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California Cartage Goes Live With Navis Yard at Distribution Center
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Navis, a Zebra Technologies company, announced that California Cartage
Company (Cal Cartage), a privately-held company based in Long Beach,
Calif., has gone live with Navis Yard at two of its new distribution
centers in Savannah, GA.
The implementation of Navis Yard has helped Cal Cartage streamline the
flow of goods for some of the world's largest retailers. This best of
breed yard management solution has given Cal Cartage greater control
over, and visibility into, its yard operations.
Navis Yard Management has brought Cal Cartage new DC real-time inbound
and outbound visibility, enabling Cal Cartage actionable information to
help make immediate decisions that have improved resource utilization.
In turn, this has reduced yard congestion, shortened turn times, and
ultimately provided better customer service.
"Navis Yard has helped us increase throughput and visibility while
speeding inventory to major retailers' distribution centers," said
Michael Ridgway, Operations Analyst with Cal Cartage. "This process
helps our retail customers get their inventory when they need it,
whether it's to support promotions or quickly replace out-of-stock
items."
Cal Cartage decided on Navis Yard based on strong endorsements by Navis
customers, as well as Navis' proven track record helping companies gain
enhanced efficiency, organization and accuracy. "Our decision to go
with Navis Yard had a lot to do with the visibility and real-time
information about what's going on in our yard. This kind of
transparency is becoming an industry standard," said Ridgway.
"Previously, everything was done on paper, and it was a much slower and
less reliable process. You need to know what's in the yard at any given
moment to satisfy your customer. This kind of accuracy, speed and
organization from Navis Yard has become expected and demanded."
Navis' solutions have also provided Cal Cartage greater reporting
efficiency and real-time inventory updates, enabling the company to
know at any given time what inventory it has, where it is, and where
drivers are as well as chart their performance. "All of our customers
enjoy the reporting we're now able to provide," said Ridgway. "The
accuracy in information and reporting we're able to share with our
customers is crucial to show our performance. It's what our customers
expect and rely on to measure how well we are doing. The Navis system
has changed the way we serve our customers."
"Navis Yard has increased the efficiency of Cal Cartage and the major
retail clients they serve," said Michael Dempsey, Vice President of
Market Development at Navis. "Our software has exceeded service level
goals at Cal Cartage by leveraging real-time inbound and outbound
visibility. That means no more priority containers with unknown
contents sitting in the yard. Our partnership has streamlined the flow
of goods from Cal Cartage to their retail customers. And we have helped
Cal Cartage lower its operational costs by increasing the efficiency
and transparency of their new distribution centers."
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((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
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