 Our client established themselves as the second largest winemaker in the U.S. with distribution in 90 countries worldwide. Our client's winery ships product to a set of regional distribution centers by rail and from RDCs to distributor companies by full truck loads. A 3PL subsidiary provides all transportation services for the winery and outside companies. The corporate vision of our client is, "to become the most innovative global marketer and distributor of wine." In order to achieve their vision, they have determined that their corporate priorities must include the expansion and strengthening of their distribution network. Our client has grown to become a leading retailer with approximately 1,500 stores worldwide. This particular retailer is a market share leader in both the U.S. and Japan. Domestically, it operates the largest free-standing destination toy and baby specialty stores. The company is strongly focused on strengthening the customer shopping experience by providing merchandise and improved customer service levels. Our client, a leading health and beauty organization sells its products principally through direct selling channels and representatives, as well as operates a consumer website that helps its representatives to manage their business electronically. The company is strongly focused on manufacturing and marketing its beauty products for women worldwide. Our client, a regulated utility company established well over a century ago, provides electricity and natural gas products and services to more than 400,000 customers within an 11,000 square mile service territory. This customer base includes residential, farm, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers. Providing its customers with the best value in energy and related services is our client's mission. Our internal client, a specialized consulting organization, primarily focuses on providing premium supply chain management (SCM) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to both commercial and government clients. In addition to our client providing a full range of services, they specialize in the implementation of application such as Manugistics, SAP (APO, BW, PLM), i2, Siebel, and SAP CRM. This specialized consulting firm is comprised of individuals with significant industry, Big Five and software consulting experience. In their combined experience, our client has implemented or upgraded the Manugistics application over 100 times.   Our client was established in 1961 by the Department of Defense to consolidate disparate and redundant service inventory management and distribution operations. They have grown into the largest combat support agency in the Department of Defense by providing worldwide logistics support to the military services. Our client manages nearly 4.6 million items and is committed to establishing itself as the best value provider of logistics products and services to the military and authorized customers. Our client received a DoD contract to conduct design risk reduction studies for a business process re-engineering effort underway in a particular service branch. The contract specified both availability rates and target effectivity. In order to meet the defined efficiency rates, our client would need to balance stockpiling inventories against budgetary constraints. A new business model of providing long-term service and logistics for the life of an advanced technology system faced our client. At the component level, our client did not possess forecasting capabilities that were linked to either replenishment or deployment processes. Based upon the responsiveness defined in the contract, our client realized that its internal manual processes could not successfully support the DoD's end capability. |
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