’s assembly plants to deliver mission-critical parts. In addition to incurring demurrage (waiting) charges from the carriers and overtime pay costs to unload the backlog of deliveries, their carriers were reluctant to deliver to these plants and offered non-favorable rates.

Global TMS Delivers Savings through Harmonization of Systems and Practices

Challenge: Our client was looking for a single, centralized solution to harmonize their transportation planning and execution processes. With business operating units in US, Europe, China and Brazil, they had been using different, customized software solutions to manage fragmented transportation practices at each and realized they were hemorrhaging costs on transportation spend, freight bill settlement, operational overhead, and IT support.

Distribution Center "Re-Visioning"

Challenge: Our client is a unique and well-positioned specialty retailer in the wedding gown industry, competing in a large and stable industry with over 300 stores in the United States and Canada, but back in 2005 their business was outgrowing their capacity, they were at a crossroads regarding how to grow, design, improve and optimize their operations.

Global Marine Engineering Firm Standardizes Procurement of Temporary Crew Positions

Challenge: The sourcing team within a global marine engineering firm was challenged with standardizing its temporary personnel procurement process, specifically for crew staff for its fleet of 100 maritime vessels. As the team collected global requirements, it became clear that a number of factors would add complexity throughout the process, as there were 34 different staffing vendors with multiple compensation frameworks fulfilling the 46 crew positions utilized in 9 geographical regions.

Bundled Cloud and WMS Implementation Solution Delivers ROI

Challenge: One of the world's largest snack companies needed a rapid deployment consisting of JDA WMS and Cloud Services for a new 3PL site. The customer did not have the technical WMS expertise nor the hardware infrastructure.

Retailers Run Risk Back-to-School Out-of-Stocks Will Permanently Drive Customers Away

If a retailer is out of stock of an item just twice, 40 percent of parents looking for back-to-school items say they will avoid shopping at that retailer again.

WMS with Numerous Capabilities Still a Dream for 35 Percent Stuck in Manual Rut, Survey Finds

Many shippers and 3PLs want a warehouse management solution - and one that is quipped with such capabilities as electronic data interchange - yet more than a third of businesses still use paper, pen or spreadsheets as their WMS.

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Integrating Supply and Demand into a Single Plan of Record

Challenge: A large wireless infrastructure solutions experienced a loss of operations visibility and control after outsourcing its manufacturing. Disconnected supply and demand plans and an antiquated forecasting tool left forecast elements out of sync by two or three months in some cases.

Private Label Juice Maker Puts the Squeeze on Inventory

Challenge: Simultaneously balancing inventory, meeting customer service needs, and maximizing production efficiencies is a challenge for any company. For a leading national private label juice and drinks producer this combination adds a few unique demand planning complexities.

Chemical Manufacturer Gains Visibility with Acsis Serialization and Partner Management

Challenge: A major chemical manufacturer was rolling out a new product across multiple geographies. This product was highly susceptible to both counterfeiting and diversion, and if used incorrectly could cause harm to the user as well as pose an environmental safety hazard.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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