Products for the toughest athletes
One of the largest Nike-licensed manufacturers in the U.S., JR286 is also a global leader in sports equipment and accessories. Established in 1989, the sporting goods giant specializes in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of athletic products. They’re a proud licensee of top sporting goods brands like Nike and Air Jordan.
The company is on target to hit $1 billion in global sales to more than 2,500 retailers in 150 countries from 65 sales offices. With licensed brands tied to winning sports teams, JR286 is under a lot of pressure to deliver quickly and accurately to new and existing retail clients.
Global reach, limited line of sight and control
JR286’s supply chain spans the globe, and its manufacturing partners ship to wholesale clients, brand headquarters, and independent distributors. Managing such a complex web of interlocking partners and shipments became too overwhelming to control effectively.
This also kept the sales team from selling proactively, as they had to wait for inventory to be logged into a local warehouse. The most urgent need was better cross-function and cross-division visibility — something they weren’t getting from their network of conventional freight forwarders. To gain control and avoid chaos, JR286 needed:
- A centralized platform to deliver a single point of truth and synchronize booking, conversations, visibility and shipment tracking across teams.
- A better way to book freight and optimize shipments.
- Product-level reporting and analytics to empower sales growth and improve inventory turnover.
Wins with Shippabo: the technology to manage a global supply chain
Moving cargo across and between continents became much easier with Shippabo’s ability to track any shipment — whether booked with Shippabo or another forwarder. A clear view of their production chain and exact shipment status helped both logistics and sales teams work more efficiently.
JR286 also gained an optimized freight procurement strategy that reduced demurrage and detention fees. This alone saved the company more than 30%.
Beyond the savings
Shippabo’s all-in-one platform helps JR286 understand what inventory is available to sell, accelerating their order-to-cash cycle. Automated workflows let them expand production to multiple countries without additional FTEs to manage it.
Automated reports deliver actionable insights across the organization — without an army of business analysts, expensive systems, or costly data integrations. And centralizing purchasing and logistics conversations saved more than 800 hours every year that used to go to email and phone tag.
