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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, April 13, 2010 -- Management
Dynamics, a leading provider of
Global Trade Management
solutions, today announced that
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:
ANF), a specialty retailer of
casual apparel for men, women,
and kids, implemented its
Supply Chain Visibility
solution to provide real-time
visibility into the status of
orders, shipments and in-transit
inventory. The global, multimode
visibility solution will allow
its logistics team to streamline
its supply chain process from
vendor to distribution center
and collaborate with merchants
and service providers to reduce
costs, shipment delays and
improve customer service.
Abercrombie & Fitch selected
Management Dynamics for its
industry experience in
delivering supply chain
visibility solutions as well as
its advanced data quality
management capabilities. With 30
trading partners and multiple
international business units,
Abercrombie & Fitch's logistics
team needed a single, detailed
level view of shipments and
orders in-transit to track,
manage exceptions, proactively
pinpoint in-transit delays and
respond to any potential
logistics crisis. Integrating
with its Oracle Retail
Merchandising System, Management
Dynamics'
Supply Chain Visibility
solution allows merchants to
monitor the delivery status of
key orders and for the logistics
team to proactively manage
inbound shipments by milestones.
And, with accurate shipment
information earlier in the
supply chain, Abercrombie &
Fitch is able to improve
store-level inventory
allocations to reduce cycle time
and achieve higher levels of
availability.
"We needed to create reliability
in our global supply chain with
the ability respond to actual
and potential issues and tightly
collaborate with our merchants,
distribution centers and service
providers," said Lois Davis,
Vice President Global Trade &
Transportation, Abercrombie &
Fitch. "We chose Management
Dynamics for their supply chain
experience, ability to ensure
data quality and problem
resolution focused approach.
Their hosted solution saves
valuable time and effort,
provides meaningful cost
reductions, optimizes our
shipping options, and improves
our customer service."
Management Dynamics'
Supply Chain Visibility
solution supports the key
requirements of the logistics
operations at Abercrombie &
Fitch including:
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One central location for
tracking critical shipment
information across multiple
sources, providing
visibility to inventory
in-transit and speeding the
flow of goods from
distribution to merchants |
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Advance notice of
shipment information to
improve cross-border
logistics decisions |
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Proprietary Data Quality
Management (DQM)
technologies and business
methodologies to ensure
best-in-class information
accuracy, completeness and
timeliness for all messages
exchanged between trading
partners |
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Event alerting
capabilities that anticipate
potential inventory receipt
and fulfillment issues and
prompt rapid resolution
before they impact
availability |
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Robust functionality for measuring, analyzing and improving the
performance of suppliers,
carriers and service
providers with user-defined
reports, scorecards and KPIs
based on frontline data |
"In high fashion
with ever-changing seasons and
consumer tastes by region, it is
critical for specialty retailers
to tightly manage the inbound
supply chain from vendor to
distribution center and
ultimately to improve
store-level fulfillment
metrics," said Jim Preuninger,
CEO of Management Dynamics.
"Abercrombie & Fitch understands
the importance of building a
strong infrastructure to support
collaborative logistics
processes and selected our
Supply Chain Visibility
solution based on a track record
of delivery in this area. We
look forward to helping this
leading apparel retailer to
establish transparency across
its global supply chain and
realize their operational
objectives."
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