How do you think flipkart is also to bring efficiency in its supply chain .

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in alignment

with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The most
effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the company’s
overall business plans and goals. 

Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the problem,

the development of options and a sound decision to proceed. Tactical
decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.
Supply chain fullfillment assessment-:

  
The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  
No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?

How flipkart also to bring efficiency in its supply chain discuss in bellow-:

   
The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  

No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?
These questions address universal challenges, regardless of distribution or
warehouse size or the industries you serve.  

READ: How to Reduce Fulfillment Expenses by Streamlining

Your Supply Chain

10 Supply Chain strategies

1. Make the inbound Supply Chain more efficient

Regardless if you’re an omnichannel retailer or a pure play ecommerce

business, getting inbound products and materials on-time and as ordered is a
major initiative in many companies.  Your objective should be to receive the
product so that it can flow through to put away or be cross docked to fill
orders.  

1. Assess what current problems exist and what costs are absorbed in
reworking non-compliant receipts in both the fulfillment center and back
office. 
2. Determine which vendors cause the majority of the delay and cost
problems.  
3. Implement tighter computer systems between vendors and your
company through EDI.
4. Implement vendor compliance programs.
5. Determine what inbound and fulfillment activities such as ticketing, final
inspection can be done cheaper and faster upstream in Supply Chain.
6. Determine how receiving dock and truck yard congestion can be
reduced or eliminated.

 
The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  

No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?
These questions address universal challenges, regardless of distribution or
warehouse size or the industries you serve.  

READ: How to Reduce Fulfillment Expenses by Streamlining

Your Supply Chain

10 Supply Chain strategies

Each company’s Supply Chain and challenges are different, so strategies are
not a one-size-fits-all game.  Here are 10 major strategies we are consulting
on with multichannel ecommerce, wholesalers and distributors.  Only proper
assessment and alignment to your company’s goals make it the strategy for
you:  

1. Make the inbound Supply Chain more efficient

Regardless if you’re an omnichannel retailer or a pure play ecommerce

business, getting inbound products and materials on-time and as ordered is a
major initiative in many companies.  Your objective should be to receive the
 product so that it can flow through to put away or be cross docked to fill
orders.  

1. Assess what current problems exist and what costs are absorbed in
reworking non-compliant receipts in both the fulfillment center and back
office. 
2. Determine which vendors cause the majority of the delay and cost
problems.  
3. Implement tighter computer systems between vendors and your
company through EDI.
4. Implement vendor compliance programs.
5. Determine what inbound and fulfillment activities such as ticketing, final
inspection can be done cheaper and faster upstream in Supply Chain.
6. Determine how receiving dock and truck yard congestion can be
reduced or eliminated.

2. Lower shipping cost and delivery time

Your customers expect you to compete with Amazon in terms of delivery time
frames. Be responsive by getting their orders to them quicker and at a lower
shipping cost.  

1. Investigate multi-distribution center operation. Make sure to take into

account costs to set up the operation in terms of additional facilities, staffing,
and management.

The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  

No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?
These questions address universal challenges, regardless of distribution or
warehouse size or the industries you serve.  

READ: How to Reduce Fulfillment Expenses by Streamlining

Your Supply Chain

10 Supply Chain strategies

Each company’s Supply Chain and challenges are different, so strategies are
not a one-size-fits-all game.  Here are 10 major strategies we are consulting
on with multichannel ecommerce, wholesalers and distributors.  Only proper
assessment and alignment to your company’s goals make it the strategy for
you:  

1. Make the inbound Supply Chain more efficient

Regardless if you’re an omnichannel retailer or a pure play ecommerce

business, getting inbound products and materials on-time and as ordered is a
major initiative in many companies.  Your objective should be to receive the
 product so that it can flow through to put away or be cross docked to fill
orders.  

