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Are your products Retail Ready?

Whether you’re a retailer or a brand, you need your products 100% compliant and sale-ready.

Retail Ready streamlines pre-retail logistics to improve efficiencies and sustainability, while reducing costs. Retail Ready will help to minimise handling and dwell time in distribution centres, consolidate deliveries from multiple suppliers and locations, enhance accuracy, create end-to-end visibility of all inbound stock, and boost speed to market.

Our Retail Ready service is already used by brands & retailers such as ASOS, JD Sports, URBN, Under Armour and Lacoste. Our solution is configurable to ensure we meet the individual retailer and brand requirements.

From fashion and footwear to home furnishings, hanging garments and packaged goods, Advanced Supply Chain’s (ASC) Retail Ready is designed to improve lead times, quality and stock visibility. The service covers all key areas of pre-retail compliance including:

  • Tag, bag, repricing and care labelling
  • Re-pack and relabelling
  • Flat processing
  • De-branding and Re-branding

It’s also supported by Value Added Services that handle returns rectification and repair, including ozone mould and odour treatment. The technology-led Retail Ready provides total control and visibility of stock inventory management. It enables the flow of data throughout pre-retail logistics to improve speed to market and enhance retailer compliance.

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Examples of cost efficiencies achieved

Retail Ready has:

  • Slashed processing lead times for a major fashion retailer from 6 days to 3 days, while also cutting dwell times at the retailer’s fulfilment centres by 48 hours
  • Enabled a luxury fashion brand to achieve 100% retailer compliance with individual labelling requirements across 10 – 15 different retailers
  • Improved speed to market for the luxury fashion brand by cutting the average time to market of the brand’s deliveries to retailers from 7-10 days to 1-2 days

Business Benefits

  • Reduced transportation costs and mileage, and lower CO2 emissions with fewer journeys

  • Accurate inbound volume data and SKU/carton tracking capability

  • Minimised handling and dwell time in distribution centres

  • Automation ready stock where required

Testimonial

ASC operate our Retail ready proposition collecting cr.40m units per annum from over 1000 UK landed suppliers, delivering directly into our UK fulfilment centre and preparing goods for delivery to our European FC ensuring that all are fully compliant and pick face ready. We have worked in partnership with ASCG to develop systems and processes aligned to delivered and continue to deliver significant service and costs benefits.

A Lacoste success story

Lacoste

Post-Brexit, the French-headquartered business wanted to establish a UK warehouse and fulfilment centre to overcome UK-Europe border delays.

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