Omnichannel & Fulfillment Resources
How All Things Omnichannel Work
How All Things Omnichannel Work Everything you need to know about Omnichannel What is the Omnichannel approach? The omnichannel approach to supply chain management offers integrated order fulfilment and distribution channels that effectively services consumers in...
CPG and Food Businesses Develop an Appetite for D2C Fulfillment
With the recent coronavirus outbreak, much has changed. From social media to journalists talking about supply chain and logistics, both consumers and companies now have a fundamental awareness of how the supply chain works. With the restrictions designed to help...
How Does Order Fulfillment Work?
Learn the order fulfillment steps from the manufacturer to the end customerLet’s start by getting an understanding of what ecommerce order fulfillment is. Here is an easy-to-understand Order fulfillment definition: Order fulfillment is the steps involved in...
2019 Update on the Latest Trends in Omnichannel Retail Part 2: Subscription Boxes
In our last blog in this series, we took a look at some of the trends and issues involved in omnichannel retail for the past year. Consumers today love personalization and convenience. This may be fueling interest in both subscription services and subscription...
2019 Update on the Latest Trends in Omnichannel Retail: Part 1
Over the past decade or so, the consumer class has expanded and evolved to have a powerful voice, one that has helped to transform the supply chain. As mobile phones and access to the Internet have become more affordable and consequently, more widely available,...
What is Going on in Last Mile Delivery, Omnichannel Retail and Transportation and Logistics?
Fast, low cost home delivery is no longer a “nice to have”, but rather a business essential. Today’s retailer needs to have excellent distribution, a solid online presence and the ability to execute same day delivery. Across the United States, the delivery network is...
Consumers Crave Fast, Affordable Meal Kit Fulfillment
Nearly five years ago, meal kit companies appeared to be market disruptors launched with the potential of changing how Americans ate, a threat to the $650 billion U.S. grocery industry. Initially meal kit delivery companies had a simplified formula for success by...
2018 Hottest U.S. Fulfillment Markets: Phoenix
Status of U.S. e-commerce fulfillment warehouse markets During the start of the e-commerce ramp up, the heaviest activity with respect to industrial real estate facilities involved in fulfillment warehouse and distribution operations occurred in major metropolitan...
2018 Hottest U.S. Retail & E-Commerce Fulfillment Markets
In an earlier blog posted on April 19, 2018, we took a look at the effect that e-commerce has had on the industrial real estate market, specifically as it relates to warehouse, fulfillment and distribution center facilities. Interestingly enough, as compared to that...
Omnichannel Fulfillment: Transforming Supply Chain Management
Omnichannel retail is an integrated approach that makes sure that consumers have a consistent, unified experience across both online and offline channels. To consumers, the customer experience is paramount. Whether the consumer shops online, in a brick and mortar...
Warehouse Tips for Optimal E-commerce Omnichannel Fulfillment
Running a warehouse in today’s fast-paced consumer-driven environment can be challenging. Whether you work for an Amazon warehouse, candy warehouse or 3PL, keeping costs down while making sure that your operation has speedy, accurate order fulfillment is crucial to...
Supply Chain Technology & the Omnichannel Customer Experience
Consumers and the Omnichannel Customer Experience You do not need to be an Amazon Prime member to know that most consumers today order online, often from several different channels. It seems like consumers are using Google and mobile devices to search for everything...
Making Waves: 5 Companies Changing the World of Logistics, Last Mile Delivery and E-Commerce Fulfillment
Issues involving the supply chain, last mile logistics and delivery are hot these days. Package delivery and parcel carriers combined with courier and delivery companies as well as other supply chain and logistics industry companies such as warehouse and storage...
What Makes Supply Chain Companies Start Looking for a New WMS?
Q&A with Datex Blog From time to time, we will post a blog that provides answers to some of the questions Datex team members are most frequently asked. Feel free to email us, call us or send us suggestions for our blog via web chat. We would love to hear from...
11 Ways 3PLs are Helping Retailers & Manufacturers Today
During 2016, logistics and freight operations professionals enabled U.S. businesses to reduce costs for the first time since 2009. This is an impressive result, especially given the explosive demand fueled by the e-commerce sector and the overcapacity, slack demand...
Amazon’s Fresh Approach to Online Grocery Shopping: Whole Foods
The news that Amazon is buying Whole Foods got me thinking. What do these two businesses have in common? What kind of synergy exists to fuel this new strategic alliance? Both Amazon and Whole Foods pride themselves on high rates of customer satisfaction. The two...
Major Retailers Adopt Omnichannel Strategy
As shoppers become more tech-savvy and demand that retailers offer a more mobile, cross-functional shopping experience the retail industry as a whole has undergone a variety of drastic changes. In prior years traditional brick and mortar retailers saw steep declines...
How to Design a Flexible Distribution Center
Designing your distribution center to be flexible in not only space utilization, but operational processes, requires planning in multiple stages. The nature of distribution center operations has evolved with omni-channel retail and e-commerce growth. Evaluating your...
Last Mile Logistics Trends
The last mile logistics industry has evolved over time due to a variety of influencing factors, one of them being the popularity of e-commerce in consumer retail spending. Each year more and more sales typically made in brick-and-mortar stores are shifting to online....