1. Assess what current problems exist and what costs are absorbed in
reworking non-compliant receipts in both the fulfillment center and back
office. 
2. Determine which vendors cause the majority of the delay and cost
problems.  
3. Implement tighter computer systems between vendors and your
company through EDI.
4. Implement vendor compliance programs.
5. Determine what inbound and fulfillment activities such as ticketing, final
inspection can be done cheaper and faster upstream in Supply Chain.
6. Determine how receiving dock and truck yard congestion can be
reduced or eliminated.

2. Lower shipping cost and delivery time

Your customers expect you to compete with Amazon in terms of delivery time
frames. Be responsive by getting their orders to them quicker and at a lower
shipping cost.  

1. Investigate multi-distribution center operation. Make sure to take into

account costs to set up the operation in terms of additional facilities, staffing,
and management.

3. Increase capacity of the existing warehouse

Moving to a new center is not always the answer. Without the proper layout
and design of your distribution center, no matter the square footage, you will
face capacity issues, decreased productivity, and storage inadequacies. By
addressing some basic principles, your company can delay a move to a new
facility. 

The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
 without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  

No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?
These questions address universal challenges, regardless of distribution or
warehouse size or the industries you serve.  

READ: How to Reduce Fulfillment Expenses by Streamlining

Your Supply Chain

10 Supply Chain strategies

Each company’s Supply Chain and challenges are different, so strategies are
not a one-size-fits-all game.  Here are 10 major strategies we are consulting
on with multichannel ecommerce, wholesalers and distributors.  Only proper
assessment and alignment to your company’s goals make it the strategy for
you:  

1. Make the inbound Supply Chain more efficient

Regardless if you’re an omnichannel retailer or a pure play ecommerce

business, getting inbound products and materials on-time and as ordered is a
major initiative in many companies.  Your objective should be to receive the
 product so that it can flow through to put away or be cross docked to fill
orders.  

1. Assess what current problems exist and what costs are absorbed in
reworking non-compliant receipts in both the fulfillment center and back
office. 
2. Determine which vendors cause the majority of the delay and cost
problems.  
3. Implement tighter computer systems between vendors and your
company through EDI.
4. Implement vendor compliance programs.
5. Determine what inbound and fulfillment activities such as ticketing, final
inspection can be done cheaper and faster upstream in Supply Chain.
6. Determine how receiving dock and truck yard congestion can be
reduced or eliminated.
READ: 11 Ways to Improve Dock to Stock Processes

2. Lower shipping cost and delivery time

Your customers expect you to compete with Amazon in terms of delivery time
frames. Be responsive by getting their orders to them quicker and at a lower
shipping cost.  

1. Investigate multi-distribution center operation. Make sure to take into

account costs to set up the operation in terms of additional facilities, staffing,
and management.

3. Increase capacity of the existing warehouse

Moving to a new center is not always the answer. Without the proper layout
and design of your distribution center, no matter the square footage, you will
face capacity issues, decreased productivity, and storage inadequacies. By
addressing some basic principles, your company can delay a move to a new
facility. 

1. Address the 28 key principles that you should consider for warehouse

layout design and productivity.
 4. Increase paperwork accuracy and decrease processing
time

One of the foundation technologies for warehouse systems and automation is

implementing bar code technology.  Barcodes let you track the “what,” “who,”
and “when” for all activities within the warehouse’s four walls. Making barcode
usage one of your first strategies will pay immediate and future dividends.

Use barcode technology in areas such as receiving, put away, replenishment,

picking, packing, shipping/manifesting, returns, cycle counts, value-add
functions, and labor tracking
 
The Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu said, “Strategy without tactics is the
slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  

How does this apply to modern day fulfillment and Supply Chain?  Many
fulfillment centers spend much of their time implementing reactive tactics
without ever thinking through the strategy of what they are trying to
achieve. The terms tactic and strategy are often confused and incorrectly used
interchangeably.

 Strategy defines your fulfillment organization’s long-term goals in

alignment with the business objectives and how you’re going to get there. The
most effective fulfillment strategies are integrated or synched up with the
company’s overall business plans and goals. 
 Tactics are more specific activities involving the assessment of the
problem, the development of options and a sound decision to proceed.
Tactical decisions are then made developing project plans and tasks, using
appropriate best practices, identifying the resources needed to achieve the
end result of the strategy and starting initiatives to implement.  
In short, strategies are the destination you’re trying to reach.  Tactics are the
activities that you need to do to get there.  

