Top 5 Challenges Within the Warehouse and How to Solve Them

As retail and e-commerce turn into highly competitive spaces warehouse management is also becoming more and more challenging. Customers these days expect lightning-fast deliveries, convenient shopping experiences, and easy returns. This requires greater flexibility, proactive handling, and a technology-driven warehouse management system backing the sales channels.  With new trends such as omnichannel taking full effect,… Continue reading Top 5 Challenges Within the Warehouse and How to Solve Them

How Technology is Propelling the Growth of D2C Brands

Brands that have a well-established presence among their customers can benefit significantly by opting for the D2C route of marketing. In the US alone, D2C sales are expected to reach $175 billion by 2023.  Even new and emerging brands find tremendous merit in D2C marketing as they wish to gain better control over their brand,… Continue reading How Technology is Propelling the Growth of D2C Brands

Digital Transformation in B2B Commerce

The retail business landscape is changing faster than ever. For e-commerce merchants, that change has come in the form of increased competition, changing consumer preferences, and new technologies that enable retailers to reach new customers. For business-to-business (B2B) merchants, it has come in the form of new business models, new sales channels, and new partners.… Continue reading Digital Transformation in B2B Commerce

The FEFO Method for Expiry Date Inventory Management Guidelines

Industries that deal in perishable or low shelf-life products such as baby care, cosmetics, personal care, etc. can incur significant losses due to obsolescence or expiry of stock. It is, therefore, crucial for them to assign expiry dates for each batch, and push the near-expiry stock to the stores first. Automated WMS solutions now enable… Continue reading The FEFO Method for Expiry Date Inventory Management Guidelines

Faster Omnichannel Order Fulfillment is the Future of Retail

Speed is one of the defining factors of omnichannel order fulfillment. According to a recent Mckinsey report, when delivery times are too long, almost half of the omnichannel customers will shop from elsewhere. To match growing customer expectations, brands like Amazon started off with an 8-day delivery horizon in the early 2000s, accelerated to two-day… Continue reading Faster Omnichannel Order Fulfillment is the Future of Retail

E-commerce Inventory and Order Management with Scalable WMS

Businesses demand rapid scalability from brands and retailers, especially in times of peak demand and business growth. When your website takes up to 5 seconds to load, there’s a 90% chance that your customers will bounce to a competitor’s site instead. During the season, there could be a significant ebb and flow in demand due… Continue reading E-commerce Inventory and Order Management with Scalable WMS

Successful Omnichannel Strategies for E-commerce

As retailers increasingly switch to multi channel order fulfillment, they reinvent the supply chain to enhance asset monitoring, outbound & inbound storage, returns management, and distribution of goods. To survive this fast-paced retail environment, retailers need cutting-edge technologies for end-to-end visibility and inventory accuracy to enhance operational efficiency, optimize allocation, and boost turnover. Improve traceability… Continue reading Successful Omnichannel Strategies for E-commerce

Building Integrated Digital Supply Chains for Omnichannel Retail

Supply chain integration brings together all the functions in omnichannel fulfillment into a single system. It necessitates careful coordination and alignment to ensure everyone is working towards the same objective. Supply chain integration is an ongoing process that needs to be regularly updated and tweaked as the business evolves. Most common Supply Chain Integrations 1.… Continue reading Building Integrated Digital Supply Chains for Omnichannel Retail

Advantages of the Marketplace model vs Inventory model for E-commerce

The e-commerce industry has been around for more than a decade now, and it has changed the dynamic of operation of most of the world’s retail marketplaces. One of the major shifts e-commerce players have experienced is the shifting from an inventory-led model to a marketplace model for inventory management. The inventory-led and marketplace e-commerce… Continue reading Advantages of the Marketplace model vs Inventory model for E-commerce

6 Critical Reasons to Outsource Your Warehousing Operations

When deciding whether to outsource warehousing and distribution, it is essential to consider if your business is experiencing rapid growth, struggling with inefficiencies, or spending too much money on warehousing and distribution. When faced with supply chain difficulties, you have a choice to make; you can keep trying to manage logistics internally or outsource your… Continue reading 6 Critical Reasons to Outsource Your Warehousing Operations