Retail & Apparel

Increase Distribution Throughput and Flexibility

To say fashion moves quickly is an understatement. Speed to market is fundamental in the retail and apparel industry. Product lifecycles are short, so logistic solutions must be flexible, modular and scalable to meet consumer and industry demands.

The retail and apparel industry is changing daily, not just motivated by trends, but also by changing consumer behavior. Store traffic is decreasing, and online orders are on the rise. This impacts your shipping, replenishment and reverse logistics, triggering the need to optimize your onsite operations. Our automation solutions, such as goods to person storage and picking systems, make fulfillment and restocking fast, while software solutions like Exacta warehouse execution software give you visibility and business intelligence to make the necessary changes for peak season volume.

Further driven by ecommerce popularity, Bastian Solutions offers consulting and engineering services to deliver the optimal automation system to help you meet current and future business objectives and quickly adjust to changing market forces.
 

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Retail & Apparel Projects and Resources

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DICK'S Sporting Goods

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PUMA
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Best Buy

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Retail Strategy Guide

Industry Challenges

Speed to market and customer satisfaction has a large impact on the success of a retail and apparel company. Those challenges, however, can be broken down into the following:

  • Rapid order fulfillment
  • Management of reverse logistics
  • Decline of brick and mortar stores
  • Increase in ecommerce competition
  • Product seasonality coupled with general expiring and new product SKUs
  • Peak season volume and storage
  • Labor shortage
  • Decentralized distribution
 
DICK's Sporting Goods Omnichannel DC

Considerations

A smooth, consistent operation is ideal. As you explore potential solutions to your challenges, consider:

  • Product storage and sourcing – global vs. domestic
  • Arrival of goods – garment-on-hanger (GOH) or requiring setup
  • Store restocking - break-pack/sort to store, put to store
  • Reverse logistics – on-site or shipped back by consumer
  • Facility footprint amid rising real estate costs
  • In-person consumer traffic vs. ecommerce
 
Goods to Person Order Fulfillment

Solutions

Bastian Solutions works with you to analyze pain points and determine growth trends. Using a unique combination of services and technologies, your logistics and fulfillment systems can work smarter.

 
AutoStore System


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