Retail, Entertainment, and Food Services
About Noble Foods
Noble Foods was founded in 1999 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and serves as a premium bar manufacturer for several major diet and functional food brands in North America. They pride themselves on being flexible to the needs of their customers and are known for their rapid R&D turnaround and unparalleled customer service.
What Clear Spider has Done
Noble Foods needed a warehouse management system that could help it keep its promises to its end customers and their search ultimately led them to Clear Spider.
Through the work of Clear Spider’s talented team, barcoding & pallet system was implemented to help show physical item locations within the warehouse, provide detailed expiry dates with a FIFO system and track partially used items for later use. Additionally, Clear Spider creates a custom pick-list that allows Noble’s staff to see where exactly the right ingredient bin is and allows the staff member to scan items off the list as they are picked.
Overall, Clear Spider has provided Noble Foods with a system that helps them cut costs, improves labor efficiency and allows them to continue to provide the highest quality service to their customers.
Challenges
- Expiration Date Tracking
- Ingredient Stock Prioritization
- Inbound inventory Tracking
- Partial Stock Use Tracking
Solutions
- Barcoding / Pallet System
- Partial Usage Lot Tracking
- Custom Pick-Slip Creation
- FIFO System Design
Results
- Comprehensive Inventory Reports
- Integrate Partially Used Items back into Usable Inventory
- More Efficient Picking Process
- Inventory Cost Reduction
- Efficient Perishable Stock Use
About Rent-A-Center
Rent-A-Center (RAC) is a Fortune 500 company that operates with a “rent-to-own” business model and offers both new and used furniture, appliances, computers and electronic products. With over 3,000 stores across North America, RAC dominates the rent-to-own market with a sizable 35% market share claim to their name.
What Clear Spider has Done
Clear Spider partnered with Rent-A-Center and Rent-Time Furniture to provide an inventory management solution tailored to their specific needs.
Clear Spider was implemented to track what Rent-A-Center’s stock is and where it goes. The system provided the ability to track items by their specific brand, retailer and client renting it. Customized labels and fields for inventory were also utilized to tailor RAC’s instance of Clear Spider to their exact specifications. Through Clear Spider, RAC can see detailed analytics on what products have the highest turnover or most popular to help with forecasting customer demand.
The Clear Spider system allows Rent-A-Center to effectively track their inventory while simultaneously providing data insights that assist with critical business decisions.
Challenges
- Real-Time Inventory Information
- Unique Item Attribute Tracking
- Future Forecasting Processes
Solutions
- Inventory and Order Management
- Customized Labels
- Customized Inventory Fields
- Inventory Data Acquisition
Results
- Real-Time Data Gathering Capabilities
- Clear Visibility of Inventory
- Better Accountability
- Fewer Lost Items
- Simple Tracking
About Caviar
Caviar is a food delivery company with headquarters based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Caviar’s delivery service is only provided to select, high-quality restaurants and services over 15 major cities throughout the United States
What Clear Spider has Done
One major piece of Caviar’s business model is providing catering options to corporate customers and special events. In either of these cases, the Caviar team is responsible not only for catering the food, but handling the set-up of the dining space as well. Each event may demand numerous different assets (consumable and non-consumable) and this revealed the need to have an inventory management system that could allocate and track these assets for each event.
Caviar chose to work with Clear Spider due to its ability to provide overall visibility into their inventory processes for both outbound events and transfers between stocking locations. By using the Clear Spider mobile app, Caviar is able to scan inventory into the system remotely without the additional cost of dedicated scanners.
Clear Spider is also able to prioritize specific events and can immediately allocate the necessary inventory so high priority events are never short on supplies. Clear Spider has helped Caviar run more efficiently, track their inventory more accurately and become more flexible in achieving their goals.
Challenges
- Available vs. Committed Inventory
- Overall Inventory Visibility
- Inventory Stock Flexibility
Solutions
- Barcode Scanning
- Mobile App
- Event Prioritization
Results
- Increased Inventory Visibility
- Operational Flexibility
- Stockout Reduction
- Inventory Prioritization
- Higher Service-Levels
About E11EVEN Miami
E11EVEN Miami is an ultraclub located in Miami, Florida. The energetic space is highlighted by scheduled live performances, renowned DJs, and private VIP spaces.
What Clear Spider has Done
Clear Spider was brought in to handle the constant movement of inventory flowing through E11EVEN Miami. E11EVEN wanted a system that could be set up quickly and help it track what inventory was needed at different areas of the club so that no bar would run short of any item that a patron might request. Clear Spider has gone beyond simply providing inventory visibility by showing E11EVEN what their best selling items are at each spot throughout the club. This reporting has helped E11EVEN by providing business insights into what products are sold more and which nights demand more of a specific product. These business insights and the inventory clarity provided by Clear Spider have helped E11EVEN Miami to continue to provide the best nightclub experience possible in Florida.
Challenges
- Inventory Visibility
- Rapidly Deployed Inventory System
- Inventory Business Insights
Solutions
- Consumption
- Order Management
- Replenishment
Results
- Area-Specific Reporting
- Reduce Stockouts
- Higher Service Levels
About MTE Solutions
Founded in 1985, MTE Solutions specializes in the implementation of advanced technologies such as cloud-based VMI programs. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, MTE Solutions has been dubbed as a “hybrid distributor” and operates across multiple industries including wire and cable, labels and packaging, medical manufacturing, ECM, and OEM’s.
What Clear Spider has Done
MTE Solutions struggled with tracking their many products and re-ordering for their customers.
Clear Spider was brought in to help MTE streamline their manual processes by increasing inventory visibility, implementing purchase order creation and using the system’s VMI capabilities. Clear Spider’s ability to organize and distribute unique products across multiple industries is particularly useful for MTE Solutions as they operate across several different industries. Clear Spider also helps with PO creation and distribution which helps keep shipments accurate and lets MTE Solutions receive payments from orders faster.
Using Clear Spider, MTE Solutions enjoys significant improvements such as faster response times to customer requests and better flows of inventory for both themselves and their customers.
Challenges
- External Product Tracking
- Inventory Management Process Inefficiencies
- Manual Inventory Processes
Solutions
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
- Inventory Management
- Replenishment Function
- PO Creation and Distribution
- Min / Max Level Notifications
Results
- Improved Business Efficiency
- Greater Inventory Visibility
- Comprehensive Tracking
- Streamlined Ordering Processes
- Detailed Inventory Reports
- Faster Reaction to Customer Demands
