Clients
Our mission is to establish consultative relationships with our clients and work together as a true partner. Our client list represents a who’s who of companies of industry leaders, and our awards from industry publications speak to our commitment.
Our clients depend on us to work closely with them to expose and resolve opportunities for financial and operational improvements
throughout their extended supply chain. More importantly, once the initial results are recognized, our clients continue to identify
additional opportunities and return to Blue Sky to assist in those projects, indicating that the cost vs. benefit for using our products
and services is truly valuable.
Successful Client Projects
Stop and Shop and Giant Foods
Stop & Shop and Giant were opening a new shared services DC facility in Freetown, MA. The facility is highly automated with AS/RS crane equipment. They needed to stretch the facility to service more stores than originally expected. To-date they have saved more that $7 Million in inventory and labor, and increased their service level by 2-3%. They started by tracking their top 20 metrics.
“Blue Sky has delivered upon their promise by providing us with a true working example of a visibility application that doesn’t cost a fortune to implement or see results. We implemented the application almost overnight and have achieved positive results from day one.”
“To use an analogy, you can get up from your living room every ten minutes, walk to your front door and see if there is anyone there, or you can install a doorbell. Insight™ gives us our doorbell.”
Jerry Pimental
Site Manager
Stop and Shop, Freetown
“Insight has had an immediate and substantial impact on our operations. Upon implementation of Insight, supervisors and managers of the operation have been able to spend more time actually managing the operation instead of mining for data or waiting until reports could be generated.”
“From a supply chain viewpoint, Insight helps us gain visibility across our corporate information systems. We envision that Blue Sky’s Insight will play a mission critical role in our business decision process.”
Joseph Francis
Manager of Process and
Systems Improvement -
Supply Chain Strategy and
Execution Group
Stop and Shop
New England’s largest Grocery Chain needed better visibility into the events that hampered its’ productivity. Insight has allowed them to be proactive in the management of their operations.
Whole Foods
Whole Foods has a largely disparate fulfillment supply chain with 10 separate DC’s, including several freight forwarders. They are moving towards centralizing their purchasing operations and needed enterprise-wide inventory visibility to accomplish their goals. In their estimation, this project will save them $8-10 million per year.
Staples
Staples sought to improve DC service level from 92% to 96%. This will drive roughly $554 million in additional product to the store shelves.
Freight Handlers, Inc.
FHI provides an outsourced labor force to many of the top grocery distribution operations and sought to improve the level of reporting on the results obtained from the use of their services. By ensuring that their clients continue to see their true value, they retain loyalty to their service offerings.
“At FHI we have found that Blue Sky’s knowledge of the Grocery and General Merchandise logistics channels 'cuts to the chase' when designing and developing Best in Class 'Visibility and Reporting Software Solutions' for our marketplace.”
Chuck Wall
CEO
Freight Handlers, Inc.
FHI, LLC
