Freightliner Case Study
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Customer: Like many modern manufacturers, Freightliner faces constant pressure to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its resource handling in order to better control manufacturing costs. The Freightliner management team was looking for a way to streamline the tracking of parts movement from inventory to the factory floor in the Portland plant.

The team sought a solution that was:

  • Automated, to reduce the labor costs associated with inventory handling and tracking, from picking through delivery
  • Accurate and efficient, to help eliminate expensive delays that misdirected and erroneous parts handling could cause on the production line
  • Integrated with existing asset management databases, in order to further streamline inventory replenishment and resource management
  • Scalable, to enable enterprise-wide extension. Once the solution had been proven in Portland, Freightliner hoped to upgrade inventory control processes throughout its North American manufacturing and parts distribution centers.

Solution:  Freightliner has deployed a complete parts tracking solution that delivers the needed efficiency, accuracy and ability to trim labor costs.  Freightliner has already recognized that the solution installed at their Portland plant has had a direct return on investment. Labor costs associated with inventory control are down significantly, as are inventory pick errors and mis-ships, and production lines receive timely and correct parts.

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