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Online Retailer Makes Millions with New Automated WMS

Challenge: An online retailer was growing quickly. Its homegrown warehouse management system (WMS) was error prone and inefficient. The warehouse team was picking orders using just a piece of paper. In order to keep up with the growth and stay true to its commitment to customer service, the company invested in a WMS from HighJump Software. Management was looking for a highly adaptable, comprehensive and automated system that could be quickly implemented to boost efficiency and accuracy.

Optimized Network Configuration Creates Higher Efficiency, Lower Operating Costs

Challenge: Our client was facing consecutive increasing operational costs over the last two years; executive management needed a clear picture on how to turn this trend around.

Major WMS Implementation Project Goes Off Without a Hitch

Challenge: Our client was gearing up for an eleven-site WMS implementation of a leading SCE software vendor but needed help understanding how to tackle such a deployment. The client needed to know how long the project would take, how much would the project cost, they needed help leading the initiative, they needed help integrating the new WMS within their existing IT infrastructure, and they needed to understand the work effort required to successfully implement the WMS solution.

Voice Picking Solution Brings 99.8%-Plus Order Accuracy to 100 D.C.'s

Challenge: With over 65,000 employees across 630 facilities managing to ship 50,000 deliveries per year, being efficient and accurate is necessary to maintaining customer service and market share. Along the way, finding new technology to help grow and improve operational efficiency is often desired, but never easy. That's when one of our clients turned to us to utilize our Voice Picking solution to help them maintain order accuracy levels for shipments and to create more flexibility drive efficiency in their 100 busiest DC's.

Natural Foods Company Makes Strategic Changes for a Healthier Supply Chain

Challenge: Our client is a large, privately owned wholesaler-distributor of health and natural food products in the U.S. The company was experiencing significantly high labor costs and inefficient distribution and supply chain processes. The client turned to enVista to develop a supply chain strategy to meet its aggressive business goals.

Warehouse Control System Helps Company Master Rapid Growth

Challenge: Paper-based systems can still meet some distribution center needs, but in general, they do not support rapid growth successfully. When our client was experiencing strong growth and needed assistance to increase throughput and productivity, we studied their current environment, and, coupled with data analyses of where they wanted to be and would have to be in the coming months and years to meet their business goals, recommended a retrofit of a store fulfillment system.

Vision-Guided Robotic Industrial Pallet Trucks Save the Day

Challenge: Today's smart logistics executives have found the most effective way to optimize their operations and increase bottom-line performance.

WMS Improves Company's Supply Chain Visibility, Performance, and More!

Challenge: Our client implemented RedPrairie's Warehouse Management solution in its Phoenix, Arizona Global Solutions Center to manage distribution and the wide array of value-added services. They subsequently implemented Warehouse Management at their two European distribution centers and two 3rd party logistics projects.

Handhelds "Talk" to WMS via High-Security WiFi Network, Guaranteeing Security

Challenge: To Psion's clients, speed and accuracy are everything. One client, a world-leading provider of transport forwarding and logistics services specializes in intercontinental air and ocean freight shipments and supply chain management solutions. Shipments needed to be on time and complete and in a highly competitive industry, productivity has a direct impact on the bottom line.

An Introduction to the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council

The Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council was formed around 2005 by Cisco Systems Inc. It was created to bring together risk-management experts who could share best practices and bring process standardization to the way in which risks are identified in the global supply chain, according to John J. Brown, director of risk management with The Coca-Cola Co.

New Distribution Pattern at Arts, Crafts Supplies Provider

As business continued to grow at Darice, reportedly the country's largest full-line arts and crafts wholesaler and distributor, so did inefficiencies in its distribution system.

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The Challenge of Lean Collaboration for OEMs, Contract Manufacturers

A conversation with Jay Hollenbeck, director of business solutions with Flextronics.

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