Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Inkga Group, owner and operator of 482 Ikea stores and ecommerce in 31 countries, will adopt a solution from Made4net to power fulfillment centers and store operations worldwide. The deployment follows the purchase of Made4net by Ingka Investments , the group’s investment arm.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zulily Group has engaged the advisory firm Gordon Brothers to sell off more than $85 million of inventory and the assets of its two fulfillment centers following the online retailer’s decision late last year to shut down. Screenshot of the Zulily website from December 2023 highlighting the going-out-of-business sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To better serve a growing legion of West Coast customers, Tapestry , parent company of brands including Coach and Kate Spade , opened its 788,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Fulfillment Center in November. Tapestry already operates a fulfillment center serving the East Coast located in Jacksonville, Fla. Designed to distribute 22.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

PFS’ RetailConnect aims to enable retailers to fulfill ecommerce orders from brick-and-mortar stores efficiently and without disrupting ongoing store operations. RetailConnect combines an order management platform with lightweight hardware to help increase speed and accuracy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Fulfillment technology company Fulfillment IQ has expanded its portfolio with an investment in Tusk Logistics, a regional delivery network. Tusk is designed to integrate easily into a shipper’s existing operational software, such as a warehouse or transportation management system.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

Amazon is rolling out new AI-powered technology across its warehouses to detect damaged goods in a bid to decrease the number of damaged items sent to customers and speed up the fulfillment process, The Wall Street Journal reports. MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, author of The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The NYC-headquartered Fillogic will support the retailer through ecommerce and store-based fulfillment, reverse logistics and returns, forward-staging of inventory and final-mile delivery. The space will allow the retailer to stage inventory, satisfy merchandise pickup and delivery and fulfill store-based and ecommerce orders.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2023

million in capital raising to fund the completion of its Next Gen customer fulfilment centre and enhance its capital position. The loan facility ($5 million) was secured from AFSG Asset Management. Pureplay books retailer Booktopia has raised $8.1 The raise comprises a $6.5 Nash will reman a non-executive director of Booktopia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2022

British retailer Asda is enhancing its end-to-end supply chain and retail operations by partnering with Blue Yonder to improve order management. Asda, which operates 640 stores including supercenters, superstores and supermarkets, also will work with Bringg to upgrade its fulfillment capabilities.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Ebay, Australia’s second-largest online marketplace, is launching a fulfilment service for vendors opening the way for 40,000 local sellers to contract out deliveries. The program has been set up in partnership with the global logistics firm, Orange Connex, launching with two Sydney fulfilment centres.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coles Group , which operates a chain of more than 800 supermarkets across Australia, will deploy the Bringg delivery management platform in a bid to make its home delivery operations more efficient. The solution will make it easier for Coles to allocate deliveries to its network of carriers and track deliveries in real time. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

When UK and Irish discount book, games and toy retailer The Works set out to improve the accuracy and efficiency of its inventory management across its stores it turned to Zebra Technologies to revolutionise its back-end management system. Customers want immediate fulfilment.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Delivery management platform, Scurri , today reported an increase in the total gross merchandising value (GMV) of goods processed through its platform, which totalled over €12 billion in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Another key challenge for Hot Topic’s inventory management system is ensuring its BOPIS options run smoothly even as it fulfills orders across multiple channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation. System Automation.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Amazon is creating a $1 billion venture investment program, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF), with the goal of supporting innovation in customer fulfillment, logistics and the supply chain. Amazon is primarily interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy and other emerging technologies. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Majid Al Futtaim , the exclusive franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the United Arab Emirates, has opened a fully automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) at the Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

BOPIS Fulfillment Options. How retailers fulfill BOPIS is the hot topic. A contactless way to fulfill BOPIS has become a public health necessity virtually overnight. As stores reopen and begin ramping up to full capacity, retailers will have to decide if they can realistically sustain and scale these fulfillment options.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

