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A lot more goes into successful order fulfillment than shelves of neatly stacked products. There is an art and a science to pick and pack methods.
Good inventory management and the right pick and pack software will help you ship orders with maximum speed and accuracy.
Here is your ultimate guide to pick and pack methods.
Continue reading “The Ultimate Guide to Pick and Pack Methods!”The pandemic saw the restaurant industry face challenges like never before, with most being forced to close for a substantial period and, when allowed to re-open once more, having to operate under new restrictions, ensuring social distancing was being maintained for example.
The crisis forced many restaurants and bars out of business; those that survived often did so by deploying innovative and inventive new systems and ideas to stay afloat.
For the restaurants that made it through the pandemic, things will likely never be the same again. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Continue reading “How Covid Changed the Restaurant Industry!”Everyone knows that the cannabis industry is a boom market: it’s worth $7.3B in the U.S., and expected to reach $24.5B by 2020. Closer to home in Canada, sales are expected to reach $5.7 billion by 2020 creating cannabis challenges as a result.
Banks like BMO are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis companies, and publically-traded producers like Aphria, Aurora, Canopy Growth Corp, MedReleaf and others are spooling up massive operations ahead of legalization in October 2018.
Continue reading “Challenges in the Cannabis Supply Chain!”Radio-frequency identification (RFID) monitoring systems involve attaching tags to specific objects so you can track, monitor, and collect data for them. RFID monitoring systems have a variety of uses and are implemented in a broad array of businesses and organisations.
One industry that can significantly benefit from RFID technology is retail. This is an industry that is continuously evolving and, if retailers want to stay competitive, they need to be doing everything they can to offer the best customer experience possible.
From helping design your store layout to monitoring your inventory, making sure no documents get lost and tracking assets, read on for four ways you can use an RFID monitoring system in your retail business in 2021.
Continue reading “Ways to Use RFID in Retail!”For the past decade or so, the blockchain has been slowly but surely infiltrating our lives. What started as the domain of cryptocurrency has now become a tool for all kinds of applications, from logistics to healthcare. And as its technology continues to evolve, so too does its potential impact on our lives.
In this article, we will explore the effects of blockchain on modern consumerism. From supply chains to data security, read on to learn more about the effects of blockchain and how it is changing the way we shop and consume.
Continue reading “The Effects of Blockchain on Modern Consumerism!”Signage does far more than simply advertise your business name—the sign’s style and color can say a lot about your brand, and it’s also a reason why businesses are going with channel letter signs.
The three-dimensional design helps channel letters stand out from other types of business signage. Mounted on exterior building walls, channel letters and numbers easily identify your business.
Along with making your business easily identifiable, there are other benefits associated with using channel letters. Let’s take a closer look at some of them and see why channel letter signs are a great option for showcasing the name of your business.
Continue reading “The Benefits of Channel Letter Signs!”It doesn’t take a genius to see that the retail industry has changed over the past decade and a half. The arrival of Amazon and other eCommerce platforms on the scene has caused a sea change in the way people shop. Is the Retail industry melting down?
Retailers have increasingly been forced to sink or swim based not on marketing or product differentiation – as in the past – but on the success of their Supply Chains and eCommerce operations.
It’s kind of a wild west, and the most successful players being those who can harness Omnichannel distribution, and avoid excess inventory that will leave them in the dust.
Continue reading “Is The Retail Industry Melting Down?”There is nothing new about warehousing. Written records from ancient civilizations refer to the storage of items in bulk so that they can be used at a later date. The Bible records Egyptian people storing the surplus of agricultural goods so that they could be used in times of famine.
Whilst a modern commercial warehouse clearly does a lot more than stockpiling food, the principle remains, including the warehouse role in fulfilment.
Merchandise warehousing can be defined as “the storage of commodities and products for profit”. Here we take a closer look at the role that a fulfilment warehouse plays in the modern distribution process.
