Komar Distribution Services utilizes leading edge technologies and proven business processes to ensure our clients orders are processed quickly and accurately.

Our Clients recognize the need for well developed systems in critical areas such as reporting, supply chain management, distribution, replenishment, stock control and customer service in order to be successful. While Komar is busy handling the details of fulfillment and back office management, our customers are focused on developing new ideas, product lines, and marketing plans.

Companies trust Komar with their most important needs because of Komar’s sterling reputation in the market place. We will be happy to furnish references upon request. Here are a few examples of what our clients have to say about KDS services:

"KDS consistently sets the bar for standards of excellence. From customer service to vendor compliance, their team of skilled employees gets the highest marks. They have never missed a monthly shipping goal."

-- Stu Greenberg, President Chelsea Designs

"KDS has been completely responsive to the demands the retailers are requiring from our company for quick turn and efficient processing of orders. The attention to detail has been outstanding allowing us to concentrate on marketing and selling instead of the shipping piece of the business."

-- Randy Severs, President, Bees and Jam

"KDS provides Lotta Luv the comfort level and confidence it needs to strategically grow it's business throughout all tiers of retail....mass...department store....specialty....drug....grocery and dollar channels.....all with tremendous efficiency and timeliness."

-- Steph Fogelson, Presideant, Lotta Luv Cosmetics

KDS is special as it is proactive and makes the impossible happen. They work to make miracles common place and not the exception. Our key accounts achieve their sales and profit numbers routinely, not by accident, but by having the experienced team at KDS at their disposal.

-- Fred Strulson, Vice President Sales, Liz Claiborne Sleepwear

KDS has provided for CC Girl "real time, to the piece" shipping information which is the ultimate in customer service. We are running a very successful replenishment business.

-- President CC Girl

Hi Jeremy,

I am still thrilled every day with the KDS systems. My shipping is 100%! I stock for a replenishment business as well as fashion in the girl’s underwear area and ship to all major and many small independent stores and many websites as well as Target and WalMart. All require different processing and KDS is state-of-the-art.

My favorite tool is “real time” information that I can retrieve while on the phone with a client. I can see immediately exactly where my orders are, not to mention having a wonderful customer service department and great EDI and Traffic departments should I ever need them. KDS has made it possible for me to increase my business in an otherwise difficult economy, our customers are very happy with our shipping and service as well as our retail performance. We beat out all competitors by having goods on the floor shipped correctly! Equally as important is the fact that we have experienced no charge backs due to shipping errors or notification errors.

You can see our product at Nordstrom in the girls’ area and you can see our product on Herroom.com, Macys.com, Target.com (under CCG) and many others. When you are anywhere other than the West Coast, you can see our product in Dillard’s, Macy’s, Bon Ton, Shopko and many independent stores. We just “set up” business for 138 stores with Shopko and our pegs are full due to shipping correctly while competitors are only half stocked due to their poor shipping.

On this all store order we were 6pcs short; we were just sold out of that fashion style and notified our buyer ahead of time. We have added 1,500 new “doors” to our business thanks to Komar and KDS systems since November of 2008!

Rgds,

President
CC Girl Inc

Supply Chain Management Visibility

We found a great article by Peter Bradley on DC Velocity website regarding the need for visibility in complex supply chain systems. Komar Distribution Systems (KDS) agrees with the outlook and supply chain visibility needs established in this article. KDS has developed 3pl systems that provide visibility to our clients as their trusted supply chain outsourcing partner.

With global businesses looking for innovative ways to decrease costs and reduce waste in the supply chain, the executive team at KDS has new offerings in 2010 to meet market demand for cost effective 3PL solutions. KDS offers a complete line of service that include cross docking, inventory warehousing, foreign trade zone (FTZ) logistics, GOH and supply chain management.

Visibility in The Supply Chain

Here is the beginning of the Peter Bradley article and you can read the full version on DC Velocity Website.

When the global recession hit last year, companies around the world found themselves stuck with inventory that suddenly stopped moving. Within days, the repercussions for cash flow started to become apparent. All that inventory meant lots of working capital was tied up in product —and was not available to pay the bills, says Rick Becks, senior vice president of E2open, a company that offers Web-hosted supply chain visibility tools.

Few could have predicted the extent and depth of the recession, but it’s a good bet that companies that had good visibility across their supply chains —that could see actual orders, production, goods in transit, and so on —fared better than those that did not. As for the source of their advantage, it’s a simple matter of exposure.

The companies with the best visibility were less likely to have amassed vast stores of inventory as a hedge against uncertainty —demand fluctuations, forecasting errors, supplier failures, and the like. Visibility into their own and their suppliers’ stocks gave them the confidence to keep global inventories as spare as possible.

The argument for the importance of supply chain visibility is hardly new, and technology that can provide it has been around for more than a decade. But the financial exposure created by the recession sheds new light on just how crucial visibility can be in managing risk.

The imperative to create a clear, near real-time view of the supply chain has only become more pressing over time. Professors Hau Lee of Stanford and Martin Christopher of the U.K.’s Cranfield School of Management argued in a 2004 paper in the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, that a number of forces were combining to make supply chains more vulnerable and turbulent.

Demand in nearly every industrial sector was becoming more volatile, product life-cycles shorter, and competition more intense, they wrote in the article, “Mitigating Supply Chain Risk Through Improved Confidence.” Supply chains had become more subject to disruption from external factors such as wars or strikes and internal factors like shifts in strategy. Lean practices that minimize inventory, the outsourcing of key components of the supply chain, and reliance on fewer suppliers across far-flung networks added to the risk.

That risk has only become greater. “I think it is clear that supply chain vulnerability has increased significantly in recent years,” Christopher wrote in an e-mail reply to a DC VELOCITY query. “The reasons are partly to do with economic and geopolitical uncertainty, but mainly due to increased volatility and turbulence on both the demand side and the supply side. Everybody I meet tells me that it is much harder to run the business on the basis of a forecast and that long-range planning is a thing of the past. Instead, we have to build in the capability to react to the unexpected —this is what I believe resilience in a supply chain context is all about.”

Nari Viswanathan, vice president and principal analyst for the Aberdeen Group’s Supply Chain Management Practice and co-author of a supply chain visibility study published earlier this year, said in a recent interview that while supply chain managers may strive to shave inventories, improve data flows, and compress lead times, several factors are working against them. Fewer suppliers can mean greater risk of supply disruption. Geographic expansion across China, India, other parts of Asia, and Eastern Europe can extend lead times, which leads to greater amounts of inventory in the overall system, once again creating greater complexity and greater risk.

The risk spiral

Now, another development threatens to further complicate supply chains, and thus increase the need for visibility: Supply chains that once were one-way channels are fast becoming multi-directional as countries like China —perhaps China especially —rapidly develop a large consumer market.

Lee and Christopher argued back in 2004 that one of the keys to mitigating the risk caused by complex supply chains lay in developing end-to-end visibility. Visibility helps eliminate one of the major causes of supply chain volatility, what they called the risk spiral —i.e., if a participant in a supply chain lacks confidence in, say, when goods will arrive, the response may be to add safety stock, which in turn creates added pressure on production and extends lead times, resulting in a further erosion of confidence.

The lack of confidence is exacerbated as increases in physical distance and the number of outsourced participants add time to material flow and reduce visibility of any participant in the supply chain to the activities of others.