Food & Beverage

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).

Retailer Sees 100x ROI in One Year - Enjoys Company-Wide Improvements

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Our client wanted to improve the forecasting and delivery of sales support materials to their various customer-direct distribution and retail locations.

Home Improvement Company Saves $100M+ with New Multi-Channel Distribution Program

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Our Team first worked onsite with a Fortune 50 Home Improvement company. The Program team decided to convert Import (IDC) and Carton (CDC) Distribution Centers into combined Rapid and Stocking (RDC and SDC's) Distribution Centers converting 10 DC's over the course of 6 months.

Large Oilfield Services Provider Gains Supply-Chain Efficiency in Latin America

April 24, 2012

Challenge: As our client's Latin American business expanded throughout the years, focus and resources were allocated to areas vital to the development of the core business. This left the Supply Chain and Logistics areas in need of support and technical resources.

CPG Company Applies 'Lean Principles' - Trims Processes, Gains $85K

April 24, 2012

Challenge: Our client, a consumer packaged goods company, had struggled to incorporate a holistic view of its manufacturing and distribution capabilities. In 2009, the client partnered with LeanCor to help it start applying lean principles in efforts to make product when and where needed.

US-Based Transportation & Distribution Plan Helps Canadian Company Thrive

April 24, 2012

Challenge: We worked with a Canadian client that wanted to sub-contract their US distribution operations to reduce operating costs but more importantly to allow them to focus on the core business as a manufacturer.

Big-Name Brewery Masters Complexities of the Beer Market in India

April 24, 2012

Challenge: The beer market in India is highly regulated in the form of multiple taxes and duties while transporting beer across provinces. One of the largest breweries in the world, was skeptical that any kind of network design or route planning would be beneficial. Many top tier consulting firms failed to prove so.

Food & Beverage

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the food and beverage industries. Learn how food and beverage companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.