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	Colony Brands Gains Flexibility and Cost Savings with e2open

Colony Brands Gains Flexibility and Cost Savings with e2open

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Retail
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Fleet Management Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility Warehouse Automation
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	With over 1.5 million shipments in an eight-week long shipping peak, Colony Brands needed a solution to manage its throughput and carrier compliance along with customized labeling, and to streamline its shipping of approximately 80 percent of annual volume during the holiday peak. Read More
About Customer	In 1926, Colony Brands began by directly selling and shipping cheese by mail. In addition to cheese, the Monroe, Wisconsin, based company developed brands that sell various items such as clothing, appliances, jewelry, furniture, and other general merchandise. As the first distributor of specialty food gifts by mail, Colony Brands is proud to have expanded to the West Coast. Read More
Solution	E2open Global Parcel is an enterprise-class, multi-carrier shipping management system that supports complex, high-volume, multi-locational, international and domestic shipping. It is designed to support black box or attended ship stations in complex distribution environments. With Global Parcel, Colony Brands has realized cost savings by reducing outbound carrier shipping costs, using DIM (dimensional weight) correctly with new rates, and by moving to and using rate shopping. Global Parcel’s flexibility affords Colony Brands the ability to move the product to the cloud, leave it in an internal data center, or have a hybrid solution. Global Parcel is easily connected with Colony Brands’ other systems using API (application programming interface) calls. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Retail

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Warehouse Automation

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

With over 1.5 million shipments in an eight-week long shipping peak, Colony Brands needed a solution to manage its throughput and carrier compliance along with customized labeling, and to streamline its shipping of approximately 80 percent of annual volume during the holiday peak.

About Customer

In 1926, Colony Brands began by directly selling and shipping cheese by mail. In addition to cheese, the Monroe, Wisconsin, based company developed brands that sell various items such as clothing, appliances, jewelry, furniture, and other general merchandise. As the first distributor of specialty food gifts by mail, Colony Brands is proud to have expanded to the West Coast.

Solution

E2open Global Parcel is an enterprise-class, multi-carrier shipping management system that supports complex, high-volume, multi-locational, international and domestic shipping. It is designed to support black box or attended ship stations in complex distribution environments. With Global Parcel, Colony Brands has realized cost savings by reducing outbound carrier shipping costs, using DIM (dimensional weight) correctly with new rates, and by moving to and using rate shopping. Global Parcel’s flexibility affords Colony Brands the ability to move the product to the cloud, leave it in an internal data center, or have a hybrid solution. Global Parcel is easily connected with Colony Brands’ other systems using API (application programming interface) calls.

Impact #1	With e2open’s Global Parcel solution, Colony Brands has automated and tailored its labeling and shipping processes to fit business needs, managing its peak more efficiently while realizing cost savings.
Impact #2	Global Parcel has made Colony Brands’ shipping peak time more efficient, and the company has reduced time to ship by 25 percent.
Impact #3	Colony Brands projects more shipments, orders, and customers in the future, and the flexibility of e2open’s Global Parcel allows them to meet the needs of customers without breaking the bank in hardware costs.

Impact #1

With e2open’s Global Parcel solution, Colony Brands has automated and tailored its labeling and shipping processes to fit business needs, managing its peak more efficiently while realizing cost savings.

Impact #2

Global Parcel has made Colony Brands’ shipping peak time more efficient, and the company has reduced time to ship by 25 percent.

Impact #3

Colony Brands projects more shipments, orders, and customers in the future, and the flexibility of e2open’s Global Parcel allows them to meet the needs of customers without breaking the bank in hardware costs.

Benefit #1	Reduced time to ship by 25%

Benefit #1

Reduced time to ship by 25%

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Colony Brands Gains Flexibility and Cost Savings with e2open

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