Case Studies | Consumer goods designers, importers, distributors improve business performance

Customer Case Studies

Learn how other consumer goods designers, importers and distributors from a range of industries have improved their business performance using Apprise Software's ERP and supply chain management solutions.

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A-America
Allure Bridals
Athens Distributing
Carolina Pad
Catalina Lighting
Janome America
McCubbin Hosiery
Modus Furniture International
Northland Fishing Tackle
Revere Mills
Travelon
Trish McEvoy

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Janome America	Since 1995, Janome America, the North American subsidiary of Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd, has relied on Apprise® to streamline its operations with enterprise wide tools and technology. Over the years, the division's operational and cost savings success caught the notice of Janome Canada and Janome Australia. Today, Apprise helps manage operations around the world for all three divisions of the global sewing giant. Download the complete case study.


Apparel & Textilesback to top
Allure Bridals	As a leading fashion forward designer of bridal and formal wear serving independent retailers, Allure Bridals sought to improve its customer service through real-time visibility into inventory status and availability, which it achieves through Apprise® and our eBusiness solutions. Download the complete case study.



McCubbin Hosiery	McCubbin Hosiery sells to an impressive roster of independent and mass merchant retailers. In 2006, chargebacks soared after the hosiery producer signed its second nationally licensed account — threatening the company's balance sheet and reputation for excellent customer service. Since implementing Apprise® in 2007, the company has improved warehouse and EDI processes and reduced chargebacks up to 92 percent. Read the full case study to learn how McCubbin's Apprise implementation helped boost revenue by 22 percent, despite the worst recession in generations. Download the complete case study.


Health & Beautyback to top
Trish McEvoy	A leading designer and distributor of fine cosmetic products that sources largely overseas, Trish McEvoy has reduced stock-outs, improved on-time product delivery, increased inventory accuracy, and reduced chargebacks by 98% since deploying Apprise®. Download the complete case study.


Home Furnishingsback to top
A-America	A long-time importer and distributor of wooden home furnishings, A-America was faced with new challenges as competitors began to source overseas. To remain competitive, it needed new systems and tools that would provide tighter integration and improved efficiencies, and the ability to deliver real-time access to information. Through Apprise® , A-America has improved demand forecasting accuracy and garnered a 67% improvement in warehouse picking efficiencies. Download the complete case study.



Modus Furniture International	A leading designer and distributor of contemporary home furnishings, Modus Furniture faced challenges associated with leased warehousing and disparate financial and operational systems. With Apprise® , Modus consolidated onto one system to achieve improved inventory visibility and efficiency gains in all aspects of its warehouse operations - improving inventory accuracy by 15 percentage points in the first year. Download the complete case study.


Housewares & Giftwareback to top
Revere Mills	A leader in the home textiles industry, Revere Mills' business changed rapidly as manufacturing shifted overseas and sales shifted to mass merchandisers and other large retailers. With Apprise® , Revere Mills has integrated and automated its processes and achieved a 50% gain in operating efficiencies while improving retailer compliance. Download the complete case study.


Luggage & Travel Accessoriesback to top
Travelon	A value-added designer and importer of luggage and travel accessories supplying both retailers and distributors, Travelon required tighter system integration to achieve better insight into its sales, product line, customer, and supplier performance. Through Apprise® , Travelon has gained a better understanding of product costs, product line profitability, sales performance, and customer trends and profitability, enabling it to improve margins and business efficiencies. Download the complete case study.


Sporting Goods, Toys & Noveltiesback to top
Northland Fishing Tackle	Northland has been designing, testing and perfecting an exclusive line of fishing products for the past 25 years. As demand for their high quality products kept growing the company realized it needed to find a better way to efficiently manage their distribution system. A combination of implementing Apprise® and updating their processes has quickly made the company’s supply chain run smoother and has eliminated many extraneous costs. Download the complete case study.


Wine & Spiritsback to top
Athens Distributing Company	Athens Distributing Company supplies hundreds of brands of wine and spirits to consumers in Tennessee. After the company replaced its 30-year-old legacy system with Apprise®, the family-owned and operated business experienced improved data sharing and business intelligence, simplified compliance reporting, warehouse efficiencies and more. Download the complete case study.


Other Consumer Goodsback to top
Catalina Lighting	A marketer, designer and distributor of residential and commercial lighting products that serves specialty retailers and mass merchandisers, Catalina Lighting sought to consolidate its various financial and operational systems to a single, fully integrated ERP solution that would best support its distribution centric operations. With Apprise® , Catalina is able to integrate its wired and wireless warehouse operations, EDI, and other compliance requirements and improve efficiencies in accounting, order entry, warehouse operations, and more. Download the complete case study.



Carolina Pad	A fashion forward designer, developer and distributor of school and office supplies to Target, Wal-Mart, Staples and other retailers, Carolina Pad faced new challenges as their manufacturing shifted offshore to the Asia Pacific region. With Apprise® , it has improved global workflows and collaboration, enhanced ease of use, improved data visibility, and gained efficiencies throughout its operations. Download the complete case study.
	Carolina Pad wanted to gain production visibility into overseas activities at more than 50 manufacturing partner locations. The implementation of Apprise® Supplier Production Monitoring helped the stationery leader gain access to current, accurate and in sync production data and integrate it seamlessly into their core Apprise application. Read the case study to learn how Carolina Pad saved over $1M dollars while minimizing chargebacks and improving profits. Download the complete case study.

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