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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 5:15:00 PM   | Abstract: | Sargento Foods adds Sterling Commerce on-demand transportation management software to streamline delivery and order management activities -- internally and with third-party carriers. |
| Keywords: | TMS, Transportation Management Software, EDI, Electronic Document Exchange, SCM, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Execution, SCE, on-demand software |
While shoppers might enjoy the tremendous variety of cheese in their supermarket's dairy case, they probably give little thought to how these products get there -- to the right place, in the right quantities, at the right time. To make it happen, somebody has to rationalize these daunting logistics, and for Sargento Foods, that person is Keith Hartlaub, general manager of Sargento Transportation LLC, located in Plymouth, WI. The company's parent, Sargento Foods Inc., produces packaged cheese for distribution to stores, restaurants, and other food manufacturers throughout the country. The privately held company is the second-largest producer of natural cheese sold in the U.S., with net sales exceeding $500 million annually. Hartlaub and his team recently implemented Sterling Commerce's Transportation Management module, a component of the vendor's supply chain software suite. Sargento Transportation had found that its previous transportation management system (TMS) was falling short on functionality, and selected the Sterling software earlier this year to address the company's needs for incoming order management and optimizing individual truckloads of outgoing product, as well as for the software's reporting and financial tracking capabilities specifically, says Hartlaub. The company ships approximately 160 truckloads of cheese products per week, normally to 38 states. [Click to continue] |