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BJ’s Enhances Inventory Operations with Microservices-Based Solution

Retail TouchPoints

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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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. And the percentage of respondents that don’t sell on or operate marketplaces shrank this year, from 16% in 2022 to 9% in 2023.

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Asda Fortifies Omnichannel Approach by Updating OMS and Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

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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Ikea Improves Forecast Accuracy with AI-Powered Demand Sensing

Retail TouchPoints

The AI-powered demand sensing technology is designed to examine short-term demand patterns across various channels using customer insights, market events, pricing, campaigns, localized weather reports, external economic factors and other critical data points to better understand and predict consumer preferences over time.

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Master Your Stock: A retailer’s blueprint for improving inventory health

Fabric

Tim Cook, CEO at Apple For retailers, improving inventory health sounds simple enough. Overstock not only impacts cash flows, it often translates to higher warehousing costs and operational costs, and potentially builds up dead stock that you may need to liquidate or write off at a financial loss. “Inventory is fundamentally evil.

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Order Routing: The simplest and fastest way to optimize fulfillment—without writing code

Fabric

With fabric OMS, any retail operator can configure order routing rules to reduce order errors, get closer to customers, and reduce shipping expenses. As businesses grow, so does the complexity of allocating resources to fulfill customer orders across multiple locations. Determine which are the best locations to ship orders from.

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Best Fulfillment Center for Startups

Ecommerce Platforms

Running a startup is tough work, and in the ecommerce business, it often means fulfilling products from your own office, home, or even a garage. But at some point, you’ll want to find a fulfillment provider to offer faster shipping, and to focus on other parts of your business. The Best Fulfillment Centers for Startups.