Kele, Inc. Optimized Stocked Products With Blue Ridge

Located in Memphis, TN, Kele Inc. has been a worldwide distributor of over 300 Building Automation and HVAC/R manufacturers for over 30 years. Kele also manufactures the Precon and Kele brands of products. Kele offers unique delivery options including shipment scheduling, additional instructions for installation and a UL-Listed panel shop on site.

By utilizing Blue Ridge Forecast, Kele has been able to position and price inventory smarter. Blue Ridge’s cloud-native supply chain solutions combine intelligent science with robust automation and price optimization, empowering distributors to react to complex change with untapped precision and efficiency. Distributors and retailers use Blue Ridge to proactively understand the financial impact of each purchasing decision before they make it – bringing more certainty, more speed and more assurance to the value chain. Leveraging powerful data sets, machine learning-driven recommendations, and even pricing simulations, Blue Ridge customers like Kele are winning new opportunities and reducing the cost of keeping customers happy.

Kele's Results After Implementing Blue Ridge Forecast:

• In stock products +20% 
• Purchase orders -20% 
• Service Levels increased 
• Inventory Investment maintained 

 To learn more visit the Blue Ridge website.

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Iberia Foods Turns to Blue Ridge for Supply Chain Planning

Hispanic food and beverage distributor Iberia Foods Corp. has selected supply chain planning technology from Blue Ridge to align the distribution of its product inventory with expected demand from customers.


Iberia Foods started in 1930’s and now distributes to more than 10,000 supermarkets, clubs, wholesale vendors and distributors throughout the East Coast and Midwest from its locations in Brooklyn, NY; Somerset, NJ; Miami; Orlando; Atlanta; Springfield, MA; and Chicago.


Blue Ridge’s cloud-based, distribution-focused forecasting and inventory planning system balances customer needs with business realities like erratic demand from regional uniqueness, seasonality, supermarket promotional/ad movement and market fluctuations that put pressure on today’s foodservice and food wholesale distributors.


“Working with Blue Ridge will allow us to quickly and effectively fulfill increasing demand from our customers while taking our supply chain planning to the next level in order to continue to provide the best service to our also increasing customer base”, said Eric Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Iberia Foods Corp.


The Blue Ridge supply chain platform, which was named 2018's best cloud-native supply chain planning solution for distributors by Frost & Sullivan, helps customers reduce costs, improve service levels, and assure product availability to customers without creating a costly inventory surplus. For more information on Blue Ridge’s supply chain expertise in the foodservice industry, please visit their resource page.


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New Viet Dairy Enhances Operations With Blue Ridge

New Viet Dairy recently announced it has selected Blue Ridge Global Supply Chain Planning and Integrated Business Planning solutions to support operations throughout Vietnam. New Viet Dairy is a leading importer and distributor of dairy, food and beverage products and ingredients. Blue Ridge’s Supply Chain Planning (SCP) technology balances customer needs with business realities, including erratic regional demand, seasonality and market fluctuations that frequently put pressure on foodservice distributors.


Among the top-100 largest private companies in Vietnam since it began operations in 1997, New Viet Dairy has more than 700 employees in its eleven locations throughout Vietnam and soon in Cambodia mid-2019, with revenue of more than $300 million.


Blue Ridge’s SCP solution will support New Viet Dairy’s three primary distribution channels:

• Ingredients: Dairy ingredients are supplied to trusted partners, which include Vinamilk, Nutifood, Dutch Lady, Coca-Cola and Kido.
• Food Service: Providing a large range of food products for the hospitality industry, including dairy, frozen meat and vegetables, sauces, oil and vinegar, wine and beer.
• Retail: New Viet Dairy supplies a select range of mid to high-end imported brand-name foods to major and smaller retailers across the country, including Big C, Coopmart, Aeon, Metro, Giant and convenience chains.

The Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solution will support the alignment of New Viet’s revenue and financial plans with its demand supply. Blue Ridge IBP enables enterprises to craft one consensus operational plan that ensures accountability across functional silos.




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Regal Wine Imports Chooses Blue Ridge to Balance Demand with Inventory

Regal Wine Imports recently selected Ridge to optimize its wine and spirits inventory. Founded in 1980, Regal Wine Imports is an importer and wholesale distributor of fine wines, craft beers and spirits based in Moorestown, New Jersey. Co-owners Charlie Trivinia and Dan Bada have grown the company significantly, now counting more than 75 employees, three offices, and a broad local and national distribution network.


