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Founded in 2001, Game Room Guys is a Michigan-based family business that helps consumers create entertainment spaces in their own homes with hundreds of fun offerings, including pinball machines, arcade games, pool tables, furniture, and other supplies. Over the years, the business has seen steady growth, expanding from just a few employees to 25 and from several hundred orders per month to over 5,000 shipments to locations across the United States. To capitalize on business growth, Game Room Guys automated order fulfillment from order creation through to parcel shipping and delivery tracking using Descartes ShipRush combined with the NetSuite enterprise resource planning system.
With a comprehensive portfolio of architecture, furniture and technology products and services, Steelcase Inc. has helped create great experiences for the world’s leading organizations for more than 105 years. Steelcase is globally accessible through a network of channels, including over 800 Steelcase dealer locations.
To better prepare U.S. exporters to succeed in international markets, the U.S. Commercial Service (CS) is using the Descartes Datamyne™ global trade data solution to produce in-depth market research.
Sailrite is a “sew-it-yourself” omnichannel retailer with over 6,000 products to support sewing needs in a wide variety of diverse niches, from sail-making and canvas work for boats to home décor and upholstery to outdoor living. Learn how Sailrite grew by over 250% by replacing inefficient and error-prone paper-based warehouse practices with Descartes OzLink Mobile. Integrated with NetSuite, the Descartes solution automated order fulfillment for Sailrite’s complicated group of products, allowing the company to pick the same volume of orders with half as many people. Greater speed and accuracy in order fulfillment has also translated into a better customer experience, even when Sailrite is shipping 800+ packages per day during its peak periods.
Established in 1999, Aceitera el Real processes and distributes vegetable oils, fats and their derivatives, such as soybean oil, palm-oil-based butter, soap and foods for animal consumption. The company supplies customers domestically and in the United States, Europe, China, and South America from its base in Managua, Nicaragua.
Since its inception in 1998, K&H Manufacturing has been the leading manufacturer of heated products for dogs, cats, wild and exotic birds and ponds in North America. The company also produces innovative cooling products for a variety of pets, and supplies its full product line to top pet retailers in the U.S. and Canada. Using Descartes OzLink™ for Acumatica warehouse automation and connectivity, K&H has streamlined order fulfillment to better manage higher order volumes, dramatically improve order accuracy, and reduce the costs—in time and labor—associated with manual order processing.
Solaray LLC has been America’s sunglass company for more than 40 years. Headquartered in Sapulpa, OK, Solaray offers high-quality eyewear, wireless accessories, lighters, promotional products, and gift and apparel items. The company supplies more than 25,000 retail locations through its Direct Store Delivery program.
With global trade regulations on the rise, effective management of item classification and trade-related data can be challenging. Shippers, manufacturers, retailers and compliance professionals must maintain vast amounts of classification information. Leading businesses have discovered a better way to work with Descartes CustomsInfo™ Manager, a powerful, web-based, item classification and data management workbench. Descartes CustomsInfo Manager can easily build detailed trade databases and coordinate complex item classification.
US Foods is one of America’s leading foodservice distributors for restaurants, healthcare and hospitality facilities, government operations and educational institutions. Based in Rosemont, IL, the company offers more than 350,000 national brand products and high-quality private-label items ranging from meats to produce to frozen foods. Descartes Perform™ for Food was implemented to help reduce, and in some cases eliminate, paper and paper-basedorder management processes.
Wizard Distribution is a product manufacturing and distribution company that serves various niche markets providing products to consumers and retailers in the U.S., Canada, Australia and more. Wizard Distribution is operated by Wizard Industries, Inc., manufacturer of the Wizard brand of metal detection tools, surgical instrument detection wands, 4x4 Post Supports, PillowStay, bifocal safety glasses, disaster restraint products, specialty tools and health and wellness products.
Adrian Gonzalez with Talking Logistics discusses Descartes’ new capacity visibility capabilities with Dan Cicerchi, VP Descartes MacroPoint. The new Descartes MacroPoint™ tool will let freight brokers know as far as three days in advance which trucks will be available to move their customers' loads.
As McCombs Supply Co. grew from a small TV repair business in 1953 to a thriving online replacement repair parts business, increasing order volumes were causing a shipping bottleneck and hindering growth. The company replaced its inefficient and time-consuming manual shipping practices with the Descartes ShipRush solution. By streamlining and automating order processing, McCombs was able to dramatically increase productivity, improve customer service, and successfully expand.
U.S. distributor of food service equipment, Edward Don & Company, streamlines their delivery operations with Descartes’ cloud-based route planning and execution solutions, enhancing customer service and realizing substantial bottom line benefits.
Talking Logistics interviews Chris Jones on the history of pool distribution, its evolution for specialty retailers as a store replenishment strategy, and why it is more relevant than ever to much of the retail market and in other distribution-oriented industries.
Supply chain executives at Sears explain how the company transitioned its nationwide home delivery business with Descartes’ route planning and mobile software solutions.
Billy Carmen, owner of Michigan-based Wizard Distribution, uses Descartes ShipRush™ to streamline the fulfillment of ecommerce orders by integrating with the company’s online storefronts in the U.S. and more than 25 international distributors.
Over the past 18 months Descartes MacroPoint has added major features and tools that are improving our customers’ operations. We wanted to take the opportunity to ensure customers were aware of these updates and addressed questions from attendees.
Learn how SwervePoint, an expert in retail merchandising for Fortune 500 companies, has modernized its global ecommerce order fulfillment processes for enhanced customer service, reduced costs and greater operating efficiencies. Senior management at SwervePoint explain how Descartes OzLink™ for Acumatica is streamlining warehouse operations and automating shipping processes for over 50 business-to-business ecommerce fulfillment programs thanks to seamless integration with external ecommerce applications and with the Acumatica platform.
What if you could give your customers the ideal home delivery experience and do so without increasing your costs? Break through the noise about same-day, next-day, time windows, value-added services at the point of sale, and more. Download this web seminar to learn how leading retailers are leveraging technology to transform logistics from a cost center to a profit center.
