RedPrairie's solutions will manage AAFES's large variety of products, ranging [image-nocss] from food and beverage, to hazardous materials, to retail goods. In addition, the RedPrairie WMS will ship to a wide variety of store formats, including quasi-mobile installations, as well as permanent stores in several countries. The goal of the entire process is to improve efficiency within the supply chain by reducing lost inventory, optimizing labor, reducing safety stock and lowering transportation costs.
"RedPrairie has always worked with a wide variety of products from company to company," said RedPrairie CEO Mike Mayoras, "AAFES is an amalgamation of all those industries: food and beverage, retail, automotive, and much more. We're proud to not only serve each of these verticals, but our men and women in uniform as well."
AAFES, based in Dallas, is a joint command and is directed by a board of directors that is responsible to the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force through the Service Chiefs of Staff. AAFES has the dual mission of providing authorized patrons with articles of merchandise and services and generating non-appropriated fund earnings as a supplemental source of funding for military Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) programs.
Milwaukee-based RedPrairie is an optimization company built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Its integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to more than 32,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies. RedPrairie's E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the "last yard" problem of the retail supply chain.
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