Hyperlocal Fulfillment

In this white paper Patrick Sedlak, Principal at Sedlak Management Consultants, and John Seidl, Partner at GreyOrange Strategic Solutions, provide insights on how to develop the roadmap in support of a micro-fulfillment strategy that leverages advanced automation and robotics to address the immediate needs of the market and consumers.

This e-book looks at how COVID-19 has become a major disruptor and is accelerating the need for automated e-grocery fulfillment.

This article breaks down what a hyperlocal e-commerce business is and what you can expect to see in the next couple of years.

This white paper explains how hyperlocal fulfillment, also known as micro-fulfillment, works and detail the benefits as well as some of the risks, you will have a better understanding of whether it might be a solution for your operations.

A recent survey shows that only a very few supply chain managers, about 14 percent, are even aware of adopting a micro-fulfillment model option.

Hyperlocal fulfillment takes advantage of shorter delivery distances to increase the speed of order fulfillment and reduce delivery costs, and it leverages underutilized retail and urban real estate to offset the costs of larger DCs on the periphery.

In this article and resulting white paper, we look at the challenges giving rise to the hyperlocal fulfillment trend, and why they must be addressed, we explain how hyperlocal fulfillment also known as micro-fulfillment works, look at the logistics implications and detail the benefits as well as some of the risks.