Our order fulfillment price includes receiving, picking and delivery per product. Your only other cost is storage.
From all your Ecommerce sites, we integrate your your orders and stock, and then implement your shipment options for rapid order turnaround, performance, and offer benefits for you and your customers.
eCommerce has been mainly populated by large footprint Distribution companies set up to service large retail outlets, so pallets, forklifs and linehaul trucks are their territory. After 200 years of minding their knitting, Australia Post was confronted by a massive market upheaval, and have done well to meet that market. but the NEW market is being forced to fit the legacy business practices and cost structures. Click and collect has been relatively successful, but the cost of this benefit is not sustainable.
The Distribution industry is BIG – huge warehouses, massive equipment investment, forklifts, pallets – picking pencils instead of pallets. Fulfilment in the eCommerce industry is granular. Instead of huge consignments to single locations, it’s single carton to many, many residential addresses.
Australia Post found itself in the box seat as eCommerce took off. Their only asset was their delivery network. Their liabilities were their bureaucratic structure, 20mm size, and lack of competition. staggering as their business grew dramatically, so did their costs, but they rewarded themselves with pay and bonuses