Pharmaceutical/Biotech

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.

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.

It Pays (Big!) to Have Spend Management on Your Side

April 24, 2012

Challenge: This national educational materials company suspected they weren't getting the best parcel shipping rates that they could and turned to Insource Spend Management Group to help recover revenue and cut costs. The company had negotiated their own parcel shipping contracts with a leading worldwide 3PL in the past, and after 30 years thought they were getting the best rates they could on their own.

Five Keys to Better Project Implementations

April 24, 2012

Gerry Jeffs, Director, Project Mgt & Implementation Svcs, APL Logistics

It's often been said that "no one sets out to make a bad movie." But each year, even some of the world's most talented filmmakers succeed in doing just that. In much the same way, no one aims to pull off a less-than-perfect logistics start-up or transition; yet such "failures" happen all the time, even to companies with the best of supply chains and noblest of project management intentions.

Enabling a Connected Point-of-Sale System for CPG Firms

April 20, 2012

Indy Sawhney, Dir., Strategic Accts, Mfg. Industry GroupÃ¢â‚¬â€œAmericas, MindTree Ltd.

An integrated point-of-sale IT strategy will help CPG firms gain valuable insight into consumption data that can pave the way for a positive impact in a number of important areas. They include new/improved product formulation, inventory optimization, supply chain optimization, trade promotion management and optimization, and demand/forecast optimization. Furthermore, an integrated POS strategy can create a win-win for all stakeholders involved, including the retail partners.

Input Sought for Performance Study of Procurement Organizations

April 20, 2012

The Hackett Group

A newly-launched performance study from The Hackett Group Inc. is designed to help procurement organizations improve how they enable their companies' growth, in revenue and other areas. The open performance study should assist procurement leaders move beyond cost savings, and better understand the progress and strategies used in all facets of growth.

Soft Drinks Leader Sips Up Savings - New Warehouse Management Control Software

April 20, 2012

Challenge: A worldwide leader in the soft drink industry recently installed a Westfalia Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Savanna.NET Â® 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.