Compliance Networks' Solution
The retailer had successfully deployed Compliance Networks rCMS Revolution for its vendor performance optimization needs for several years. While the solution was used to improve vendor performance, it had not been used to quantify the overall length of the supply chain and where the opportunities lay to reduce that length.
The VP of supply chain stated, "We saw an opportunity to compress the ship windows. These ship windows were created years ago, particularly the vendor lead times and were never challenged." Armed with information from the Purchase Order LifeCycle module from rCMS, the retailer analyzed its vendors' shipping patterns and concluded the lead times were unnecessarily long. The retailer brought together its inventory planning and merchant teams to see where opportunities could be found with its replenishment merchandise.