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.

Challenge: During their start-up years our client lacked an integrated business software solution to accurately track job hours and material costs. As a result, our client was grossly undercharging for their services, resulting in year-over-year profit loss.

Challenge: Our client manufactures six different varieties of transmissions totaling more than one million units per year for several global automotive brands. Serving their broadly dispersed and diverse customer base requires the constant movement of many different parts to the assembly area, which must be well orchestrated to avoid delays associated with excess movement, or the cost associated with storing excess work-in-process inventory.

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: Our client approached CDM with a problem related to product visibility and compliance. Our client had just received a penalty notice from CBP regarding non-compliance of importer security filing. Our client had outsourced the importer security filing to a third party and because of the erroneous filings; our client was stuck with handling and mitigating the CBP penalties.

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: In a highly competitive transportation market, with growing demands from all parties in the supply chain, transportation solutions become more individual and complex. Therefore, trustworthy and flexible logistics is more in focus now than ever before. Four Soft is empowering an international freight management company with the power to act according to their customers' individual needs.

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.