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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.

Change and $ave: From Multiple Legacy Software Systems to Proactive GTM Solution

Challenge: A client with multiple legacy software systems approached QuestaWeb to design one comprehensive GTM solution that could streamline its self-entry process, bring ISF preparation in house and automate duty drawback filings.

Big Retailer Rolls in SRM Tool to Create Cohesive Online Supplier Community

Challenge: RollStream was selected by the corporate purchasing team at one of the world's largest retailers to help accelerate the rollout of Oracle 11i financials. Although it was a challenge to bring a collection of global suppliers together quickly, a cohesive online suppler community was created within months.

Large Natural Gas Producer Saves $1.7M Annually With "ePayables" System

Challenge: One of the largest natural gas producers in the United States reached the point where it was processing over 10,000 invoices/month for its Piceance Basin field office alone. They were unable to process these invoices within the standard 30-day timeframe for payment. "Between late fees, operational costs and strained vendor relationships, our payment processing operation was costing us money," said the client's Team Leader. "This was a major issue for us because we were assessed late payment penalties, and we were unable to take advantage of valuable early payment discounts. This directly impacted the business's bottom lineÃ¢â‚¬Â¦"

Increased Growth, Domestic-to-Global Operations All Covered by SCM Solution

Challenge: Our client needed to increase growth, and looked to distribution partnerships, where growth can be faster but where visibility into inventory levels and demand is crucial.

Yard Management System: Increases Visibility, Eliminates Manual Labor/Documentation, Improves Ops Control

Challenge: Our customer deployed Yard Hound at their Southern California trans-load facility.

Domestic Company Transitions to Automated Global Shipping Without a Hitch

Challenge: When your company has a commitment to total customer satisfaction, inventory on-hand to meet demand is but one component of the ability to execute. Our client also needed to be responsive with delivery times to maintain a competitive edge. Additionally, growth into overseas markets highlighted the "domestic nature" of their shipping with manually intensive compliance and customs processes for exports.

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