Case Study: Pet Care Company achieves optimized private rail fleet utilization and reduced demurrage costs with e2open

Pet Care Company Improves Private Rail Equipment Utilization

A Midwest-based pet care company with about 15,000 employees manages large inbound rail shipments of rice, barley, corn, and other bulk ingredients and operates a private fleet of roughly 1,600 railcars. The company struggled with fragmented carrier data and poor visibility into car locations and history, which made it difficult to size and cycle its fleet properly, increased reliance on railway-owned equipment, and drove up freight and demurrage costs.

E2open implemented integrated real-time transit and purchase-order reporting, visual analytics for fleet utilization and yard/dwell monitoring, and managed services to proactively reposition empty cars. The solution improved private fleet utilization, reduced railway-owned equipment injections, lowered demurrage and freight costs, increased car turns, and delivered lease-savings metrics that justified additional privately leased cars while enabling ongoing process improvements.