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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. Knowing how much of each item is in stock at any moment, and forecasting how much inventory is needed, are critical components to holiday fulfillment success.

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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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Amazon Australia will now service New Zealand customers as well

Inside Retail

While the online marketplace launched in Australia in 2017, Kiwis have long needed to purchase goods from the US marketplace, according to the business, and will now be able to access faster delivery times from Australia’s warehouses. “We

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eBay Hires Former Meta Commerce Leader as Chief Product Officer

Retail TouchPoints

Garcia will report to eBay CEO Jamie Iannone and will manage the marketplace’s Core Product organization and cultivate tech-led reimagination to improve the user experience. “We Before joining Meta in November 2017, prior to its rebrand from Facebook , Jansen served on the boards of Culture Whisper, TMG and Trader Media East.

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What retailers can learn from Target US about doing their own deliveries

Inside Retail

US department store chain Target is testing a new fulfilment method that promises to speed up the delivery of online orders by using its own delivery drivers from Shipt, a same-day delivery platform the retailer acquired for US$550 million in 2017. The answer is yes, according to Nathan Bush, director of e-commerce strategy at eSuite.

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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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