Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 CPG company with a shared-services Procurement and Sourcing team that supports the sourcing activities of dozens of global brands and business units representing a large percentage of the company's spend. As the team increased its spend under management, they found that their existing ERP and procurement tools were not adequate to meet their e-sourcing needs. They required a solution that could more effectively support strategic spend areas with robust features, yet speed and simplify their workload.

Challenge: Our customer, a specialty retailer selling casual apparel for three highly-visible brands, was lacking a system for supplier collaboration. Sourcing thousands of products from around the world, it needed a system for production tracking and visibility into every phase of the product lifecycle - pre-production tracking, costing, order management, logistics tracking, and material liability.

Challenge: A worldwide leader in the soft drink industry recently installed a Westfalia Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Savanna.NET ® Warehouse Management Control Software (WMC) at their plant in Tampa, FL. Chief among the objectives of this facility expansion, besides maximizing storage space with the high density AS/RS, is to build store ready pallets.

Challenge: In today's market with increased customer service demands on top of escalating operating costs, it's imperative to develop streamlined processes to drive operational efficiency in supply chain operations. A major retailer with home delivery service learned just how much impact the proper technology solution can have when they chose Descartes as a partner. They were challenged with a manual delivery planning process that had proven inefficient and lack of visibility into activities on the road was detrimental to their customer service.

Challenge: DiCentral aided a major North American retailer in the development of new EDI specifications that followed industry best practices and VICS standards, and then helped the retailer implement these specifications with their respective vendor communities.

Challenge: Voxware helped a major foodservice distributor with 18 DCs manage their voice picking operations from one centralized server. This allows the workers to get products out the door without being burdened with IT-related tasks.

Challenge: A US Sporting Goods Retailer improved its supply chain by utilizing software to automate the procurement process, from determining risks associated with each vendor before a PO was created to the time the shipment arrived at the US port.

Challenge: Our client, a retail chain with over 70 stores, needed to improve the accuracy of its paper-based order picking operations and improve their picking error rate at their distribution center. Their research of technologies led them to Voice based picking solutions. From there they evaluated three vendors' voice based picking solutions via three week pilot programs with each solution and compiled the productivity and accuracy statistics.

Challenge: As our client, a world-renowned beverage company, took on more suppliers and their specific packaging requests, it became imperative that the company optimize its sourcing patterns. Our client realized it needed technology that would enable it to manage dramatic sales volumes, maintain customer services levels, as well as provide better visibility into demand.

Challenge: When a start-up company needed to be receiving and shipping in less than a week, they turned to SphereWMS. Our client, a distributor of telecom equipment who landed a big contract, required life-cycle serial number control in multiple warehouses in several countries.