An Order Management System Can Increase Your Sales Conversion

Your order management system (OMS) is the brain orchestrating a successful delivery of your product into your customer’s hands. But what if I told you you should rethink the role of OMS in your sales funnel? If you are not thinking about how your OMS can improve customer experience and impact sales, you should.

Orchestrating a perfect customer experience from order to delivery will bring back repeat customers, that is just table stakes. If implemented well, your OMS can drive conversions long before the order is placed. Here are the top ways your OMS can impact your sales funnel:

Leverage OMS to get real-time inventory updates

Giving your customers access to real-time inventory availability that drives them to the store to purchase means that you have an intent purchaser entering your store ready to buy. There is a +50% chance that they will buy more products when they get there.

Buy online pick up in-store (BOPIS) or Click and Collect

Telling a customer that they can buy online and pick up in store is not as simple as it sounds. It requires commerce and order management systems to work together with the right store processes and systems to support fulfillment. If done well, it has a world of benefits from saving shipping costs to higher in store purchases.

Now imagine using real-time inventory and BOPIS together. Let’s call it a Click and Collect Nudge. Your customer is checking in-store inventory, their product’s stock levels are low at their target store. Now imagine an alert in their browser telling them to reserve their item to avoid disappointment. Sale made.

Low Inventory or Number of Purchases Alerts

Similar to the BOPIS example above, letting customers know that their beloved product is low in stock or that 1000 people purchased it in the last hour will create FOMO (fear of missing out). It will drive consumers to purchase the product especially if they don’t know if or when it will be back in stock.

Cross Sell and Upsell Opportunities

Your OMS is full of data. It can provide insights into customer preferences, and products often purchased together. This information can tell you what products to put near each other in store, what recommendations should be made to customers when purchasing a product, and what bundles would be most advantageous for you to offer your customers.

Getting a customer to come back to purchase more can also be facilitated with the data from your OMS. Replenishment recommendations or after-market parts, personalized product offerings are all driven from your OMS data.

The items above are just a few examples of how an order management system can drive sales conversions. There are others, the first step is for you to stop thinking about your OMS as simply an order fulfillment system. Need help? Contact us to help you with your OMS transformation.

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