Case Study: EastWest Manufacturing reduces shipping costs and streamlines offshore procurement with SOLTECH's web-based shipping app

EastWest Manufacturing reduces shipping costs with SOLTECH by filling full containers

EastWest Manufacturing, a company that automates offshore procurement for its US clients, faced the challenge of moving beyond a complex spreadsheet prototype. They had a vision to simplify the process of ordering and shipping products from overseas manufacturers by consolidating orders into full containers to significantly reduce costs for smaller companies. They partnered with custom software development vendor SOLTECH to build a web-based application to achieve this.

SOLTECH analyzed the existing Excel model and built a browser-based tool that allowed a group of buyers to order products online and visually see a container's capacity. The solution included a "Container Wizard" to manage loading and automatically accounted for dynamic supply chain variables. The application implemented by SOLTECH enabled a direct ship model that removed the middleman, which reduced costs and enhanced profitability for both the manufacturer and the client.

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