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Vocollect Voice Arrive 'Just in Time'

Challenge: In variety retailing market where customers face shopping options at nearly every street corner, building trusted relationships with customers and maintaining their loyalty is the recipe for success. And the only way to earn that trust and keep customers coming back for more is to have the right products on its shelves at the right time, every time.

How Incentive Pay Programs Pay Off

Labor incentive programs can work hand in hand with your supply chain strategy by improving such things as productivity and quality. But, says Tom Stretar, senior project manager, enVista, employees must see the benefits to them if these programs are to succeed.

Store Salespeople at Disadvantage When the Shopper Is More Informed

Bringing e-commerce into the store is more than a luxury: it's a necessity, since online channels have fundamentally changed the shopping experience. Today, when shoppers enter a store, they may have already done product research, checked ratings and reviews, and compared prices.

One FTZ Solution Manages Multiple Foreign Trade Zones Compliantly

Challenge: A 3PL firm wanted to offer FTZ management services as a new business line. It converted multi-use warehouse space into separate FTZs for individual customers, but needed a solution that could concurrently accommodate multiple customer accounts, maintain complete data segregation, accommodate complex integration requirements, and automate compliance activities.

Zepol Releases New Trade-Compliance Tool for Importers

Zepol Corp., a provider of trade intelligence and management tools, has released ComplianceIQ.

Data Integration Enables Real-Time Decision Making

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Lifesaving Global Supply Chain Drives out Costs, Improves Customer Delivery

Challenge: A leading supplier of specialist medical devices and equipment for global markets was humming along nicely until a critical part was not delivered on time, and an important customer became unhappy. Clearly the ERP system was not good enough - Supply Chain Visibility and Supplier Collaboration were required to ensure mistakes of this magnitude never happened again. Other objectives included: Reduce raw material inventory levels; Increase inventory turns by 20%; Reduce manual processes; Reduce expediting; Continue to meet or exceed customer service levels; Promote stronger, collaborative relationship between buyers and suppliers.

Aligning Supply to Demand through Supplier Collaboration and Inventory Management

Challenge: A critical division of a multi-billion dollar medical device manufacturer had several initiatives. Stabilize Inventory Levels: Inventory reduction project already complete; Ensure critical-part availability; Stock-outs not acceptable. Streamline Supplier Communication: Reduce time buyers spend on tactical purchasing; Increase time buyers spend on strategic buying and sourcing; Improve communication between material handlers, buyers, suppliers. Find a solution that Worked with ERP system. Evolve Personnel operations: Transactional to Strategic; Complex to Simple; Semi-Collaborative to Fully-Collaborative; High Transaction Cost to Lower Cost; Fragmented Integration to a Fully Integrated System.

Global Online Shopping Retailer Achieves End-to-End Shipment Visibility

Challenge: Our client's top issues included a lack of supply chain visibility and collaboration, coupled with disparate functional groups and external business partners. High seasonality compounded problems, bringing: Supply chain lags and disruptions; Poor customer service; Lost sales due to inability to deliver goods in time; Higher administrative costs due to manual, disjointed processes, internally and with external partners; Greater expediting and demurrage fees.

Collaborative Transportation Management Leads To Significant Freight Bill Savings

Challenge: A leading producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality branded food products needs control, scalability and visibility to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Leading Food Company Achieves Savings By Leveraging Managed Transportation Services

Challenge: A leading supplier and solutions provider to food service, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces needs centralized control, scalability and visibility into process to better manage and measure transportation execution management.

Many IT Professionals' Networks Aren't Ready for Cloud Migration, Study Finds

As the role of cloud computing is growing significantly in its ability to deliver business applications, many IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud.

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