Inventory management innovation cuts costs

With customers in widespread locations, many with a regional or national presence, Master Builders, a US manufacturer of chemical admixtures for concrete, shipped numerous small orders at infrequent intervals to widely dispersed sites. This resulted high shipping costs for customers and often required emergency shipments when customers failed to anticipate their requirements accurately. To benefit both parties the company set up customers with storage tanks with wireless sensors which relayed in...

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5.5.2 Manage inventories
5.4.2 Deliver products to customers