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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Fleet Management Supply Chain Visibility
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. Read More
About 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. Read More
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. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Supply Chain Visibility

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 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.

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.

Impact #1	Achieved $8 million in freight savings in the first year of implementation.
Impact #2	Continued realizing incremental savings of $12 million to $14 million each year.
Impact #3	Saved the planning team an aggregate of 35 hours per day.

Impact #1

Achieved $8 million in freight savings in the first year of implementation.

Impact #2

Continued realizing incremental savings of $12 million to $14 million each year.

Impact #3

Saved the planning team an aggregate of 35 hours per day.

Benefit #1	Realized a full payback on the JDA investment within one year.
Benefit #2	Automatically processed close to 80 percent of daily transportation loads using JDA solutions.
Benefit #3	Reduced end-of-day close-out process from 60-90 minutes to less than 30 minutes.

Benefit #1

Realized a full payback on the JDA investment within one year.

Benefit #2

Automatically processed close to 80 percent of daily transportation loads using JDA solutions.

Benefit #3

Reduced end-of-day close-out process from 60-90 minutes to less than 30 minutes.

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