Continue reading “What is the Warehouse Role in Fulfilment?”
Every stage of the logistics process of delivering goods is crucial from the time a parcel leaves the hands of the Sender up to the moment it arrives at its destination. This is called last mile delivery.
While each step of the way should be taken seriously, there is no point more high-priority than that of the last mile delivery stage, where the goods from a transportation hub move to their final delivery destination.
The goal of last mile delivery is to transport an item to its recipient in the quickest way possible. This has been driven by the continuously evolving market and demand for convenient customer experience across industries such as e-commerce, food, retail and many more.
Continue reading “Last Mile Delivery Explained! (Infographic)”Due to the intense competition and quick pace of the apparel industry, it’s no surprise that new apparel trends and styles appear with each passing season.
This essentially means that companies that operate in the apparel industry must be able to quickly change and update their latest apparel collections to stay relevant to their prospective customers and remain competitive.
And in order to achieve that, companies in the apparel industry need to have a dependable and efficient inventory management system in place to stay one step ahead of their competitors in a market that moves so swiftly and places such high demands on its participants.
Continue reading “4 Reasons the Apparel Industry Needs an Inventory Management System!”Amazon has set the benchmark for Last Mile Delivery. With massive Distribution Centres within a short distance of every major population centre they are able to offer fast delivery of virtually any product they sell. The Amazon Prime Now service promises delivery within 1 hour.
Amazon Fresh is their grocery delivery option and with their Whole Foods acquisition they are obviously planning for rapid delivery. Amazon Go is their Retail store option. Amazon Key is their in home delivery service. And the Amazon promise of drone delivery will further cement their leadership in the Last Mile Delivery race.
So how do you compete with that? What are your options? And what is your Strategy?
Continue reading “Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy?”People who do not work in Supply Chain may hear the terms Fulfillment and Replenishment and consider that they mean the same thing.
Interestingly many people who do work in Supply Chain consider the terms Fulfillment and Replenishment to be synonymous.
I have worked in many different industries and all around the world but the place where I heard these terms used most frequently was in Retail.
Given that there is some ambiguity in the understanding of these terms it makes sense to provide the distinction.
What is the difference between Fulfillment and Replenishment?
Continue reading “What’s the Difference Between Fulfillment and Replenishment?”Last-mile delivery visibility is key to business success. In fact, 93% of customers say they want to be informed with increased visibility throughout the entire delivery journey, from in-transit status through to final arrival date.
Moreover, 47% of customers refuse to even place a second order with a business with poor delivery visibility. By improving last-mile visibility with cutting-edge analytics software, you can boost your business’ productivity and customer satisfaction and loyalty, as well as benefit from accurate KPI benchmarking.
Continue reading “Key Benefits of Increased Visibility in Last Mile Delivery!”There’s another unfortunate entry in the annals of Supply Chain failures that burst into the wider world of business and pop culture: More than half of the UK’s Kentucky Fried Chicken stores recently closed because KFC ran out of chicken!
We’ve written on the Argentus’ blog many times about Supply Chain misadventures, and how they can harm a brand’s reputation as well as profits – for example, maybe most memorably, in the case of Target, which had to retreat from the Canadian market after Supply Chain snafus led to empty shelves and disappointed customers.
Continue reading “KFC Ran Out of Chicken! What Supply Chain Lessons Can We Learn?”There is no denying the fact that the rise of e-commerce has changed the buying habits of consumers and customer shipping. Gone are the days when folks would have to go to physical stores to purchase what they need.
With the help of technology, businesses have brought their products and services to the people through their Internet-connected mobile devices. This has created a demand for same-day and express shipping to deliver goods as fast as they are ordered.
While this has increased convenience and customer satisfaction, same-day delivery involves some important and rather complex factors that have to be executed seamlessly to achieve the desired results.
Continue reading “9 Steps to Create a Seamless Customer Shipping Experience!”
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