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Home Electronics Company Adopts S&OP Process for Significant Supply Chain Improvement

Challenge: Faced with increasing lead times due to international sourcing and cost pressures, while squeezed on the sell side with increasing service pressures, a $200 million US-based home electronics company turned to Demand Works.

Mobile Hydraulics Company Lifts On-Time Order Performance with Demand-Driven Solution

Challenge: When a top-tier mobile hydraulics company engaged DemandPoint, they needed to dramatically improve their on time orders to remain competitive in their market.

Parts Manufacturer Launches New S&OP Process - Growth & Cash Flow Soar

Challenge: Key inventory planning personnel retired from a parts manufacturer for heavy duty vehicles, and the resulting experience/knowledge void led to costly inventory mistakes. Because the company's cash was tied up in the wrong inventory, its ability to stock the needed products was limited. Over two years, the company launched a new S&OP process to correct its inventory and cash problems.

Mid-Sized CPG Company Improves Sales, Operations, Customer Service - With One Solution

Challenge: With limited IT resources, multiple ERP systems, and an unprecedented need for greater business visibility, a mid-sized CPG company turned to Silvon for help.

Optimized Planning Tool Transforms Company, Brings 6x Return on Total Investment

Challenge: Like all manufacturers, our client's value chain behaves in a non-linear fashion influenced by supply chain capacities, straight and over-time labor rates, input/output price curves, etc., making it difficult to focus on the most profitable activities and products. Recently, demand volatility, input price fluctuations with contractual discount curves, retailer pressures, and multiple decision points along the value chain increased the difficulty of conducting business using traditional costing and supply planning tools.

Retailer/Supermarket Company Optimizes Operations via Holistic Approach

Challenge: Integrated optimisation of primary and secondary distribution networks for major retailers and supermarkets represents a very complex supply chain planning problem. Our client has a complex network of distribution centres, consolidation centres and suppliers which delivers a multi-temperature product range to a demanding nationwide customer base. Challenges include tight delivery constraints, complex trunking and consolidation operations, temperature constraints, thousands of vehicle movements and a dynamic ordering profile with variable demands. Before MJC Â²'s software was introduced the operation was partitioned into smaller more manageable sections for planning purposes. This led to significant inefficiencies, with poor utilisation of resources and unnecessary empty running.

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.

Chainalytics Unveils Tool for Analyzing Freight Markets

Chainalytics LLC, a provider of supply-chain intelligence, analytics and advisory services, has introduced Integrated Freight Market Intelligence (iFMI).

AFS Technologies Debuts 2012 Version of Priya Standard WMS App

AFS Technologies Inc. has released Priya Standard 2012, the company's warehouse management system (WMS) software.

Arena Solutions Teams With ERP Logic on PLM for SAP Customers

Arena Solutions has joined with ERP Logic to provide a product lifecycle management (PLM) tool for users of SAP AG's Business ByDesign application.

Zepol Corp. Enhances Its Trade-Intelligence Software

Zepol Corp. has introduced a pair of enhancements to its flagship trade-intelligence tool, TradeIQ. The changes make it easier to search for and extract precise trade data for U.S. importers and shippers, and to notify parties.

Del Monte Foods Puts Its Head in the Cloud

Never mind the naysayers: Del Monte Foods is a big believer in cloud technology. In just three years, the $3.7bn company has placed its entire inbound supply chain in the cloud. The result, according to senior manager of global trade compliance Brian White, has been tighter relationships with suppliers, and greater visibility of product in the pipeline.

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