How Last Mile Delivery Affects the Supply Chain, E-tailing & Order Fulfillment
Perfecting last mile delivery has had a significant impact on the supply chain, how retailers develop their e-commerce sites and how order fulfillment...
What is Last Mile Delivery? Part 2: Adapting to Retail and e-Commerce Order Fulfillment
The increasing popularity of omni-channel retailing has created many challenges for transportation and logistics providers servicing retailers. This has forced transportation operations to...
What is Last Mile Delivery?
Last mile delivery is defined as the movement of goods from a transportation hub to the final delivery destination. The final delivery destination is typically a personal residence. The...
Last Mile Delivery: Using Excellence in Delivery & Courier Service to Satisfy Demanding Consumers
The omni-channel supply chain is a complex, ever-evolving business unit. Retailers of all sizes struggle to maintain their base of loyal customers. This is...
2015 Order Management Concerns
As omni-channel becomes an industry standard, rather than a trend, many supply chain businesses are increasing in complexity. Most omni-channel retailers and their supply chain partners manage an average of three separate sales channels. The movement of inventory...
RFID Utilization in the Omnichannel Supply Chain
RFID is a type of automatic identification technology that transmits data wirelessly in the form of a unique serial number. The RFID network consists of a RFID tag,...
Supply Chain Labor Pool Issues 2015
The supply chain has increased in complexity and size in recent years which is affecting who and how the industry hires and how they train their employees during the onboarding process. These changes are due, in large part, to the adoption of omni-channel retailing,...
How to Avoid Order Fulfillment Disasters Part 2
For Big Box retailers and e-commerce businesses fulfilling orders quickly and cost effectively is a key differentiating factor that can capture new business and retain...
How to Avoid Order Fulfillment Disasters Part 1
Efficient order fulfillment is now and requirement rather than a desire for consumers as the increasing popularity of omni-channel retailing continues. Customer...
The Role of 3PLs in Warehousing & Distribution
Many retail and manufacturing operations that perform key supply chain functions in-house suffer from lack of resources to properly execute vital activities because of...
The How and Why of Crossdocking
Crossdocking is increasing in popularity among warehouses, distribution centers and third party logistics providers because it is an excellent way to combat increasing transportation...
Cross Docking 101: Top 10 Benefits of Cross Docking
Cross-docking is a great tool to have in your logistics tool belt. This service can be a key differentiator between you and your competition. In this short video we will review the top 10 benefits you and your customers may receive from offering cross-docking as a...
Cross Docking 101: When to Utilize Cross Docking
Cross-docking, while a fairly simple process, helps to increase operational efficiency in highly complex supply chains. Each business’ supply chain varies in complexity due to a multitude of factors. These factors determine how and when cross-docking should be used....
Top 4 Distribution Fulfillment Trends for 2015
Due to increasing levels of competition many businesses are looking to their customers to determine how to properly adapt their supply chain strategies to better...
Top 2015 Retail Fulfillment Trends
In 2015 retailers are adapting their supply chains to more efficiently and effectively meet customer needs. Some of these changes occur in their distribution and order...
How to Manage the Perfect Return
With the world of retailing slowly evolving towards the omni channel strategy, there are more factors to consider when making the customer experience more enjoyable. Distribution and...
How to Ensure Vendor Conformance to Meet Omni Channel Retail Needs
In an omni channel retail environment there are many moving parts working in unison. Each retail channel is a separate entity, but works in parallel and is...
Barriers to a Strong Omni Channel Retail Strategy
As an omni channel retail strategy has become the industry standard, retailers are making significant changes in their supply chains and technology to ensure they can properly meet consumer expectations. The main aspect of omni channel retailing is the ability to...
Online Buyer Behavior
Consumers have begun to leave the retail stores and started to go online. This forces retailers to adapt to the changes in buyer behavior, focusing more resources to online retail channels as well as their current brick and mortar retail channels. This has transformed...
Retailer Capabilities
The retailing industry is making an extreme strategy change from that of even a few years ago. Due to the boom of mobile technology retailers have learned the hard way that they can no longer satisfy shoppers with the one single retail strategy or even multiple that...
Retail Fulfillment Expectations
Online consumers are attempting to find differentiating factors between retailers now that the market has become so saturated with similar products or the same product offered by multiple retailers. One way consumers are choosing where to buy online is by the...
Retail and Social Media
As the omni channel retail strategy is becoming more and more prevalent retailers are trying to determine the best tools to reach their customers. Their tech savvy consumers make up a larger portion of their target market than ever before. These consumers are taking...
Changes in In-Store Shopping Behavior
While many retailers have seen a strong shift to online shopping rather than in store purchases, those that have truly developed and implemented an omni channel retail strategy have seen more consumers returning to their stores. One in three consumers bought more...
2014 Trends Reshaping the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
The pharmaceutical supply chain is undergoing tremendous changes. Numerous forces are re-shaping the new pharmaceutical ecosystem. Technology,...
Omni Channel vs. Multi Channel Retail Slideshare
Multi - channel retail provides consumers with a variety of platforms or channels to facilitate the sale of products including mobile, eCommerce and wholesale. These platforms operate...
Omni Channel Retailing in Warehousing and Distribution
Omni channel retailing is a distribution strategy where retail, wholesale and e-Commerce channels merge together to give consumers a seamless end-to-end experience...