ES3’s D2SSM Solution Wins 2011 CSCMP Innovation of the Year
Posted by Travis Baker on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 @ 08:57 AM
ES3’s direct-to-store (D2S) program has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Supply Chain Innovation Award ™ by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).
The D2S program provides a shared, collaborative warehouse for manufacturers and retailers, resulting in significant reductions in costs and carbon usage, improved speed to shelf, and increased on-shelf availability. The D2S solution was presented by Walt Lentz, Senior Vice President of Ahold USA; Dave Allen, Executive Vice President of Operations of Del Monte Foods; and Brenda Hambleton, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of ES3 at the Annual Global CSCMP conference in Philadelphia.
The Supply Chain Innovation Award ™ recognizes outstanding innovations in supply chain practices that reduced costs, streamlined processes, saved energy, and improved operating efficiencies. Six corporate teams competed for the award, including ADT Security Services, Inc. in collaboration with Inmar, Inc.; The Dow Chemical Company in collaboration with Dr. Timothy Pettit of the Air Force Institute of Technology; IMB Corporation; Motorola Mobility; and Polo Ralph Lauren.
Final selection was announced this morning. Upon hearing the news, Walt Lentz expressed his congratulations to the whole D2S team. “Your teams continued hard work and belief in this new concept is greatly appreciated by myself and the greater Ahold organization,” he said.
“Excellent! Congratulations! The future is even brighter,” said Dave Allen.
ES3 has the world’s largest grocery warehouse in York, PA. The facility is the first truly collaborative warehouse and serves as the Northeast mixing center for over 60 manufacturers. ES3’s D2S program provides daily delivery to retail stores directly from manufacturer inventory – eliminating the retail warehouse and a leg of transportation. This speed to shelf store is enabled through ES3’s streamlined processes and automation. ES3 uses SSI Schaefer’s SCP case pick solution to handle slow-mover case selection.
About ES3
ES3 is an experienced team of supply chain experts focused on innovation that will make product move faster, more efficiently, and at less cost than traditional supply chain models. The ES3 network spans the entire US, and includes the world's largest, multi-manufacturer collaborative warehouse, which services the Northeast with ES3's revolutionary Consolidation and D2SSM programs. ES3 provides consolidated warehousing, case pick and transportation services to more than 60 consumer packaged goods manufacturers. ©ES3, LLC.
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