Coolearth believes that customer satisfaction is a top priority. Coolearth's team of highly skilled professionals work with their customers to deliver value. Coolearth exceeds customer demands by implementing solutions on time and on budget. This approach has helped us build a solid customer base of industry leaders.
Our case studies give you a glimpse of our Supply Chain Execution solutions in action. We focus on a diverse spectrum of organizations, spanning different industries, company size and situations. You may find similarities between your business and the ones featured in our case studies. Discover how Coolearth solutions can help you maximize value and minimize costs for your organization.
By delivering powerful, easy-to-use solutions, we have quickly emerged as a committed and recognized leader. Some of our showcase customers include:
Safeway Inc.
Safeway, a $34 billion food & drug retailer, operates an extensive network of 38 manufacturing and food processing facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Various products include milk, ice cream, fruits & vegetables, breads, dry goods, meats, cheeses, soft drinks, and pet foods. Safeway selected Coolearth's Supply Chain execution solution for its supply operations based on Coolearth's extensive industry expertise and Whistle's seamless integration with their ERP system. Whistle is live in seven facilities and is being rolled out to the remainder through 2003.
Whistle's unparalleled ERP integration benefits Safeway by enabling real-time ERP visibility into all plant and warehouse activities, including inventory movement, shipping, receiving, production, and cycle counting. The real-time data collection has reduced paperwork and dramatically improved Safeway's planning process by eliminating excessive safety stocks and inventory shortages. Whistle's directed picking and putaway rules have also optimized warehouse space and stopped product loss from expiration.
Lopez Foods Inc.
Lopez Foods, a $340 million meat producer, is a leading supplier of beef and pork patties to McDonald's and Wal-Mart. Lopez operates two highly sophisticated meat processing centers in Oklahoma and Nebraska. In addition to its seamless ERP integration, Lopez selected Coolearth's leading Supply Chain Execution solution for its incredible ease-of-use on both hand-held and vehicle-mounted barcode scanners. Coolearth's software, Whistle, runs live at plants in Oklahoma and Nebraska, where it is used to produce and ship over one million pounds of beef daily.
Whistle benefits Lopez by eliminating manual paper-driven processes and increasing productivity. Whistle also enforces industry best practices, including extensive lot tracking that minimizes the impact of potential recalls. Whistle's ability to switch between languages has greatly reduced training time at Lopez, where 80% of material handlers speak Spanish. The Whistle Inline Catch Weight module scans, weighs, and labels a new case of meat every second, reporting all production directly to their ERP system.
National Frozen Foods Corp.
National Frozen Foods, a $115 million frozen vegetable processor, is a leading producer of peas, carrots, corn, and beans to such leading distributors as Wal-Mart and Sysco. National operates three facilities in Washington and Oregon where vegetables are fresh-packed, quickly frozen, and packaged. National chose Coolearth's leading Supply Chain Execution solution for its ease of implementation and seamless integration with their ERP shipping. Whistle is live in major sections of two plants, with the remainder coming online through 2002.
Faced with increasing order volumes and customer pressures, National depends on Coolearth's software, Whistle™ capabilities helped to improve customer service levels. Whistle's directed picking, loading, and shipping cut truck loading times in half from 90 to 45 minutes, completely eliminated order fulfillment inaccuracies, and shaved over a day from National's order-to-cash cycle. Whistle's production execution layer enables National to grade vegetables and report production in real time, while its directed putaway optimizes cold storage-an especially important concern for seasonal products that may spend months in the freezer.
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Ed Miniat Inc.
Ed Miniat is a $128 million producer of cooked meats and edible oils for leading food suppliers and restaurants nationwide. Miniat operates two facilities in the Chicago area. Whistle™ runs live in the main facility, where meats are processed, cooked, and packaged. Miniat selected Coolearth's leading Supply Chain Execution solution for its real-time data collection, seamless integration to their ERP system, and automated catch weight functionality.
Solutions from Coolearth benefit Miniat by streamlining highly complex business processes. During receiving, Whistle collects variable weights of individual raw meat containers, putting this data into their ERP system. Whistle allows Miniat to directly scan UCC128 labels, dramatically reducing data entry. Formerly burdened by 12 to 24 hour information latency times, Miniat now enjoys real-time visibility of all inbound, outbound, and manufacturing-related activities. Whistle's effortless catch weighting allows Miniat to conduct a high volume of complex sublot transactions that proved too difficult to manage in their ERP system.
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