Success Stories

Logistics Optimization

Challenge The challenge for our client was to manage distribution to minimize total supply chain costs while meeting customer service goals. The complete cost picture included the impact of inventory throughout the system (DCs, hubs and vendors), the administrative costs of order management at the vendor and DCs, and freight costs. The use of a…

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Restructuring Commodity-Driven Supply Chain

Challenge With thousands of stores in North America and a wide variety of meat-based products (beef, chicken, pork, fish), which are consumed daily, a large quick service restaurant (QSR) chain needed a high-performance manufacturing and logistics system to maintain their high service level standards. Their goal was to design the best supply chain with respect…

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Driving Distribution Costs Down

Challenge Our client’s complex, multi-tier distribution system services thousands of stores in the United States and is utilized for thousands of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) that are shipped from hundreds of vendors through a major network of distribution centers. The products distributed to our client’s stores range from short shelf life items such as produce…

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Pork Profitability Optimization

The Challenge Our client needed to grow—but in the right way. The company was growing in terms of volume, but not profits, and leadership wanted to build a more strategic growth plan on its significant invested capacity. To do this, they faced the challenge of simultaneously finding profitable deals, managing the potential risk of lower…

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Electronics Supply Chain Optimization

Challenge A large electronic equipment manufacturer faced the challenge of transforming its planning and decision making capability. The company needed a more structured and fact-based approach that facilitated the best possible decisions in a variety of common situations for each of its functional entities (sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, logistics and service organizations.) Individual business entities were…

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