RedPrairie Integrated Warehouse: Fleet Solution Provides Seamless Delivery And Returns Process For Distributors

RedPrairie Corporation, one of the leading consumer driven optimization company, announced recently the integration of its recently acquired Fleet Management solution with its Warehouse Management suite, enabling distributors and other companies with dedicated fleets to seamlessly flow products from the shipping dock directly to their customers. It also efficiently processes returns, non-deliverables – especially critical in home delivery operations – and the disposition of reusable assets such as shipping containers, racks and totes.

Local distributors and retailers operating home delivery fleets have a different distribution model than manufacturers or other retailers. They have to synchronize their pick sequencing, packaging and staging with their fleet routing to ensure maximum efficiency and accuracy throughout the process. They also need to dynamically deal with last minute changes such as when a customer isn't home, refuses an item, or returns a previous order.

Comments Tom Kozenski, RedPrairie vice president product strategy, "In the past, distributors used manual procedures or "siloed" systems to manage distribution and fleet operations. This caused disconnects that were inherently inefficient and could lead to customer service problems. Our new integrated approach provides the process workflows and visibility to make distribution, fleet routing and execution, and returns processing one seamless loop. Not only are the distribution and fleet functions more efficient, the integration of the two makes the whole more valuable than the sum of the parts, putting real savings into the distributors' pockets."

The integrated solution can create both static routes based on local delivery schedules and dynamic routes based on each day's orders, with the ability to adapt those routes as events occur. The route / stop plan created is used by the Warehouse Management application to drive order processing, thus optimizing the distribution and fleet processes as well as the interaction between the two.

About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer driven optimization company. Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 10 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to over 25,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies.

RedPrairie's E²e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the "last yard" problem of the retail supply chain.

With 20 global service sites and standard service methods that have been validated over the last 30 years, RedPrairie provides unparalleled service and support. For additional information, call 1.877.733.7724, or access www.RedPrairie.com.

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