Retail Distribution Centre Automation: Using Technology to Stay in the Game

Retail: A High-Speed, High-Stakes Business

Retail is moving at a pace we’ve never seen before. Not only is e-commerce creating an onslaught of orders, but the choices of solutions available to fulfill those orders are also multiplying rapidly.

It’s a high-speed, high-stakes game and you need to be thinking many moves ahead.

Today’s retail operations superstars are the ones who know where and when to employ not only the newest, fastest technologies but also tried and true.

For companies seeking to survive and excel in the current ‘retail apocalypse’, understanding the right technologies to employ in their supply chain operations is critical.

In this paper, we will look at this changing environment and the challenges it presents, and then show some of the automation options retailers are adopting in their distribution centers as a means of building the velocity, accuracy, and efficiency it takes to thrive on the retail battlefield.

The information we present here is intended to help inform your decision-making in the context of the massive challenges facing retailers.

At C3 Solutions we think it’s important for those considering different technologies to have as broad a perspective on the options as possible.

This paper is not about what we do; it does, however, explain how automated yard and dock management fits into the bigger picture of available DC automation.

Ultimately, we hope that you’ll take away a new perspective on technology and what it can do for your retail operation. As the saying goes, knowledge is power.