Solutions Overview

Orchestrating Goods Movement Through the Supply Network

Manufacturers and distributors are under intense pressure to cut costs and reduce inventory while simultaneously responding to new customer demands. Increased reliance on trading partners such as contract manufacturers, 3PLs and component suppliers adds additional complexity to the challenge of managing supply chain networks.

TAKE Supply Chain solutions improve the speed, visibility and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains, providing significant economic value to our customer base of over 450 leading companies.

Solution Areas

Problems Addressed

Excessive labor costs
Shortages and missed deliveries
Expediting costs
Inability to track and trace materials
Quality problems
Compliance (regulatory, environmental, customer)
Poor revenue visibility
Inability to respond to changing markets

Causes

Lack of control over outsourced operations
Manual processes
Disparate information systems
Data accuracy
Shortage of IT resources

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Solutions from TAKE Supply Chain enable manufacturers and distributors to orchestrate the movement of goods through the extended supply network. Our single data model approach complements existing enterprise applications such as Oracle® and SAP® to eliminate inefficiencies in supply chain, warehousing, data collection and reverse logistics.

"[TAKE Supply Chain] has helped us approach our supply chain partnerships more strategically. We have more flexibility to forge new alliances and we’re able to help our partners be more efficient because of the capabilities we now offer. What’s more, as Petmate’s product line continues expanding in response to increasing demand, we now have the infrastructure to easily build relationships with new contract manufacturers."

— Jeff Black, Vice President of Distribution, Petmate