Conair, Enterra Solutions' foundational client in the consumer products/supply-chain management area, was cited for Outstanding Achievement in the Dick Clark Supply Chain Award category by the leading industry journal Consumer Goods Technology at their annual awards dinner a few days back.
This is what the citation read:
Named in honor of the supply chain visionary, this award is presented to a consumer goods firm for excellence in executing improvements in supply or demand planning, warehouse management, transportation management, S&OP processes or supply chain network design.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
Conair Corporation: Conair co-developed a compliance management system with Enterra Solutions, using new "learning rules" software, that allows it to identify in advance shipments to retail customers that are at "at risk" of not being compliant with shipping rules. This allows Conair to proactively avoid penalty charges and, if they are unavoidable, it then tracks all of the details necessary to dispute a penalty charge. It is now offered to the CPG industry as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution on a subscription basis.
Click here for the announcement at Consumer Goods Technology magazine.
This is what Conair Global CIO John Harding said upon accepting the award:
We at Conair are honored to accept this award and certainly to be recognized in this category. It would be remiss of me not to point out all of the team members who supported this effort. John Mayorek, people from our compliance management team, and, most importantly, our software development partners Enterra Solutions. This system is considered innovative because Enterra Solutions has this proprietary, rules-based technology that senses changes in data, applies rules, and identifies conflicts with our supply chain partners. It is definitely helping us partner with our retailer customers as well as improving our productivity. This is the first of a series of predictive, analytic products that we are working on with Enterra. Finally, the good news is that these applications are actually available to all consumer goods manufacturers. Enterra Solutions is selling these as software-as-a-service offerings – so please see Enterra Solutions.
Naturally, we at Enterra are ecstatic about this recognition.