Case Study: Office Product Retailing Company achieves tens of millions in ROI and lower freight costs with DatAvail

Office Product Retailing Company - Customer Case Study

Office Product Retailing Company, a Fortune 500 office-supply retailer with 60,000+ employees and thousands of stores, faced inefficient vendor selection, haphazard SKU placement in warehouses, and rising LTL freight costs. DatAvail was engaged (DatAvail Analytics Services) to apply analytics and automated tools to improve partner ranking, SKU prioritization, and shipment packing.

DatAvail implemented a vendor scorecard to rate partners, an "ABC by picks" process and software to prioritize and optimally place SKUs, and a "truckload rounding" cubing application to maximize freight utilization. These measures produced tens of millions of dollars in ROI, significantly improved vendor performance, increased labor productivity and reduced warehouse travel time, lowered freight costs, and enabled smarter stock distribution to individual stores.