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Major Supermarket Chain Shops for Optimized Distribution, Finds Overall Savings
Challenge: A major supermarket chain used Logistix Solutions' Logix Distribution Network Design tool to identify significant savings from consolidation of inbound distribution to its network of stores in the United States.
TMS Implementation Transports Big Retailer to Significant Savings
Challenge: Used by many Fortune 1000 companies and leading 3PLs, LeanLogistics On-Demand TMS ® delivers complete transportation planning, execution, settlement, and procurement, as well as supply chain visibility and business intelligence to improve business processes, increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Industrial Gas/Specialty Chemical Company Streamlines Ocean Carrier Pipelines
Challenge: Booking ocean cargo for our global client's industrial gases and specialty chemicals was inefficient, requiring excessive time and manpower. The client needed to streamline the process to improve the flow of their products for timely delivery to their customers.
Routing Change Makes Huge Impact on Food & Beverage Company's Savings
Challenge: Our customer in the Food and Beverage industry had an inbound volume of 10 containers per week from one origin into the Atlanta area via US Southeast ports.
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.
TMS Spices up Food Ingredient Manufacturer's Operations, Visibility
Challenge: It's hard to manage what you don't know. When our client, a large food ingredient manufacturer sought out our transportation management solution, there was data spread out across multiple facilities and paper freight bills piled high waiting to be processed. Compiling this data into meaningful information was a lengthy and a cumbersome task.
New TMS Saves Time and Money for Harried Customer, Carriers
Challenge: "We had been sold bills of goods by previous TMS vendors," explained one MercuryGate customer. "These on-site systems were tough to integrate, difficult to manage and they simply didn't do what they were supposed to do. Mired in data entry and administration, we fell behind in freight payment. Carriers were screaming; we had seven people working 15 hour days, including weekends…"
Freight Procurement Company Cuts the Fat on Shipping Costs for Food Manufacturer
Challenge: Your company spends millions of dollars on shipping every year, and you know there has to be a better way to manage it. McLeod Freight Management Solutions (FMS) not only devises a shipping plan that promises to cut your shipping costs by 10-20% annually, it also ensures that those savings are delivered. Our client achieved savings at that level while managing freight procurement for two Fortune 500 food manufacturers.
Driving Savings in Your Transportation Spend
Optimizing transportation costs includes analyzing agreements, auditing invoices and assessing value-added processes, says John Haber, founder and CEO of Spend Management Experts. But it's also about identifying contract "gotchas" and "smoke-and-mirror" pricing.
Carrier Transicold Offers 'Next-Generation' Trailer Reefer Technology
Carrier Transicold, a supplier of systems for maintaining temperature controls during shipping, has developed "next-generation" trailer refrigeration technology.
IT Focus at Many Manufacturers Shifts from ERP to Core Operations
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SCM Outpaces Many Sectors in Use of Leading Technologies
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