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Maximizing Direct To Consumer Order Fulfillment

As technological advances have made delivery of orders seamless for brands, so too have customer’s expectation transpired towards faster delivery at a lower shipping cost.
eCommerce businesses have felt the pressure to bolster their order fulfillment processes perhaps more than most other businesses. After all, online retailers need to compete not only with each other but in many cases, with traditional brick and mortar stores as well. Direct to consumer eCommerce business might look complicated, but many tools have become available to assist eCommerce brands.

 

Strategies you can adopt

Direct to consumer sector brings specific challenges that must be overcome in order to maximize success for your order fulfilment. In order to optimize your business, a few essential steps should first be taken. Here are some basic strategies you can start implementing into your business to streamline your direct-to consumer fulfillment.

 

Integration critical to success

Before you can make the most of your order fulfillment process, you first need to introduce an integrated approach to your various systems, from order capture onwards. Eliminating a siloed structure that keeps each element distinct and disconnected gives your business the ability to evaluate the order management and operation on a large scale, and this centralized view is absolutely imperative to boost your order fulfillment.

 

Adopt automation to optimize

When it comes to order fulfillment, accuracy and timeliness is critical. This is the reason your business needs to have a completely automated process in place for everything from pricing to fulfillment. This will lend you the competitive advantage that will help you boost your business and also provide the precision to keep customer satisfaction sky – high. You’ll also be better prepared when order demand requires a high level of performance than you could previously manage to tackle.

 

Implement location-based strategies

Much of order fulfillment hinges on where your customer is based. Using location data as an essential part of your operation can guide you in deciding where to route deliveries, including local retailers who may be better positioned to meet the demand for faster delivery. In several cases, this may result in improving the status of your platform and also in trimming the cost as a result.

 

Consider Order streaming

Order streaming enables your business to adjust its workload to not only warehouse conditions but also high-priority orders. A tool that focusses on customer expectations, order streaming manages equipment and other resources as well as streamlines the period between order capture and fulfilment. This has tremendous potential to help you maximize efficiency of your business and provide better service to your customer base.

 

Brand development through personalization

You might wonder about the connection between personalization and brand development with that of successful order fulfillment, but increased options and the ability to easily capture and employ data help you boost brand loyalty and the likelihood of follow up orders. Fulfillment starts with the mission of building and establishing connect with your customer that blossoms into a long-lasting relationship. It is never only about providing a faster fulfillment solution.