Use Cases

Integrated Manufacturing

Overview

  • Shipping and receiving – up to 500 truckloads per day
  • 3 sites in 2 states
  • Enterprise WMS and TMS integration
  • Snowflake business intelligence integration
  • WMS extension for dynamically tasked warehouse picking

Issues/Gaps/Challenges

  • Disorganized driver check-in with high dwell times and language difficulties
  • No ability to handle driver check-in exceptions or rejections
  • No automated workflow
  • Lack of visibility between TMS and WMS
  • No extension of WMS to warehouse or yard
  • No ability to capture valuable business intelligence data
  • No ability to dynamically task warehouse shipping and receiving tasks or yard operations
  • No ability to optimize scheduling or reschedule missed appointments

Renaissant Solution

  • Fully integrated into WMS, TMS and business intelligence platform
  • Real-time visibility to all shipping and receiving operations
  • Automated driver check- in with validation, exception handling, and language translation    
  • Dynamically tasked pick sheets delivered to forklift operators
  • Automated dispatch and rescheduling of missed appointments
  • Real-time business intelligence, workflow process mining and predictive analytics
  • Optimized appointment scheduling
  • 300 employees trained in one week

Results

  • Dwell time reduced by 44% in 2 months    
  • Reduction in dwell time volatility
  • 100% driver adoption
  • Faster and more consistent driver check in process
  • Pick sheet data delivered directly to forklift operators
  • Fully analytical visualization of shipping and receiving operations
  • Schedules optimized

Freight Forwarding & Drayage

Overview

  • Global freight forwarder with locations at major ports and intermodal locations
  • Hundreds of containers and trucks processed daily.
  • Import and export bonded warehouses

Issues/Gaps/Challenges

  • High driver dwell times and detention costs
  • Many drivers speaking foreign languages
  • High container dwell times and demurrage costs
  • Low chassis utilization rates
  • Poor communication between customer and drayage operators
  • Lack of accountability for drayage dispatch errors
  • No visibility to container arrivals at import and export terminals
  • Inability to track the prioritization and stacking of containers in designated spots
  • Challenge meeting regulatory requirements for hazardous materials

Renaissant Solution

  • Automated driver check in with full language translations
  • Automated drayage dispatch for containers and chassis
  • Full visibility to container and chassis inventory
  • Full data analytics for entire cycle from Landed > imported > shipped cycle
  • Full hazardous material auditing for dangerous cargoes    

Results

  • Reduced driver cycle time by 50%
  • Eliminated illegitimate demurrage charges
  • Dynamically tasked warehouse picking / staging operations
  • Foreign language translation for complicated import/export /customs documents
  • Full regulatory compliance for hazardous materials

3PL/4PL

IndustryStandard

Overview

  • Non-US based
  • Strict acceptance / rejection requirements with dynamic and complex exception handling
  • Highly regulated customer
  • Cross docking
  • Expiring product

Issues/Gaps/Challenges

  • Poor driver communication and excessive dwell time
  • No automated driver workflow to reject before human interaction
  • No consistent auditing of rejection reasons
  • Lack of auditable visibility
  • No receiving operation cycle time benchmarks

Renaissant Solution

  • Fully integrated to WMS / TMS scheduling
  • Automated validation of all driver arrivals
  • Alerting to driver rejections
  • Calculation and monitoring of all cycle time KPIs
  • Optimized receiving calendar
  • Auditability for every receiving operation down to the employee level

Results

  • Automated regulatory reporting
  • Easy auditing
  • Dwell time reduction
  • Faster inventory turn
  • Consistent automated verification communication for appointment
  • Seamless communication between security, drivers and warehouse staff

Food and Beverage

Overview

  • Multiple Suppliers
  • Central Production Facility with limited space
  • Multiple 3rd Party Cold Storage DCs
  • Many intercompany shipments between production and DCs

Issues/Gaps/Challenges

  • Lack of asset visibility between production and cold storage partner facilities 
  • No visibility of  inventory located on assets
  • Poor asset utilization
  • No benchmark for transfer cycle times
  • Less than optimal shipping and receiving storage space
  • No real data on shipping, receiving and transit operations

Renaissant Solution

  • Full accounting of all yard assets and associated loads/items at all times
  • Complete cycle times for all asset trips
  • Seamless driver check-in expedites shipping and receiving operations
  • Cold storage partner receives full visibility to delivery timing
  • Dashboard showing all KPI data points
  • Alerting to cross dock shipments that are out of parameter

Results

  • Cycle time between plant and DCs cut in half
  • Better coordination with supplier deliveries
  • Lower driver dwell times
  • More shipments
  • Higher inventory turnover
  • Greater asset utilization
  • Visibility to asset planning for coming quarters and years