No two companies will have the same strategies and tactics. We recommend
performing a strategic assessment of your supply chain and then identify
customized tactics to fit your business objectives.
 A typical multichannel Supply Chain including Warehousing, Distribution, Information Technology
and Transportation Services.

Supply Chain and Fulfillment assessment

Defining your strategies starts with an assessment of your Supply Chain and
company fulfillment center.  This assessment should include a warehouse
operations audit or assessment, which will help you determine if your
warehouse operation is as efficient as possible. Take into account quantitative
and qualitative aspects of the warehouse operations, processes, and systems.

First, assess your center’s processes and costs, then answer these questions:

 How can you spend less on labor in your warehouse to receive

product and fill orders?
 How can you ship to the customer in the least amount of time and
expense?
 How can you improve inventory control to eliminate warehouse back
orders, or periods of temporarily not being able to find product, and
shrinkage?  
 How can you increase your existing space’s capacity to store
product?
These questions address universal challenges, regardless of distribution or
warehouse size or the industries you serve.  

READ: How to Reduce Fulfillment Expenses by Streamlining

Your Supply Chain

10 Supply Chain strategies

Each company’s Supply Chain and challenges are different, so strategies are
not a one-size-fits-all game.  Here are 10 major strategies we are consulting
on with multichannel ecommerce, wholesalers and distributors.  Only proper
assessment and alignment to your company’s goals make it the strategy for
you:  

1. Make the inbound Supply Chain more efficient

Regardless if you’re an omnichannel retailer or a pure play ecommerce

business, getting inbound products and materials on-time and as ordered is a
major initiative in many companies.  Your objective should be to receive the
 product so that it can flow through to put away or be cross docked to fill
orders.  

1. Assess what current problems exist and what costs are absorbed in
reworking non-compliant receipts in both the fulfillment center and back
office. 
2. Determine which vendors cause the majority of the delay and cost
problems.  
3. Implement tighter computer systems between vendors and your
company through EDI.
4. Implement vendor compliance programs.
5. Determine what inbound and fulfillment activities such as ticketing, final
inspection can be done cheaper and faster upstream in Supply Chain.
6. Determine how receiving dock and truck yard congestion can be
reduced or eliminated.
READ: 11 Ways to Improve Dock to Stock Processes

2. Lower shipping cost and delivery time

Your customers expect you to compete with Amazon in terms of delivery time
frames. Be responsive by getting their orders to them quicker and at a lower
shipping cost.  

1. Investigate multi-distribution center operation. Make sure to take into

account costs to set up the operation in terms of additional facilities, staffing,
and management.

3. Increase capacity of the existing warehouse

Moving to a new center is not always the answer. Without the proper layout
and design of your distribution center, no matter the square footage, you will
face capacity issues, decreased productivity, and storage inadequacies. By
addressing some basic principles, your company can delay a move to a new
facility. 

1. Address the 28 key principles that you should consider for warehouse

layout design and productivity.
 4. Increase paperwork accuracy and decrease processing
time

One of the foundation technologies for warehouse systems and automation is

implementing bar code technology.  Barcodes let you track the “what,” “who,”
and “when” for all activities within the warehouse’s four walls. Making barcode
usage one of your first strategies will pay immediate and future dividends.

1. Use barcode technology in areas such as receiving, put away,

replenishment, picking, packing, shipping/manifesting, returns, cycle counts,
value-add functions, and labor tracking

Manage labor more effectively

Most fulfillment centers and warehouses rely on manual labor, which is not
cheap.  If you can’t achieve a favorable return on investment in applying
automation, managing labor more effectively should be a major strategic goal
for your fulfillment center. 

1. Consider how changes in labor can lower cost per unit, line, order and
carton shipped.
2. Read our blog post on tips to manage labor more effectively and identify
opportunities for your business to improve productivity