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Representative illustration: A business-products distributor with 19 DCs needed to cut the cost of planning, buying, moving and storing inventory.

Case Study · Transportation & Logistics

A business-products distributor with 19 DCs needed to cut the cost of planning, buying, moving and storing inventory.

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1Challenge

To stay competitive, the client had to remove non-value-added activities and unnecessary supplier services from its direct spend.

2Approach

  • Diagnosed central purchasing, receiving and payables to find savings and set a roadmap
  • Ran a six-step supplier collaboration on freight, EDI credits, pallet and truckload discounts and joint stocking
  • Automated transaction-heavy work with EDI, ASN and pay on receipt

3Results

11%

Reduction in spend

$3.5M

Identified savings

$1.5M

Implemented savings

Leadership said the results surpassed expectations.

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