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| Company Overview |
| DCB delivers strategy, process improvement, and technology solutions that optimize the supply chain for
retail, consumer goods, and logistics provider companies. |
| Founded in 1988, DCB has established itself as a leader in transforming distribution channels to lean value
chains for over 350 companies worldwide. DCB works with customers to optimize through-put, logistics
costs, and customer responsiveness to maximize margin and improve growth. Our solutions for achieving
results range from network design recommendations to de-consolidate distribution points to implementations
of warehouse management systems and controls to rationalizing channel costs to provide true handling
costs for all product categories. |
| DCB’s customers operate some of the most sophisticated supply chains in their industry enabled by
integrated demand planning, transportation management, warehouse management, labor management,
voice, MHE, and business intelligence technologies. Their supply chain models range from single
distribution point, single channel, make-to-stock configurations to multi-DC, multi-channel, make-to-order,
pull configurations. |
| DCB’s is the supply chain consulting division of Idhasoft, Inc, a full service business solutions firm. DCB has
80 employees dedicated to delivering supply chain solutions. The U.S. headquarters is located in Atlanta,
Georgia with office locations in Denver, Colorado and Redwood City, California. |
| The Solutions |
| Distribution Focus are solutions that deliver improvements to 4 wall distribution center process, layout,
material handling, labor, and systems. They address operating challenges including appointment scheduling
and yard management, receipt processing, multi-order picking, multi-channel fulfillment, labor planning and
balancing, and continuous performance improvement. |
| Transportation Focus are solutions that deliver improvements to ground, water, and air shipments across the
complete supply chain. Depending on the transportation challenge, solutions are geared towards planning,
execution, or visibility and monitoring. They address challenges including limited collaboration between
shippers and suppliers, order/load consolidation, changing relative costs between modes, capacity
imbalances, global in-transit visibility, manual freight audit/payment processing, and increasing regulation. |
| Store & Customer Focus are solutions that deliver optimization of in-stock merchandise and sales personnel
for stores as well as reduced markdowns and inventory carrying costs. They address merchandising
challenges including inadequate sales plan and fulfillment synchronization across channels; department level
forecasts not reconciled to SKU level projections; pricing and promotion volume models not incorporated into
replenishment methodology; and poorly matched space and assortment plans. |
| Procurement & Sourcing Focus are solutions that deliver improvements in service level and quality of
product purchased as well as the efficiency of the purchasing function. They address planning and execution
challenges including existing contractual obligations, variable supplier historical performance, increasing
transportation costs, taxes and tariffs, phone/fax/e-mail communication, and multi-location, many item, multiperiod
purchasing bid analysis. |
| Supply Chain Strategy Focus are solutions that deliver recommendations and plans on how the supply chain
should be constructed support the overall business strategy. Strategies are tailored to specific industries and
business goals. Strategy solutions ensure the company’s product, pricing, and growth initiatives are well
supported by and aligned to its network design and its planning, forecasting, and operating processes. |
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