CAPE TOWN, South Africa and ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Manhattan Associates (Nasdaq:MANH) customer TFG (formerly known as The Foschini Group), the South African fashion and lifestyle retail giant, has won gold at the 2010 Logistics Achiever Awards (LAA) for the success its logistics team has had in driving supply chain process improvements and delivering significant business benefits across its extensive retail and distribution operations in South Africa.
The impressive results were achieved through a number of initiatives led by the TFG Logistics team including a successful roll-out of Manhattan Associates' Warehouse Management solution (WMS), as well as an in-house logistics employee empowerment program and a lead-time reduction project. The award win coincided with the retailer's latest go-live with Manhattan's WMS at the company's flagship brand Foschini. The company's Markham and exact! divisions went live with Manhattan's WMS earlier this year. Local supply chain consultancy and Manhattan GeoPartner Supply Chain Junction also played an instrumental role in the WMS deployment project.
This year's awards, the 22nd in the history of the Annual Logistics Achiever Awards, were presented at a ceremony held at The Emperor's Palace in Johannesburg.
Jan Tukker, group logistics director at TFG, commented, "As a direct result of the Manhattan system deployment and the process improvements we have made, we've been able to reduce logistics lead times from 17 to 4.9 days in the distribution centers; reduce DC stockholding levels by 64 percent; improve overall delivery conformance by 11.5 percent and we've measured DC pick accuracy consistently at 99.9 percent. This and the other logistics enhancement initiatives we've undertaken have delivered a 10.1 percent reduction in the overall cost of logistics as a percentage of turnover, and this at a time when cost inflation has been running at around 6 percent."
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