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Sears Chooses STI for Store Furnishing Logistics
October 06, 2010
STI, a business leader in specialized supply chain solutions, is proud to be chosen by Sears for
their nationwide store modernization program for Sears and K Mart locations. Supporting the
renovations, STI developed a comprehensive logistics solution to ensure all components such
as vendors, Sears’s internal buyers, and transportation was coordinated. Sears’ unique
logistics needs required a blend of STI’s services such as vendor management, packaging and
crating development, web based visibility tools, and transport optimization to ensure the project
was on time and using less trucks than originally planned.
“We assembled a project team of operations, product process engineers, and account
management to tailor a customized standard operations procedure (SOP) for Sears,” said Jim
Cass, Director of Operations for STI. “For the menswear roll out, we optimized over 200
truckloads of less-than-truckload shipments leveraging STI’s 43 distribution centers to reduce
the number of truckloads by 20%, providing efficiency for the vendors and meeting all delivery
dates, damage free,” Cass said.