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A global market leader in the housing, building equipment and sanitary wares industry was languishing with operational inefficiencies. Its disorganized inventories were spread over six warehouses. Agility stepped in to consolidate and manage inventory storage into one new warehouse known as the Mega Hub. It now handles 8,000 pallet positions, and all orders from the company’s retail and project clients are processed and dispatched through the Mega Hub. Agility provides online and real-time visibility with its proprietary Track and Trace system, which is integrated with the Warehouse Management System. This strategy has given the company’s sales team an effective tool to increase sales and provide a new level of customer satisfaction.

Using time-in-motion studies and Six Sigma D-M-A-I-C methodology, Agility’s contract logistics group identified a logjam in the warehouse receiving process for a global footwear and sports apparel company. Processing was being slowed down at the point where workers lifted items by hand from containers up onto pallets. Agility replaced old, labor-intensive equipment with expandable rollers. Items could be rolled directly from the containers onto the pallets, without being lifted by hand. This expedited the process of filling pallets, which had a big impact on operational efficiency. Productivity jumped by 60 percent, and the introduction of expandable rollers allowed employees to handle other tasks and reduced the need for more manpower, bringing down labor costs for the customer.

A multinational electronics manufacturing company suffered from millions of variances in its inventory records due to inconsistent processes and lack of inventory control. An Agility analytics team was able to observe, document, analyze and improve the inventory problems that had hounded the company for so long. Within a few months, the team successfully accounted for a majority of the “lost” inventory. Variances improved from 39 percent to 88 percent, or between 1.6 million to 31 million items. The team continued to make improvements through re-alignment and stricter control measures. The project’s success has led Agility’s inventory analysis team to new opportunities in contract logistics, VMI operations and international freight forwarding.