Are returns taking the ‘Merry’ out of your Christmas sales?
The ease of the shopping experience combined with buying without trying inevitably leads to consumers exchanging or returning products. And returns are notably more frequent during the holiday season.
Is the prospect of having to deal with returns spoiling your holiday sales excitment? We’ve enlisted a few strategies to help you drive profit from returns this season:
Video: New Zealand Online Consumers
Google Infographic: NZ Consumer Behaviour
We just had to share this excellent resource, compiled by Google, with a succint analysis of NZ Consumer behaviour.
Is your business catering to consumers who live online?
Have you considered e-commerce order fulfilment as a business?
The demand for transport and logistics as a service is growing, driven by the rise of online shopping. This opens an opportunity for retailers and transportation companies alike, to broaden their service offerings to include storage and fulfilment. However, there is more to becoming a 3PL than just adding "Logistics" to the company’s name.
5 Top Benefits of Voice Picking
As voice has grown in popularity in many people’s personal lives, it has also become more common in the warehouse. Today, millions of warehouses across the world are running their picking processes, receiving, put-away, interleaving and more with voice.
Best practices for warehouse inventory management
Top trends that are shaping the supply chain of the future
New technologies are reinventing supply chains, by digitally connecting every single manufacturing, fulfiling and distributing process in a holistic view. Software solutions and networked devices are significantly boosting efficiency and productivity.
We’ve enlisted the top trends that are shaping the supply chain of the future:
How can technology help SMBs to create a competitive advantage?
Meeting today’s consumer expectations is no small feat. To effectively manage shrinking time to delivery windows, fulfil omnichannel orders and enable drop-ship commerce, staff need instant access to supply chain data and the ability to act on it quickly and easily. This is particularly challenging for small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) considering tight resources and competitive pressures.
Video: top 5 last-mile delivery strategies
Infographic: 5 top strategies for last-mile delivery
Can a brick-and-mortar store function as a DC to meet omnichannel demands?
Top benefits of running an Automated Dynamic Supply Chain
Video: What is Omnichannel Retail?
Can your DC benefit from a Labour Management Software?
Labour is one of the biggest overhead costs in warehouse and distribution operations. Yet, most warehouses cannot operate without a host of floor staff such as packers and pickers. In the world of ever shrinking delivery windows and ever growing customer expectations, effective warehouse and DC labour management is paramount. To remain profitable, businesses are trying to achieve the highest level of productivity with the lowest headcount possible.
Why is adaptability crucial when choosing a Warehouse Management Software?
Finding a complete supply chain solution that can adapt to and evolve with your business can be an expensive, laborious task.
But what if you could change the way your supply chain software worked to better fit your business? What if your own IT team could make these changes without modifying source code or disturbing the normal flow of your operations?
Is the drive towards delivery AVs going to help or hinder last-mile delivery?
Top 5 benefits of WMS carrier integration
Whether you store your retail or wholesale inventory in your own warehouses, or you are a third-party logistics company responsible for fulfilment and distribution of external clients’ products, you depend on one or multiple carriers to deliver your goods.
We have enlisted the 5 top benefits of having an integrated Application Programming Interface (API) with carriers:
Selecting the right picking method can transform your warehouse
Picking is the part of the fulfilment process that can directly either enhance or jeopardize customer satisfaction, so you should regularly review the efficiency of the methods you’re currently using, noting their strengths and weaknesses.
Is it time for your business to review and/or streamline its picking method?
Are you using the best e-commerce fulfilment strategy to support your business?
The incredible pace of adoption of internet retail and omnichannel is not only changing consumer purchasing behaviour, it is triggering fundamental operational changes for companies.
How do you succeed in this new economy where retailer and wholesalers need to reinvent themselves to compete (or comply) with giants like Walmart and Amazon? You need the right business processes and solutions that will support and scale with your company’s growth.