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GT Nexus Inks Partnership With WNS for Business-Process Outsourcing

GT Nexus has entered into a partnership with WNS (Holdings) Ltd., a provider of global business-process outsourcing (BPO) services.

A Customized Solution for Simplifying Complexity

Challenge: As a global leader in enterprise communications systems, our client needed a way to manage and coordinate large, complex deliveries of equipment to their customers for installs without disrupting ongoing business operations.

Delivering Advanced Warehousing Technology To A High Tech Leader

Challenge: Our client, the leading global service provider for optimizing Internet traffic, had been warehousing and distributing its serialized services and equipment through an off-site vendor. The operation was entirely manual, utilizing spreadsheets, e-mails and telephone communication. The client saw the need for a more efficient, tech-savvy way to conduct business and minimize errors.

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.

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Menlo Enhances 4PL Offerings

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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.

TierOne Automotive Manufacturer Collaborates with Suppliers, Saving 25% in Inventory

Challenge: A multi-billion dollar automotive manufacturer of motor vehicles, engines, components and parts was experiencing significant communication challenges with their global suppliers. The high volume (200,000 parts) and diversity of parts required them to streamline their processes or risk losing customers, money, or both. Their former "push" inventory replenishment system with its one-way faxes and EDI orders could not accommodate any last-minute schedule changes nor did it provide the company or its suppliers with much visibility to stock and orders. Lastly, they needed to improve their supply chain administrative efficiencies internally and among its suppliers to reduce costs.

Accellos Issues Update of One Warehouse, Cloud-Managed Service for 3PLs

Accellos Inc. has developed version 6.4 of AccellosOne Warehouse, the vendor's warehouse-management system software.

Intelleflex Forges Partnership With DeltaTRAK for Cold-Chain Management

Intelleflex Inc. has entered into a partnership with DeltaTRAK Inc. to enhance cold-chain technology for the food, pharmaceutical and processing industries.

Top Five Considerations for WMS in 2012

The cloud is a viable model for a WMS, says Chuck Fuerst, director of product strategy at HighJump Software. Other things to consider are performance-based applications, labor management solutions, voice technology - and underestimating the cost of a WMS upgrade.

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