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Kewill Adds Hosted Shipping App to Product Portfolio

Kewill Plc has introduced Kewill Flagship Express, an application aimed at small and medium-sized businesses with parcel shipments of U.S. origin.

LeanLogistics Expands Into France With New Office in Paris

LeanLogistics, a vendor of transportation management system (TMS) software and related services, has expanded into France with an office in Paris.

Yes, It's Possible to Track Freight Expenses Down to SKU or Product Line!

Challenge: One of the main issues our larger clients have is being able to appropriately account for freight expenses. Many times, freight expense is allocated to a product, or product line of business, via a cost pool approach that does not reflect actual divisional or departmental expenditures.

Covert Transportation Tracking Technology Saves Manufacturer Over $10M in High-Value Goods

Challenge: A manufacturer of high value consumer products came to Transport Security, Inc- ENFORCER Â® seeking assistance in monitoring at-risk shipments in transit. Transport Security, Inc. implemented their ENFORCER Â® Embedded Tracking Technology. The ENFORCER Â® Tracking Technology allows the client to embed the technology within their shipment and covertly track their assets via a web -based application.

Company Fully Automates Transportation/Inventory Management: Net Savings $500K / Year

Challenge: Our client chose to take back control of its transportation operations by implementing IBM Sterling Transportation Management System (TMS). The company had used a 3PL but faced slow communication with vendors and carriers and insufficient information about pick-up times was leading to a surplus of safety stock levels.

Specialized TMS Benefits Shipper and Its Multiple Carriers Alike

Challenge: An SMC Â³ customer needed to conduct a strategic bid for $20 million in annual LTL freight shipments encompassing 140,000 shipments from four of its operating divisions. The volume of freight data represented 58 origins with 59 lanes out of each origin. The customer also needed to convert from a 13-year old base rate, to streamline the transportation operations from a merger.

Implementation of New TMS Simplifies Operations, Increases Customer Base

Challenge: There is always concern when there is a major change in technology used company-wide.What if you were told by your customer you had no choice but to change to a new technology because of their changing needs? Our client was in this type of a situation, and needed a new Transportation Management Solution and driver handheld technology.

CPG Manufacturer Uses Data for Continuous Process Improvement, Saves Millions

Challenge: Organizations continue to search for more ways to reduce their transportation expenses. Through our freight audit and payment process, we collect and manage large amounts of transportation expense data, turning it into meaningful business intelligence.

Global Exporter Gains Supply Chain Success Via Improved Communication & Visibility

Challenge: A large U.S.-based manufacturer exports thousands of shipments each year around the globe. Practicing lean supply chain management, the company often manufactures products as orders are received. To meet its customers' needs, on-time deliveries are critical. The exporter's ocean transportation group strives to continuously improve on-time deliveries, communication about changes to cargo delivery dates, and fulfillment of service contract commitments.

Fortune 500 Company Consolidates Carrier Choices, Saves Big on Global Transportation

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 company that serves as the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems. With over 40,000 employees in 60 countries, the $10. 9 billion company ships their products worldwide to customers. All company locations had their own decision making ability to choose their own transportation provider. In 2009, there were over 400 freight forwarders used worldwide for ocean and air shipments.

Trucking Company Improves Customer Service with Real-Time Intelligence

Challenge: One trucking company client implemented Cheetah Freight to intelligently inject technology into their dispatch management process to provide real-time shipment status information to their customers, provide improved decision making tools to P&D dispatchers, and improve the outbound load planning process.

Cost Savings for Freight Payment

Challenge: Prospective customer was having frustrations with their current provider in regards to performing quality audits, seeing visibility of data, better process to handle exception management and being responsive to their overall needs.

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