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Is it Time to Upgrade Your WMS to a Fulfillment Management System?

Retail TouchPoints

With the 2024 holiday season not too far away, it’s an opportune moment to evaluate your fulfillment operations and determine which technologies require an upgrade or replacement to secure your future success. That’s where a modern fulfillment management system (FMS) steps in to meet both internal and external needs.

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Preparing Your Warehouse Operations for the Holiday Rush

Retail TouchPoints

Taking steps now to prepare your warehouse for the increase in orders and to ensure fulfillment processes are optimized is essential to make your ecommerce peak season a success. Having adequate inventory to ship is job one for any ecommerce business. Fulfillment operations have become more complex as order size continues to grow.

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How Build-A-Bear’s Pandemic Shift Created Long-Term Omnichannel Opportunity

Retail TouchPoints

For example, during the pandemic’s peak, Build-A-Bear Workshop successfully evolved its brick-and-mortar business to offer more flexible and efficient fulfillment services so it could capitalize on surging ecommerce demand. With a strong inventory management and fulfillment foundation in place, Build-A-Bear is ready to take its next steps.

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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

Keeping in mind as well the need to optimize their supply chain fulfillment to meet consumer delivery expectations while managing parcel carrier costs? With AI, where the nuances of pricing and fulfillment between brick-and-mortar and online sales can be analyzed, the answer is yes. Joining antuit.ai

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5 Things to Know About Amazon’s New ‘Style’ Clothing Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Other tech integrations that will enable a “seamless and elevated shopping experience” include new inventory management systems , new technology to support customer service and the Amazon One palm recognition payment system for fast checkout. There will be humans working the store too.

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How Castlery came back from the brink to disrupt the furniture industry

Inside Retail

We grew relatively quickly in Singapore, and we entered Australia in 2017, but at that time, we were still very naive. The second one would be the pain point of fulfilment. We solved for fulfilment so that you get your goods on time without delay. Every year we just picked a different problem to solve. That was important to us.

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Everything you need to know about Amazon’s first physical clothing store

Inside Retail

It acquired upscale US grocery chain Whole Foods in 2017, and now operates multiple bricks-and-mortar bookstores, 4-star stores (which stock a range of highly rated products) and Amazon Go convenience stores.