Use Cases
Steel Manufacturer

Overview
- 250 – 500 full truckloads / day
- Shipping and receiving operations
- Enterprise scale WMS and TMS integration
- 3 sites 2 states
- Business intelligence Snowflake integration
- Extended WMS to dynamically tasked warehouse picking
Issues/Gaps/Challenges
- Disorganized Driver Check-in
- No automated workflow
- Manual processes
- High driver dwell times
- Driver Foreign Language
- Lack of data integration and visibility between TMS and WMS
- No ability to capture valuable business intelligence data
- WMS could not extend into the warehouse or out to the yard
- No ability to dynamically task warehouse shipping and receiving tasks
- No ability to dynamically task yard operations
- No ability to optimize scheduling
- No ability to automatically handle driver check in exceptions / rejections
- No ability to automatically 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 translated into 160 languages
- 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 people trained in one week
Results
- Dwell Time Reduced by 44% in 2 months – saved over 200 driver hours of service per day
- 100% driver adoption
- Faster/consistent, repeatable driver check in process
- Reduction in dwell time volatility
- Pick sheet data delivered directly to forklift operators
- Evolved to WMS front end
- Fully analytical visualization of shipping and receiving operations
- Schedules optimized
3PL/4PL

Overview
- Non-US based
- High validation requirements
- Highly regulated customer
- Cross docking
- Expiring product
Issues/Gaps/Challenges
- Excessive dwell time
- Poor driver comms at check in
- Require auditable visibility
- No receiving operation cycle time benchmarks
- No automated driver workflow to reject before human interaction
- No consistent auditing of rejection reasons
Renaissant Solution
- Fully integrated to WMS / TMS scheduling
- Automated validation of all driver arrivals
- Alerting to driver rejectins
- 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 DC
- Many intercompany shipments between production and DC
Issues/Gaps/Challenges
- Lack of asset visibility between production and cold storage partner facilities
- No visibility to inventory located on assets
- No benchmark for transfer cycle times
- Less than optimal shipping and receiving storage space
- Poor asset utilization
- 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 DC 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
Freight Forwarder & Drayage

Overview
- Less Than Container (LCL) import and export for global freight forwarder at International Ports
- Hundreds of containers and trucks process daily.
- Import and Export bonded warehouses
Issues/Gaps/Challenges
- High driver dwell times
- Many drivers speaking foreign languages
- High container dwell times – high demurrage costs
- Low chassis utilization rates
- Poor communication between customer and drayage operators
- Lack of accountability for drayage dispatch errors
- High driver detention costs
- 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 around moving 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
- Process mined data for full analytics around entire cycle from Landed > imported > shipped cycle
- Full hazmat auditing for dangerous cargoes (40% of vanguard’s biz is categorized as hazmat)
Results
- Reduced driver cycle time by 50%
- Eliminated illegitimate demurrage charges
- Dynamically tasked warehouse picking / staging operations
- Translated driver communications making it easier to receive complicated import/export /customs documents
- Full regulatory compliance with hazmat regs