Colony Brands Gains Flexibility and Cost Savings with e2open
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- e2open Global Parcel
Tech Stack
- API
- DIM (dimensional weight)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
- Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Warehouse Automation
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
In 1926, Colony Brands began by directly selling and shipping cheese by mail. In addition to cheese, the Monroe, Wisconsin, based company developed brands that sell various items such as clothing, appliances, jewelry, furniture, and other general merchandise. As the first distributor of specialty food gifts by mail, Colony Brands is proud to have expanded to the West Coast.
The Challenge
With over 1.5 million shipments in an eight-week long shipping peak, Colony Brands needed a solution to manage its throughput and carrier compliance along with customized labeling, and to streamline its shipping of approximately 80 percent of annual volume during the holiday peak.
The Solution
E2open Global Parcel is an enterprise-class, multi-carrier shipping management system that supports complex, high-volume, multi-locational, international and domestic shipping. It is designed to support black box or attended ship stations in complex distribution environments. With Global Parcel, Colony Brands has realized cost savings by reducing outbound carrier shipping costs, using DIM (dimensional weight) correctly with new rates, and by moving to and using rate shopping. Global Parcel’s flexibility affords Colony Brands the ability to move the product to the cloud, leave it in an internal data center, or have a hybrid solution. Global Parcel is easily connected with Colony Brands’ other systems using API (application programming interface) calls.
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