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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.

Parts Manufacturer Launches New S&OP Process - Growth & Cash Flow Soar

Challenge: Key inventory planning personnel retired from a parts manufacturer for heavy duty vehicles, and the resulting experience/knowledge void led to costly inventory mistakes. Because the company's cash was tied up in the wrong inventory, its ability to stock the needed products was limited. Over two years, the company launched a new S&OP process to correct its inventory and cash problems.

Mid-Sized CPG Company Improves Sales, Operations, Customer Service - With One Solution

Challenge: With limited IT resources, multiple ERP systems, and an unprecedented need for greater business visibility, a mid-sized CPG company turned to Silvon for help.

Optimized Planning Tool Transforms Company, Brings 6x Return on Total Investment

Challenge: Like all manufacturers, our client's value chain behaves in a non-linear fashion influenced by supply chain capacities, straight and over-time labor rates, input/output price curves, etc., making it difficult to focus on the most profitable activities and products. Recently, demand volatility, input price fluctuations with contractual discount curves, retailer pressures, and multiple decision points along the value chain increased the difficulty of conducting business using traditional costing and supply planning tools.

Retailer/Supermarket Company Optimizes Operations via Holistic Approach

Challenge: Integrated optimisation of primary and secondary distribution networks for major retailers and supermarkets represents a very complex supply chain planning problem. Our client has a complex network of distribution centres, consolidation centres and suppliers which delivers a multi-temperature product range to a demanding nationwide customer base. Challenges include tight delivery constraints, complex trunking and consolidation operations, temperature constraints, thousands of vehicle movements and a dynamic ordering profile with variable demands. Before MJC Â²'s software was introduced the operation was partitioned into smaller more manageable sections for planning purposes. This led to significant inefficiencies, with poor utilisation of resources and unnecessary empty running.

Vision-Guided Robotic Industrial Pallet Trucks Save the Day

Challenge: Today's smart logistics executives have found the most effective way to optimize their operations and increase bottom-line performance.

WMS Improves Company's Supply Chain Visibility, Performance, and More!

Challenge: Our client implemented RedPrairie's Warehouse Management solution in its Phoenix, Arizona Global Solutions Center to manage distribution and the wide array of value-added services. They subsequently implemented Warehouse Management at their two European distribution centers and two 3rd party logistics projects.

Handhelds "Talk" to WMS via High-Security WiFi Network, Guaranteeing Security

Challenge: To Psion's clients, speed and accuracy are everything. One client, a world-leading provider of transport forwarding and logistics services specializes in intercontinental air and ocean freight shipments and supply chain management solutions. Shipments needed to be on time and complete and in a highly competitive industry, productivity has a direct impact on the bottom line.

Big Data May Be New Buzz Word, But Managing Critically Important Data Isn't

The data explosion: so much to look at, so much to sift through! We are so fascinated with big! Big boats, big cigars and big shoes. But what, really, is big data? What does it mean to your business? And how can you or should you manage it? Although adoption of the buzz word is new, the management of big data is not.

Government, Retail, Logistics to Boost Huge Growth in RFID Market Through 2017

The market for RFID transponders, readers, software and services will generate $70.5bn from 2012 to the end of 2017. The market was boosted by a growth of $900m in 2011 and the market is expected to grow 20 percent year over year per annum. Government, retail, and transportation and logistics have been identified as the most valuable sectors, accounting for 60 percent of accumulated revenue over the next five years.

An Introduction to the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council

The Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council was formed around 2005 by Cisco Systems Inc. It was created to bring together risk-management experts who could share best practices and bring process standardization to the way in which risks are identified in the global supply chain, according to John J. Brown, director of risk management with The Coca-Cola Co.

FPS Hong Kong Launches Direct Ocean Groupage Service to Hawaii

FPS Hong Kong, a non-vessel operating common carrier and member of the Famous Pacific Shipping Group, is launching direct ocean groupage service to Honolulu, Hawaii.

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