The Blue Ridge supply chain platform was selected for its accuracy in helping retailers and distributors spot and plan for changes in customer demand before they happen. This insight helps Blue Ridge customers reduce costs, improve service levels, and assure product availability to customers without creating a costly inventory surplus.


Blue Ridge’s distribution-focused forecasting and inventory planning technology is particularly effective for wine and spirits distributors. Regal Wine Imports joins fellow distributors Athens Distributing Company, Eder Bros., Georgia Crown Distributing Co., United Distributors, Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors, Martingnetti Companies and Vectura as Blue Ridge customers.


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Athens Wine & Spirits Reduces Overstock With Blue Ridge

Athens Distributing Company of Tennessee is a family run business dedicated to bringing quality wine and spirits products to Tennessee consumers. Athens services 76% of the state of Tennessee, and have been in the wholesale Wine and Spirits business for over 65 years.

Athens selected Blue Ridge for their ability to manage demand and supply planning for retailers and distributors in the most economical way possible. The 'what,' 'how much,' and 'when' of future inventory orders are orchestrated to maximize profitability without sacrificing service to your customers. Because Blue Ridge technology is delivered via the Cloud and was configured to Athens unique environment, results were realized in as little as 90 days.

As a result of implementing the Blue Ridge solution, Athens experienced a 2.4% increase in service levels, saw their overstock drop by 67%, reduced overall inventory by 9% and was able to reduce their on-order inventory by 12%.

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CRP Industries Sees Sales Growth With Blue Ridge

CRP Industries services the automotive parts and industrial products sectors. In addition to their primary headquarters in Cranbury, NJ, CRP also operates facilities and warehouses in Fremont, CA; Mississauga, Ontario; and Puebla, Mexico. The company provides products from some of the most recognized brand names in the NAFTA market, including ContiTech automotive belts, Rein Automotive parts, Pentosin technical fluids, AJUSA gaskets and head bolts, Fertan rust treatment products, Reinflex high-pressure thermoplastic hoses, TUDERTECHNICA rigid mandrel hoses, and Perske high-speed motors.


Prior to implementing the Blue Ridge solution, CRP was grappling with how to best control for the following business sector challenges:


◾Extremely slow moving items
◾Demand seasonality
◾Short product lifecycles
◾Increased competition, industry globalization and increased lead times due to production locales ◾Controlling costs and gaining market share
◾Kitting Opportunities


After implementing Blue Ridge, CRP experienced the following results:
◾Sales growth 10%+ 
◾Order fill rate 95% 
◾Backorders: lowest in company history
◾Improved forecast accuracy and lead-time management
◾Reduced unneeded inventory
◾Significantly greater cash flow to meet long-range goals, such as commercial sales, special programs and market grabbing promotional opportunities


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Rhee Bros. Drives Growth With Blue Ridge

Rhee Bros, a leading Pan-Asian food-service distributor, has selected Blue Ridge technology to improve demand planning, forecasting and inventory allocation to solve supply chain challenges associated with global food-service distribution. From food-service to retail, Rhee Bros. carries thousands of Asian products. Based outside of Baltimore, MD, they serve over 800 customers from independent Asian retailers to U.S. food distributors.


Said Kevin Rhee, director of operations at Rhee Bros. “To effectively manage the global sourcing and distribution challenges associated with short shelf life products, long lead times and seasonality, we felt Blue Ridge was uniquely qualified to provide supply chain planning technology that improves forecast accuracy and reduces overstocks, enabling us to meet customer demand.”


Blue Ridge connects the supply chain to customer demand, enhancing customer experience by ensuring products are available at the right time and place without excessive investments in inventory and logistics. With advanced technology and predictive analytics, organizations define specific business goals and receive a calculated, optimized plan with action-ready recommendations to improve financial performance and increase service levels. Food-service distributors benefit from a solution that automatically considers the effects of variable lead times, seasonality, perishables, deal management, promotions and other factors that impact today’s distributors.


Named a leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Systems, Blue Ridge provides cloud-native supply chain planning technology specifically designed for retail and distribution. To learn more about the Rhee Bros. implementation and read additional case-studies and white papers, visit the Blue Ridge Newsroom.


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Martin Bros. Increases Service and Reduces Inventory with Blue Ridge

Martin Bros. is a full-line distributor with more than 11,000 SKUs, including food products, large equipment, small wares, medical supplies, and janitorial and cleaning supplies. Headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the company employs more than 500 people who serve the Midwest United States.

