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Blue Coat

Value Stories

  • Identified >$7 million in cost savings opportunities over 3 years through a strategic environmental roadmap.
  • Together with the SVP Operations, galvanized the Blue Planet team, which today is making sweeping cost-reduction and environmental-impact reduction throughout the company and in each Blue Coat region.
  • Continually brings to Blue Coat best practices for operations, manufacturing outsourcing, supplier visibility, lean practices, environmental compliance, Lean and Green, and streamlined logistics.

Services Used to Date

  • Business Intelligence client since 2007, comprising consulting, benchmark studies, and initiative leadership in operations, manufacturing, outsourcing, information technology, and environmental strategies.
  • Numerous TFI and TFI Environment workshops, including Design-for-Environment, What Comes Before: Proactive Decisions for Cost Savings and Sustainability, and Outsourcing Navigator.
  • Quarterly Forum member since 2005.
Extreme Networks

Value Stories

  • TFI Quarterly Forum Member since 2003.
  • Business Intelligence Member since 2007.
  • Saved over $250K in consulting fees using Business Intelligence instead of prior firms.

Services Used to Date

  • Distribution and Logistics Benchmarking
  • Service Inventory and Accounting Benchmarking
  • Supply Chain Maturity Analysis
  • Outsourced Navigator - Training for all Extreme SCM team
  • Engaged in Environmental Strategy
  •    Worked with TFI and Hitachi on re-engineering our Part ID for next compliance mandate
       Design-for-Environment Workshop
CEA

Value Stories

  • Within budget, conducted a landmark industry study on substance-restriction requirements. "The result was great quantitative information and illustrative qualitative insights--all well presented." -Parker Brugge, Vice President Environmental Affairs and Industry Sustainability.
  • Condensed into one powerful report the consumer electronics industry's first global sustainability report, which benchmarks the industry's progress toward eco-stewardship, from design and energy efficiency to green manufacturing and clean delivery systems.

Services Used to Date

  • Conducting a global market research study estimating electronics companies expenditures on and benefits from the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive.
  • Research, writing, and graphic design of the report Environmental Sustainability and Innovation in the Consumer Electronics Industry, featuring the industry's innovative and environmentally-conservative accomplishments.
  • Provides on-demand insight on global industry and regulatory environmental initiatives.