Catch is growing its logistics network with a new fulfilment centre to be built in Moorebank in south-west Sydney. The Sydney fulfilment centre will allows us to serve customers more quickly and efficiently, particularly in New South Wales and Queensland.”. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Walmart will open four next-generation fulfillment centers over the next four years as it seeks to reach 95% of the U.S. fulfillment center to create an environment that is more comfortable for associates, has double the storage capacity and can fulfill twice as many orders per day. population with next-day or two-day shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Nordstrom is sponsoring and helping to launch a new Product Management course track at Atlanta-based Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Morehouse College as part of its ongoing investments in Black talent. It’s critical that our product managers reflect the diverse group of customers we serve.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Great product diversity, changing consumer demands, and the expansion of e-commerce have turned inventory management into a major pain point for retailers. Poor inventory management results in overstocking and under-stocking, impaired cash flow, and losses from theft and spoilage. Here are some reasons why: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

is deploying a new order management system (OMS) as the home décor retailer seeks to offer a more modern omnichannel customer experience and improve in-store fulfillment. The retailer partnered with Manhattan Associates to implement its Manhattan Active Omni OMS to level up its sales, service and fulfillment operations.

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Wiser

APRIL 16, 2024

Category management in retail has evolved significantly over the past two decades, reflecting broader changes in technology, consumer behavior, and market dynamics. Ten to 20 years ago, category management was primarily focused on optimizing the assortment, shelf placement, and stock levels of products within physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As it turned out, the solution already was in motion: Loblaw had partnered with Takeoff Technologies and was in the process of rolling out a robotic Micro Fulfillment Center (MFC) when COVID-19 reached Canada. This is both in terms of our capacity to accept the increased demand for orders, as well as our ability to fulfill these orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This trend has already become evident with curbside pickup, which has become one of the fastest-growing models within fulfillment. With the proper technology and management, any business can quickly and seamlessly adopt this innovative and growing service. But implementation hasn’t been easy on retailers. Guy Bloch is CEO of Bringg.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2022

To meet growing demand and manage an increased inventory, pureplay retailer Booktopia has signed a lease agreement to move its customer fulfilment centre (CFC) to South Strathfield in Sydney. The post Booktopia moves customer fulfilment centre to Sydney’s west appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Amazon is adding 125,000 new warehouse and transportation jobs as it seeks to staff up the 350 fulfillment centers, sortation centers, regional air hubs and delivery stations it has opened this year, 100 of which will open in September alone.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Oculogx , an omnichannel order fulfillment solution provider, has launched a suite of products designed to improve order fulfillment speed and accuracy. Outline: A mobile order fulfillment application that can be used on employees’ own devices. Associates can communicate with the software through voice and gestures.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional fulfilment has been evolving for a long time. Forward-thinking retailers have always been looking for engaging ways to help their businesses stand out via their fulfilment options. As e-commerce continues to make inroads, balancing the challenges and opportunities of online fulfilment remains key.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2022

The pace of technology can sometimes overtake us, however, and many “traditional” ERP and account management systems are not optimised for e-commerce. The post Australia’s best-kept e-commerce secret reshaping fulfilment systems appeared first on Inside Retail. For further information, contact enquiry@eiz.com.au

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At the same time, they also realised that managing an e-commerce business comes with its own challenges and requires a different set of tools. Some of the biggest hurdles they faced were developing strategies to keep up with customer demand and order fulfilment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Walmart will test combining store/fulfillment center locations at four existing stores, using them as test beds for new technology, digital tools and physical enhancements. The stores will focus on implementing new tools that can help speed up both customer service and order fulfillment. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

The early-season surge can be attributed to shoppers’ awareness of potential shipping delays , which also made omnichannel fulfillment a winning solution during that final rush: stores with curbside or in-store pickup options captured 62% of global sales during the Dec. 18 and Dec. 18-31 window. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale Club is replacing its legacy order management system with Nextuple OMS Studio, which includes three “Tuples” — each an ordered set of microservices that the retailer can mix and match to create solutions for flexible fulfillment.

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