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When Roosevelt Paper Company needed to improve the speed and accuracy with which orders are manufactured, reviewed and shipped to customers, the company focused on optimizing the full breadth of its internal business processes to increase visibility and realize better overall plant efficiency. The result: A fully paperless supply chain execution system that coordinates workflows across the organization, leading to greater plant throughput.

This paint and inks division serves the highly demanding automotive industry. In this competitive market, there is no room for error when it comes to product shipments. Materials are typically ordered “just in time,” so any delay or errors can stop auto plant production cold. To ensure precise, correct shipments, the firm needed to optimize warehouse processing, eliminating picking errors and improving data collection accuracy. This also extended to product labeling. Each automotive client has strict guidelines for how each product must be labeled, and each auto company handles this in a different manner. To meet each unique customer need, the company needed a way to create automated labels for each customer specification.

Estimates on counterfeit trade exceed two hundred billion dollars (US). And inspections across the world cost billions, yet only a very few shipments are actually inspected. This issue has particularly impacted the vital Life Sciences Supply Chain. This article discusses some solutions that are at hand to reduce illicit trade and ensure a safe and secure supply of pharmaceuticals.