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Retail giants are tackling the last-mile delivery challenge head-on! 🚚📦 Discover how major retailers are innovating to overcome the delivery squeeze in this insightful article by SupplyChainDive. Read more: (https://ow.ly/Q7XN50SjHYp) #SupplyChain #LastMileDelivery #RetailInnovation #Logistics #DeliverySolutions

Walmart Home Delivery is on Fire! Check out Max Garlands article on Walmart delivery costs and see for yourself how the retail giant is on a roll when it comes to their Home Delivery initiatives: 1) They are reducing their Home Delivery unit costs via improved scale/higher volume. 2) Store fulfilled delivery sales were up 50% in Q4. 3) The continued introduction of new store-based fulfillment automation will further drive improved efficiencies and lower delivery cost. Most importantly for Walmart, Amazon can't come close to replicating Walmart's store footprint, allowing Walmart to source the final mile Home Delivery closer to the customer and support a simple and clean returns process for the consumer. This allows the original ecommerce customer to engage in crossover purchasing when they go to the store to tender a return shipment. Finally, this trend does not bode well for UPS/FedEx and helps to explain volume declines at both carriers. Amazon is not the only threat to these 2 legacy parcel carrier giants and don't forget that Walmart already has one of the largest private trucking fleets on the planet. Advantage WALMART!!! #UPS #usps #walmart #target #FedEx #ecommerce #homedelivery #lastmiledelivery Ian Kerr Perry Lavergne Max Garland

Always good to stay in the Know: FedEx has just revealed its own commerce platform for retailers, stepping up the game and intensifying the competition with Amazon. The landscape is evolving, and it's fascinating to witness these major players making strategic moves. Check out the article for insights into the future of e-commerce. #FedEx #CommercePlatform #EvolvingRetail

56% of retailers say #shippingcost is their most significant #fulfillment challenge: https://bit.ly/3PMFF13 👈 Reid Bishop, PhD shows how a #WMS quickly fixes this! #warehousemanagmentsystem #shippingrates #shopcarriers #orderfulfillment #supplychainmanagement

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) started in 2009 but only 150k sellers are selling in WFS as a third-party seller. Yeah, the numbers are not so high as Walmart always wants a seller to meet their rules and regulations. This retail giant has expanded its marketplace to allow third-party sellers to offer products alongside its inventory. The sales potential in Walmart is so vast as they have an extensive customer base. Approved sellers can list products across various categories, leveraging Walmart's established logistics network for fulfillment. Sellers can choose between self-fulfillment or utilizing Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS), akin to Amazon's FBA, for streamlined storage, shipping, and packing. But WFS reduces logistical burdens and improves customer satisfaction with quicker shipping times. Walmart has a robust analytics and advertising algorithm for its sellers. So being a Walmart seller has a lucrative opportunity to tap into a vast retail ecosystem as it's directly helping the sellers reach millions of potential customers daily. #walmart #wfs #walmartautomation #walmartdropshipping #walmartwfs #walmarttoamazon #walmartseller #walmartstore #walmartmarketplace #amazon #walmartapproval

✅What is Walmart WFS? Walmart WFS (Walmart Fulfillment Services) is a fulfillment service offered by Walmart that allows third-party sellers to store their products in Walmart's fulfillment centers. Walmart then handles the packing, shipping, returns, and customer service for those products, similar to how Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) works. 💥How Does WFS Work? 🔰Product Storage: Sellers send their products to Walmart’s fulfillment centers, where the items are stored until they are sold. 🔥Order Fulfillment: When a customer places an order, Walmart handles the entire fulfillment process, including picking, packing, and shipping the products directly to the customer. 🥇Customer Service: Walmart manages all customer service inquiries related to shipping, handling returns, and refunds for WFS orders. 💥Fast Shipping: Products fulfilled by WFS are eligible for Walmart's two-day shipping, helping to increase sales and customer satisfaction. 🔰Integration: Sellers can easily integrate WFS with their existing Walmart Marketplace account, making it a seamless process to start using the service. #walmart #walmartWFS #walmartOrderFulfillment #walmartFastShipping #walmartWFSOrders #walmartWalmartMarketplace

FedEx Allows Walmart Marketplace Retailers to Access Deep Walmart Pricing Discounts for FedEx Ground. Historically, FedEx would practically never extend deep discounts to a parent organization and then allow that pricing to be passed through to the parent’s customers. In this case, FedEx is allowing Walmart to extend their highly discounted Ground pricing program to their marketplace customers that self-fulfill. FedEx had to do this for two reasons: 1)    UPS was already allowing this practice with Walmart. 2)    Amazon is aggressively pursuing the shipping business of Amazon marketplace customers that self-fulfill via UPS or FedEx, which is resulting in the loss of some shipping business to Amazon. Check out Max Garland’s attached article for additional details. This is an example of both UPS and FedEx having to extend aggressive Ground discounts to an on-line retailer to try and stay even with Amazon Shipping (Shipping with Amazon) poaching their existing Amazon marketplace merchants that self-fulfilled via UPS and FedEx. It is safe to assume that the carrier margins on these shipments are horrible. #walmart #amazon #target #ups #fedex #fedexground #usps #ecommerce #homedelivery Perry Lavergne Ian Kerr Max Garland

'How big retailers are battling the last-mile delivery squeeze 🚚💪 Walmart, Target and Kroger executives pointed to price and technology improvements that they are using to offset cost pressures 💡💰#RetailIndustry #Logistics #TechnologyAdvancements' by Retail Dive about Walmart

Our Supply Chain Matters retail industry perspectives during 2023, and especially on the Q4 holiday fulfillment quarter, centered on three bellwether retailers that would best influence the industry's customer fulfillment, logistics and inventory management strategies. They were Amazon, Walmart and Target. In February, Amazon reported a blowout Q4 and 2023 financial performance based primarily on efforts to realign customer fulfilment and inventory deployment strategies closest to customer populations. This week, Walmart reported its financial performance, which were very well received by investors, and which demonstrated that deploying inventory and online customer fulfillment from physical stores have resulted in decreased fulfillment costs. The retailer crossed $100 billion while reducing inventory levels by a reported 4.5 percent. https://lnkd.in/eEu_KdJy