Flexible fulfillment facilitates order picking. The idea arose from the need for a supply chain that was flexible enough to prepare and dispatch orders from any distribution center or physical store.
How do you define flexible fulfillment?
The prevalence of e-commerce has made it difficult to manage the fluctuating demands of individual customers. Indeed, companies find themselves obliged to cope with either a drop or a sudden increase in orders. To remedy this problem, we have adopted flexible fulfillment for greater inventory and sales control.
Flexible fulfillment is a logistics strategy adopted by our company Rolls Rapide. It aims to facilitate the preparation of complex orders, enabling them to be dispatched from one of our distribution centers, warehouses or stores.
The main objective is to ensure delivery of all your orders. In order not to damage our brand image by cancelling purchases due to lack of stock, some profitability may be sacrificed for hand delivery. Therefore, flexible logistics that can respond to fluctuations in customer demand is essential.
Order picking cart
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How does Rolls Rapide help you achieve flexible fulfillment?
Flexible logistics are essential to meet the needs of our customers and distribution centers. Each warehouse or center must be able to handle orders that were not originally allocated.
Companies with several distribution centers in different locations, such as Rolls Rapide, are transforming and changing their logistics strategies. If the specified warehouse is out of stock, it will be marked as such and the customer will not be able to buy it, resulting in lost sales even if it is in stock in another warehouse.
On the other hand, if we work to a flexible fulfillment strategy, our inventory will appear to be available in all countries as long as the product is actually in one of our company locations.
We can deliver your order no matter how far it is from the chosen distribution center. In all cases, our aim is to satisfy our customers with the product they have ordered.
Benefits of flexible fulfillment
Flexible fulfillment is one of the most important strategies in supply chains. Flexibility is synonymous with adaptability, and in logistics this means having the warehousing systems and processes in place to meet customer and industry demands.
With this in mind, we tend to use our physical stores as distribution centers. It's a strategy known as store-to-ship. This means that your orders can be packed and dispatched if the store has the products in stock. Our stores can also be used as general order collection points as part of our omnichannel strategy.
Do I need warehouse management software?
Flexible logistics strategies mean handling large volumes of products, which complicates the task. To exploit this, we have warehouse management software that connects all our company's distribution centers, giving us full product traceability.
Greater flexibility in the supply chain makes order preparation and transport more expensive, but also attracts new buyers, builds customer loyalty, and increases the flexibility and modularity of logistics.
If your company is losing sales because your assigned warehouse is out of stock, or if you think it's time for your distribution centers to work together to ship more orders, contact Rolls Rapide.
Our team of experts can help you implement the warehouse management solution you need to prepare your orders and increase the flexibility of your supply chain.
