Challenge: A world-wide manufacturer of heavy machinery was looking to reduce costs by moving some of its forklift product via railway service, but had been unsuccessful due to the rail industry’s reservations about transporting forklifts on trains. The customer was also looking for LTL service without incurring costly freight damage, something they had experienced with other carriers in the past due to ill-advised trans-loading.
Challenge: An industry leading technology manufacturer was incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars in chargeback fines from several "big box" retailers that sell their product due to the previous logistics providers' inability to comply with the retailers' stringent delivery protocol.
Challenge: This leading global manufacturer needed to connect over 125 incremental value-add partners to its SAP system to manage the supply chain effectively end-to-end.
Challenge: One of the world’s leading brewers challenge was how to develop planning competencies, across six businesses in Latin America, which were consistent, sustainable, and contributed to operational and financial results.
Challenge: A leading global OTC company needed to standardize its demand planning process across 8 countries, utilizing technology and services to create a consensus plan regardless of technical, language and cultural challenges.
Challenge: A major national retailer of home improvement products was plagued by an inefficient reverse logistics process. Products returned to vendor were controlled on an ad-hoc basis by individual stores or regions, creating major disruptions and poor visibility throughout the supply chain.
Challenge: Our client collects, reports, and analyzes fleet vehicle data before, during, and after trips. They needed Machine-to-Machine connectivity for sensitive communications from vehicles to back-end systems. To maintain their rapid business growth, they wanted an easily managed solution with international reach.
Challenge: A leading food provider that ships fresh fruit from Mexico was impacted by two major issues.
1. Delayed deliveries. When it looked closer into milestone events they found all delays were occurring when trucks went through customs. The delays were having a direct impact on goods quality.
2. Missing trucks and drivers. Drivers in Mexico were being kidnapped.
Challenge: The Demand Planning function fits well into customer's strategy for a comprehensive Production Planning software suite. A key consideration is on the agility within the Demand Planning process as well as its integration to other functions of the Supply Chain.
Challenge: Our customer, a global provider of high performance power semiconductors used in electronic devices, had grown quickly with eleven acquisitions over seven years, and they needed an effective global trade strategy. The company needed to prioritize export compliance, simplify international trade, and standardize worldwide business processes across its offices in 17 countries.