Inner-city congestion and rising delivery costs. Increasing demand for instant fulfillment. Skyrocketing prices for conventional distribution center real estate. The rise of e-commerce. The four horsemen of the retail apocalypse have come together to give logistics managers a real nightmare.
How do you fulfill customer orders in this environment while still maintaining an acceptable profit margin?
Here's a hint. You don't always do it by continuing distribution operations out of remote, gigantic DCs. Over the past couple of years, logistics managers desperate to conquer the last-mile challenge have been trying out a new model that turns the old fulfillment model on its head.
Hyperlocal fulfillment is the concept that is emerging as a remedy to the challenges that are making order fulfillment increasingly dicult. It relies on small, numerous fulfillment centers, located in urban areas – either right downtown or close to the core – to stock and ship out goods for e-commerce orders.
By bringing the product closer to the customer, then creating and dispatching orders, those orders can be fulfilled faster, on a smaller footprint and can employ innovative final mile delivery solutions.
This paper will…
This white paper aims to provide a better understanding of whether it might be a solution for your operations.