Revenue first surpassed $100 million in the early 2000's and has more than tripled a decade later. This growth could not happen without a world-class inventory team. From the perspective of Jennifer Meinders, Purchasing Director, her team of replenishment buyers is key to providing the company’s legendary customer service. However, in order to support this rapid growth, Meinders knew she needed a replenishment system to enhance produce purchasing, school bids, events, minimize dumps, and increase cash flow.

Since implementing Blue Ridge, they now consistently achieve firstpass order fill rates of 99.6 percent before item substitutions. This was accomplished while reducing overstock by 25 percent. “Blue Ridge listens to our industry and they have been delivering breakthrough solutions at a rapid pace. Very few software companies combine a state-of-the-art application with very proactive guidance that pushes us to excel. They never let us rest on ‘good enough’ and we have the type of team that turns that into results. Our results in inventory and service speak for themselves."

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Home Hardware Reduces Excess Inventory With Blue Ridge

Home Hardware is a co-op wholesaler owned by more than 1,000 independent business operators with three distribution centers across Canada. The company works with more than 2,600 suppliers and services its four banners, Home Hardware, Home Hardware Building Centers, Home Building Centers, and Home Furniture. As the co-op business expanded, it began to outgrow its legacy fulfillment solution. Keeping the inventory for each of these brands was becoming costly and cumbersome, creating inefficiencies in both time and stock levels.

After an extensive review, Home Hardware selected Blue Ridge. By implementing Blue Ridge's cloud-based solution, the company has seen a 10% reduction in excess inventory and safety stock while increasing service levels to stores by 2.5%.  In addition, IT costs have been lowered and reporting has become faster and easier, with individual store owners now having the ability to hone-in on data pertaining to inventory at any time from any location.

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Vikingbad Selects Blue Ridge Cloud Supply Chain Planning & Analytics To Accelerate Growth

Norwegian bathroom equipment wholesaler Vikingbad recently announced that it has implemented Blue Ridge Cloud Supply Chain Planning and Analytics solution to accelerate growth and increase cash flow.

From 2010 to 2013, Vikingbad more than doubled its annual turnover, and in the Asia-Pacific region are among the preferred brands for total bathroom solutions. Because of their rapid growth, Vikingbad needed a solution to support their ambitious goals without the limitations of traditional supply chain software. Specifically, the company wanted a cloud-native platform with highly accurate demand planning and forecasting to effectively plan their global supply chain with precise supply plans and replenishment.

Blue Ridge was selected for its cloud-native platform with highly accurate demand planning and forecasting abilities to effectively plan global supply chain with precise supply plans and replenishment.

Vikingbad saw planning and optimizing the warehouse capacity as key to the overall performance success. “The detailed plan in Supply Chain Planning combined with Analytic’s easy-to-grasp visualization of the inbound flows, will help us gain a deeper understanding of the supply chain plan. This will allow us to prepare for peak inbound volumes and take proactive action well ahead in time,” stated Kristian Schlanbuch, Vikingbad Founder and COO.

To read more about the implementation and learn about Blue Ridge's supply chain solutions, visit the Blue Ridge Newsroom.

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Efraín Nuñez Selects Blue Ridge to Improve Profitability

Blue Ridge, a Cloud-based supply chain planning solutions provider to retailers, distributors, and manufacturers, recently announced that Efraín Nunez Inc. will implement Blue Ridge's demand forecasting, planning and replenishment solutions.

Efraín Nuñez is an importer, warehouser, and broad line distributor of bakery products for the manufacturing and retail sectors in Puerto Rico. The company also offers onsite technical service in the areas of baking, decorating, pastry, and other related areas. The company expects the implementation to enhance customer service levels while increasing profitability.

Efraín Nuñez saw strategic value in the ability to maintain and enhance world-class customer service levels. The distributor was also motivated to use enhanced demand planning capabilities in order to increase the efficiency and profitability of its supply chain planning operations. Blue Ridge solutions are configured to automatically fulfill demand in the most profitable way possible, taking into consideration current inventory, logistics costs, freight, and other factors thus allowing the business and sales team to focus on strategic objectives and fully take advantage promotions, trends and other business opportunities. By optimizing product availability, inventory, and logistics costs, companies such as Efraín Nunez can increase cash flow by 50% or more and improve sales by double-digits, while stabilizing or even reducing inventory up to 30%. In addition, Blue Ridge's solutions can be implemented in as little as 90 days and scaled to the most complex supply chains.

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