Supply Chain Optimization
Challenge: This leading brand needed FST Logistics to assist with streamlining processes and optimizing customer labeling.
Partner: Nutrition Bar Company
- American manufacturer organic energy foods and drinks
- Fortune 500 owned
Impact
- Cost reduction of nearly $135,000
- Increased supply chain efficiency
- In 2022, the nutrition bar company and FST embarked on a strategic initiative to optimize customer labeling
- This allocated significant resources to streamline the process
- The FST and nutrition bar teams, collaborated closely to enhance the handling of accounts requiring labels, ensuring prompt and cost-effective order processing
- The team initially focused on transitioning Walmart orders to pallet labels, a move aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs
- By July 2023, this transition extended to Amazon order
- By handling the orders and optimizing the labeling process, FST contributed to a smoother workflow, resulting in a more satisfied customer.
- There was a notable cost reduction of nearly $135,000 annually
Customer Testimonial
“At FST it does not feel like a transactional relationship, you really work together to find better opportunities and to put best practices in place for the betterment of our individual brand.”
~ Nutrition Bar Company
Logistics Services Provided
Overview
In 2022, FST Logistics collaborated with a Fortune 500-owned nutrition bar company to optimize its customer labeling process, dedicating a cross-functional team of supply chain experts to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Together, the teams identified opportunities to streamline labeling workflows while ensuring customer orders continued to be processed accurately and on time.
To eliminate the time and expense associated with individual case labeling, FST transitioned Walmart orders to pallet labeling and later expanded the process to Amazon orders.
The initiative delivered an estimated annual cost savings of nearly $135,000, driven primarily by improvements to Amazon order handling. This partnership positioned the customer for sustained cost savings, improved service, and continued supply chain success.
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