Challenge: One of the main issues our larger clients have is being able to appropriately account for freight expenses. Many times, freight expense is allocated to a product, or product line of business, via a cost pool approach that does not reflect actual divisional or departmental expenditures.

Challenge: A manufacturer of high value consumer products came to Transport Security, Inc- ENFORCER ® seeking assistance in monitoring at-risk shipments in transit. Transport Security, Inc. implemented their ENFORCER ® Embedded Tracking Technology. The ENFORCER ® Tracking Technology allows the client to embed the technology within their shipment and covertly track their assets via a web -based application.

Challenge: Our client chose to take back control of its transportation operations by implementing IBM Sterling Transportation Management System (TMS). The company had used a 3PL but faced slow communication with vendors and carriers and insufficient information about pick-up times was leading to a surplus of safety stock levels.

Challenge: An SMC ³ customer needed to conduct a strategic bid for $20 million in annual LTL freight shipments encompassing 140,000 shipments from four of its operating divisions. The volume of freight data represented 58 origins with 59 lanes out of each origin. The customer also needed to convert from a 13-year old base rate, to streamline the transportation operations from a merger.

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: Following a period of tremendous growth, our client made the decision to shift to an outsourced manufacturing model. But with hundreds of trading partners around the globe-each with unique systems and protocols-our client was unable to manage the growing number of external operations, or to keep pace with increasingly volatile demand signals.

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 leading chemical manufacturer uses the Elemica Logistics Sourcing services with Transportation Bid Optimization to help them prepare for predicted capacity constraints and to streamline, automate and run dynamic sourcing events for logistics transportation. The rapidly changing transportation services market requires companies to run more frequent transportation bidding events that encompass all transportation modes.

Challenge: When supply chains become global new challenges arise. Different data systems, planning methodologies and distribution networks must suddenly combine into a cohesive system. When our client faced this challenge they needed a solution that could integrate their supply chain planning data into one decision-supporting platform.

Challenge: Before our client moved to Datalliance, they recognized that their older VMI system was becoming a limitation as more of their customers became interested in VMI. That system required considerable time commitments from IT, sales, and customer service to bring new customers on board. The client realized that they couldn't expand the program at the required pace. The ability to implement VMI quickly and effectively with a broader range of customers was critical to their success, but we needed to find a better approach.