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Client is Floored by Savings & Efficiencies

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Global flooring company was experiencing growing sales and increased pressure on logistics. Client had manual processes and lacked visibility. Reports showing freight spend were nonexistent. Verifying shipment deliveries became labor intensive. Client needed to become more competitive with their delivered sales pricing.

Confronting the Obstacles to Inbound Management

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Before 2008, multiple transportation providers handled a solar power manufacturer's global inbound freight, but their growth necessitated a more streamlined process for managing this aspect of their business. Challenges included manual processes, limited visibility to the entire supply chain, and costly expedited shipments.

Helping Three Disjointed Divisions Become One

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Resulting from significant growth through acquisition, our client, a Specialty Food Sales & Marketing firm, was challenged with consolidating three disjointed divisions. Providing customers with a single point of distribution for all product lines was paramount.

Consolidation Drives 62% Reduction in Outbound Freight Costs

April 24, 2012

Challenge: A mid-market food manufacturer was experiencing high LTL freight costs for distribution to grocery and mass retail chains. It sought a 3PL partner that could combine its freight with other companies to move goods in lower-cost truckload volumes.

Network Technology Manufacturer Achieves Best-in-Class Supply Chain Execution

April 24, 2012

Challenge: A leader in networking technology, this customer guarantees repair and replacement of failed hardware within 24-hours. Warehousing and transportation are not this company's core competencies, so fulfilling that promise was a challenge.

Sportswear Retailer Teams Up With DHL Supply Chain-Brazil - Improves Service, Reduces Costs

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Every three months, the client introduces a new line of products, creating peak volumes on specific launch dates. Client needed to integrate their supply chain to support rapid growth projections while meeting peak volumes, reducing logistic costs, and improving service, traceability and delivery conformity.

Fresh Customer Service: Focusing Intensely on What Stores Need

April 24, 2012

Challenge: A convenience store chain was experiencing issues with inconsistent and unpredictable deliveries, especially for daily deliveries of fresh items. This resulted in gaps in service for items their customers wanted and a substantial amount of lost sales.

E-Commerce Fulfillment Solution Brightens Holiday for Leading Toy Retailer

April 24, 2012

Challenge: The plan was to redesign the retailer's online business platform. We needed to include co-location of partner resources, minimize both start-up and test time, and allow for a large-scale deployment of human resources, with new warehousing and fulfillment operations ready prior to holiday season.

Fortune 1000 Company Saves $1.2M on its Marketing Supply Chain

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Our Fortune 1000 client with over 3,800 employees and 11,700 retail locations, needed to find a way to manage multiple vendors, multiple resources and understand their total cost of ownership within their Marketing Supply Chain. The client had never undertaken an assessment nor did they understand best practices as it pertains to the Marketing Supply Chain (Specialty POP, Displays, Printed Material and Promotional Merchandise).

Operations Overhaul Reduces Distribution Costs by $280k - Delivery Standards Improved

April 24, 2012

Challenge: DiSanto and Associates overhauled and implemented "zone skip" and "cross docking" operation for our client, reducing distribution costs by $280k and improving delivery standards to both retail and consumer sector (ongoing savings).

All Warehouse Services

The latest news, analysis, services and solutions regarding warehousing and distribution systems and their impact on global supply chains. Today’s companies are moving goods across more suppliers, vendors and customers than ever before, and warehouses are critical points in the overall supply chain. New technologies in warehouse management systems (WMS), automation, robotics, RFID and order fulfillment are transforming the way companies do business — and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition in their industries. As these solutions continue to evolve, businesses are discovering new ways to increase efficiency and cut costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving supply-chain operations through their strategic use of warehousing and distribution services.