Contact Information

Operations:
Derek Crowe
Valerie Diaz
Krissy Kelly
Lee Sigmon
Krissy Kelly

Administrative:
Mark Brininstool

Sales:

Solutions

Transportation Services

Transportation Management

Supply Chain Management

Distribution Management

Supply Chain Management

Red Cedar Logistics has the expertise to analyze, evaluate and control the flow of incoming materials to our clients. This supply chain process includes:

• Supplier ship schedules
• Supplier ship quantities
• Supplier ship mode
• Supplier lead time requirements
• Supplier safety stock program
• Client inventory levels
• Client inventory accuracy
• Client indirect labor requirements
• Client inventory carrying costs
• Client to vendor payment terms

Red Cedar Logistics analyzes this information to develop an inbound inventory deployment program. Typically, inbound programs are developed and run from an off-site facility, managed by Red Cedar Logistics, distinct from the manufacturing facilities. Red Cedar facilitates the storage of raw materials from the supplier on consignment. This allows the manufacturer to take ownership of the material just before it is consumed in the manufacturing process. Red Cedar is responsible for the picking, staging and transportation of the raw material to the manufacturing site on a pre-determined interval. The quantity of material to be transported to the manufacturing facility is determined by the production scheduling process within the client operation.

The raw material necessary for production that is transported from the off-site facility is moved in "PRO-CERTS". PRO-CERTS are PROduction CEll RequirmenTS. Each production line (cell) within the manufacturing process has a specific number of specific raw materials it will consume in a given time interval. Red Cedar moves PRO-CERTS to the manufacturing process to support this time interval. Each PRO-CERT is line sequenced to each production cell. This allows the production cell to pull parts from the PRO-CERT in the order necessary for production. As an example, a manufacturer produces three variations of a standard base model on a single production cell. The variation is the color of the injection-molded exterior of the product. PRO-CERTS are received from the Red Cedar Logistics facility with 14 blue exteriors, followed by 7 green exteriors, followed by 2 red exteriors, followed by 3 green exteriors, etc. This process allows the manufacturer to produce to customer orders rather than producing to stock. Additionally, the space previously required for raw material storage is available for production.

Upon completion of the manufacturing process, finished goods are transported back to Red Cedar's facility for shipment to the customer. Red Cedar performs these functions as well, increasing utilization within the off-site facility and reducing the indirect labor requirements for the client.

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