Challenge: After setting up a first site, the client was looking for European expansion opportunities preserving the quality and considering the costs of their products.

Challenge: A leading OEM required significant flatbed capacity and more efficient scheduling for transporting frames from supplier to assembly plants.

Challenge: This datacenter infrastructure start-up with a global installed base and support centers around the world, turned to Baxter to help: • Meet 4-hour and next-day on-site hardware service commitments. • Quickly scale service and support globally. • Maximize resources to focus on core competencies.

Challenge: One of the largest privately owned health food distributors was operating with a replenishment system that could not keep up with the growth of the company. They needed a best-of-breed Inventory Optimization system that could create accurate forecasts and manage their highly seasonal product line and could be implemented using their existing systems.

Challenge: An industry-leading manufacturing company with multiple suppliers needed greater visibility of actual activity to balance planned activity against operational decisions. To ensure the manufacturing process is not interrupted, containers are often required to be shipped on short notice, and the company needed a way to reduce expedited shipping charges.

Challenge: For a company that built its reputation on flawless customer service, this Tennessee-based B2B supplier of safety equipment was disheartened by its chronically late, and frequently error-laden shipments to Canada. Mistakes seemed to be happening throughout its entire distribution chain: Incorrect SKUs, inefficient transit routes, high costs and ineffective technology systems were among the many problems.

Challenge: When a large U.S. B2B supplier of gardening tools and equipment decided to expand to the Canadian market, it enlisted its U.S.-based logistics provider to service its new Canadian customers, and assumed all would proceed as planned.

Challenge: The distribution centers were processing about 150 truckloads per day, 10 truckloads per hour. An automated WMS was needed for expansion into cold store market. Current work flows were not fully automated, causing manual errors. Material flows between product, semi-finished inventory and packaging stages were long and complex. Frozen pallets left the refrigeration system too early, so goods arrived damaged.

Challenge: A sophisticated warehouse management system (WMS) was needed to go live in 7 months to meet the company's new Direct Customer Shipment concept, which changed its supply chain to include additional countries.

Challenge: Global Fortune 500 technology company needed to reduce post-sales dispatch costs while improving asset return rates.