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Driving Innovation
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
- Supply Chain Visibility
The Challenge
Kimberly-Clark, a global leader in the consumer products industry, was seeking ways to improve its transportation management process with the aim of reducing overall freight costs, improving service, and gaining efficiency. The company challenged its business support groups, including transportation, to drive additional savings across the organization. The transportation executives at Kimberly-Clark considered a number of software vendors to solve these challenges before ultimately choosing JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment™ solutions. The company was looking for a solution that could provide the best optimization capabilities to drive the type of freight savings needed in the transportation organization at Kimberly-Clark.
About The Customer
Kimberly-Clark is a global leader in the consumer products industry with a 140-year history of providing high-quality family and personal care products. The company has maintained this long history of leadership through continuous improvement and innovation. It has a centralized planning staff for its North American operations that manages approximately 2,500 shipments, originating from 40 separate locations, on a daily basis. The company is committed to driving additional savings across the organization and continuously improving its transportation management process.
The Solution
Kimberly-Clark implemented JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment™ solutions, including JDA® Transportation Manager, JDA® Transportation Modeler, JDA® Transportation Planner, and JDA® Enterprise Architecture. The company quickly achieved a significant return on its investment, saving an incremental $12 million to $14 million a year in freight charges, including $8 million in the first year of implementation. The company’s centralized planning staff for its North American operations uses the Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage approximately 2,500 shipments, originating from 40 separate locations, on a daily basis. Recently, Kimberly-Clark embarked on a lean initiative to extract even more value from JDA’s TMS. The company configured JDA’s enterprise architecture to incorporate a hierarchy of rules that are specific to Kimberly-Clark. These rules dictate which loads can be automatically processed, eliminating much of the manual work of reviewing and approving daily transportation loads.
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