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Blue Yonder Helps Retailers Manage Omnichannel Fulfillment Options

Retail TouchPoints

Blue Yonder has launched several microservices under its Luminate Commerce portfolio, with the goal of helping retailers meet the last mile demands of their customers. The individually deployable, augmentative microservices are designed to improve the shopper experience by helping retailers ensure order and fulfillment accuracy.

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Tune Order Management NOW To Create Stellar Customer Experiences This Holiday Season

Forrester eCommerce

Speed, Options, And Transparency Should Guide Holiday-Season Planning Retailers, get ahead of the holiday-season chaos and prepare your order management processes. Guide your holiday logistics planning around: 1) speed; 2) fulfillment options; and 3) transparency to create seamless and stellar experiences for your customers.

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Pacsun Taps External Partner to Streamline U.S. Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

Like many retailers, Pacsun is focusing on efficiency — and that means getting products to customers as quickly and easily as possible. The youth fashion and lifestyle brand is tapping Cart.com ’s logistics expertise and order and inventory management capabilities to support all its U.S. fulfillment operations.

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Walmart Debuts Second In-Store Fulfillment Center in Bentonville

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has opened an in-store Market Fulfillment Center (MFC) at Store 100 in its home town of Bentonville, Ark. MFCs will significantly increase the number of orders a store can fulfill in a day, according to a Walmart blog post , providing faster fulfillment with less substitutions and freeing up associates to help in-store customers.

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Ingka Group’s Ikea Stores to Adopt Fulfillment and Store Operations Solution

Retail TouchPoints

Inkga Group, owner and operator of 482 Ikea stores and ecommerce in 31 countries, will adopt a solution from Made4net to power fulfillment centers and store operations worldwide. The deployment follows the purchase of Made4net by Ingka Investments , the group’s investment arm.

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Coach CEO Q&A: New Las Vegas Fulfillment Center will Reduce Delivery Times by 50%+

Retail TouchPoints

To better serve a growing legion of West Coast customers, Tapestry , parent company of brands including Coach and Kate Spade , opened its 788,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Fulfillment Center in November. Tapestry already operates a fulfillment center serving the East Coast located in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs. in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.