At a time when internet retail sales are already at a record high, the anticipated spike in online orders expected to be generated by this Autumn’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales season will mean that fulfillment companies and their courier partners are likely to find themselves under greater …
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Picking storage for an omnichannel world
Edward Hutchison, managing director of Bito Storage Systems, explains how order picking and storage systems are the core of a successful omnichannel retail fulfilment strategy Omnichannel retail is imposing a radical shift in logistics practices. When you drill right down to the core of the …
Black Friday Expert Comment
Just one week to BLACK FRIDAY! Several AMA clients offer solutions or advice geared to help companies deal with this retail and logistics phenomenon and other spikes in demand throughout the year. Should you be seeking comment on these issues and potential logistics, supply chain, distribution …
Let technology tame your Black Friday beast
Seasonal or event-related retail ‘spikes’ such as Black Friday are becoming ever more extreme, and can seriously affect even supply chains that are not directly involved. To help companies deal with fearsome spikes in demand that may also occur throughout the year, Access Group has published a new …
Solution for Black Friday is in the bag
Huge spikes in demand created by big single-day retailing events, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are putting retail supply chains under enormous stress. Dematic has found a solution that counters ‘mega peaks’ with ‘super flexibility’. Last November an imported US retailing phenomenon …
Just how prepared for Black Friday are you?
By Nigel Greenslade, Director of BiS spaceXchange UK retailers were sent reeling last November when British shoppers spent online an estimated £810 million in one day, due to a new retail phenomenon imported from the US dubbed Black Friday. According to the UK’s industry association for …
