10.13.09 : Global Pharmaceutical Company Complements Energy & Waste Reduction Efforts with Implementation of Transportation Management Solution
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:43AM Health care product giant Abbott deploys CMS WorldLink, a transportation managment solution, to streamline worldwide supply chain operations & heighten logistics efficiencies across the enterprise
Global supply chain and transportation enterprise management leader CMS GlobalSoft, Inc. announces today the signing of its newest transportation management solutions (TMS) client, Abbott (NYSE : ABT), a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics. The company employs more than 72,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.
“Abbott recently initiated a company-wide effort to safeguard the environment and reduce energy costs across all of its global health care businesses,” says CMS GlobalSoft President & CEO Wil Fekeci, noting the health care product giant has just recently reported success in cutting use of oil and coal by 35 percent. True o form, Abbott’s Vice President of Global Engineering Services, Corlis Murray, was recently quoted saying that conserving electricity has become a integral part of the way Abbott does business. Says Murray, “Our businesses have employed a variety of approaches that are economically as well as environmentally sustainable based on the many different products we market, various manufacturing needs and opportunities that exist at different plant locations around the world.”
“This kind of massive, international initiative requires an organization like Abbott to scrutinize absolutely every single aspect of their operations where resources can be consolidated to reduce energy costs and where waste and redundancy can be reduced or altogether eliminated.” Fekeci adds, “This is where, on the supply chain and logistics side of operations, a transportation management solution like our CMS WorldLink becomes an integral, key player in the role of conservation. As a robust, enterprise-wide TMS solution, CMS WorldLink can identify pockets of opportunities where global logistics productivity and efficiencies can be maximized worldwide, thus resulting in significant savings of energy, time and resources across the supply chain.”
About Abbott
Abbot was recently named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and Down Jones Sustainability North America Index for the fifth consecutive year. Abbott was just two of U.S. based pharmaceutical companies to be listed on both indices. The down Jones Sustainability World Index ranks Abbott among the top 300 of the world’s largest 2,500 companies, based on an assessment of economic, social and environmental performance. For more information, please visit www.abbott.com.
CMS WorldLink is a robust, browser based multi-carrier enterprise shipping application designed to address the shipping needs of both small and large businesses. The logistics solution is equally suitable in a single warehouse environment as well as multiple distribution centers located throughout the world.
About CMS GlobalSoft, Inc.
Headquartered in Springfield, Virginia, and off-shore offices in Pune, India, CMS GlobalSoft, formerly known as CMS Consultants, Inc., founded in 1988 as both a consultant and reseller of shipping manifest software, adding value by providing integration and implementation services as well as expertise consulting services. CMS’s extensive industry knowledge, seasoned technical expertise and passion for customer focus has resulted in strong and progressive growth in recent years and has earned the company its reputation as an industry leader in transportation logistics.
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