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

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