Food & Beverage

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).

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.

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.