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Earlier this year, as a third focus area of our GrowLEAN initiative, we challenged our employees to reduce working capital to the teens or less than 20% of sales. This is for us a highly transformational and important initiative that we expect will start slowly and accelerate over the next few years.

- Minnesota-based equipment manufacturer

Success Stories

Today, more than 1 million users are using Four51's technology to streamline indirect goods ordering and permanently remove dead cost from their ecosystems. And that number grows by 1,300 every business day.

Below are summary success stories from a few Four51 customers. Note the variety of industry types. What they all have in common are highly distributed go-to-market models and complex ecosystem-readiness requirements.

Customer

Problem

Solution

Result

Telecomm & Wireless Services Provider with 8,000 locations

Lacked standard, automated ordering system. Direct and Indirect Sales Channels could not get the right product on time.

10,000 users placing 15,000 orders per month manually

Inefficient manual ordering system with administrative cost of $59 per order. Obsolete inventory choking the Field, high levels of frustration.

Create an online ordering system for streamlining and automating order process and order fulfillment system

Fully integrated back office system & external supply chain

System configured to specification and deployed in 3 months

Automated 15,000 monthly orders

Streamlined order process and fulfillment resulting in 90% reduction in cost per order. Complete integration with existing accounting system.

Saves 7,500 man-hours per month and $750,000 in monthly order admin costs

Customer

Problem

Solution

Result

Four51 Solutions Manufacturing

Multi-Site Manufacturer with 8,800 employees creating 11,000 orders per month

Multiple, disjointed internal ordering methods causing problems for Procurement and 3,000 Sales & Marketing users

Needed to maintain multi-vendor strategy that includes In-Plant print operation

Four51 solution configured to provide single system for internal orders. Compliance with corporate purchasing contracts is enforced and all vendors receive orders the same way.

3,000 users now placing 11,000 monthly orders through single platform linked to company's back-office system. Four data entry positions were re-deployed to revenue-generating roles.

Customer

Problem

Solution

Result

National Retail/Franchise Pizza Chain with 17,000 employees and 2,000 users and 2,700 stores

In-Store marketing materials were difficult to order and often arrived after date needed. Non-compliance resulted in massive maverick spending.

Needed to maintain multi-vendor strategy that includes In-Plant print operation; In-Plant also sells services to external buyers

Four51 solution gave stores a single, streamlined ordering platform.

Order fulfillment time improved to 30 hours from 2 weeks.

Field satisfaction rose while significantly more spend was brought under management and several admin positions were eliminated.