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Sources: (1) U.S. Department of Commerce, 2017, (2) Pew Research Online Shopping and Ecommerce Survey, 12/19/16, (3) Retail Dive Survey, 2/22/2017
Retail Landscape – Despite double-digit growth,
ecommerce represents only 10% of US retail sales
Brick-and-Mortar
• $4.4 trillion U.S. sales in 2016 1
• 2.9% growth vs. 2015 ($124B) 1
• ≈90% of total U.S. retail sales 1
• 64% of Americans indicate that, all things being
equal, they prefer buying from physical stores to
buying online 2
E-Commerce
• $395 billion U.S. sales in 2016 1
• 15.6% growth vs. 2015 ($53B) 1
• ≈10% of total U.S. retail sales 1
• 79% of Americans make purchases online. 2
• 67% of millennials and 56% of GenX “prefer to
search and purchase on e-commerce sites rather
than in-store” 3
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Omnichannel Retail combines the power of online
and offline retail to delight customers
Omnichannel Retail
• Serve customers online, in stores, via
contact centers and much more
• Deliver amazing, consistent experiences
across channels
• Omni-channel capabilities include:
• Ship from store
• Click & Collect (Buy online, pickup in store)
• Research online, purchase in store
• Research in store, order online
• Buy online, return to store
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Ship from store refers to fulfilling online orders
from brick-and-mortar store inventory
Distribution Center
Warehouses are stocked with products
to be redistributed directly to
consumers
Ship From Store
Retailers can use stock from
their store inventory to fulfill and
ship orders
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4.
Ship from store improves shipping cost and speed,
2 factors that heavily influence online purchases
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Source: Big Commerce, “Omni-Channel Retail in 2017: What Brands Need to Know and Modern Consumer Shopping Habits”
80%
Shipping Cost and
Speed

5.
Benefits – Ship from Store reduces delivery times
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Toys-R-Us: 94% of ship-from-store orders
shipped within two days during peak season.1
Best Buy: 2 day reduction in average shipping
time after implementing Ship from Store.2
Target: Ship from store contributed to 3-day
reduction in average delivery time.3
Sources: (1) Kurt Salman Associates, “Ship-from-Store: If You
Haven’t Started Yet, You’re Dangerously Behind.”
(2) Stella Service, 1/7/2015, “2014 Fulfillment Coverage,
Trends in Shipping, Delivery, Returns.”
(3) Stella Service, 10/1/2014, “Target Delivers in Less
Than 3 Days Now”
Faster Delivery
• Deliver from store closest to shopper
• Deliver from store when DC out of
stock

6.
Benefits - Ship from Store reduces shipping costs
Lower Shipping Cost
20% shipping cost reductions from
fulfilling within the shipping delivery
zone
Ship from store provides low-cost
and high-speed delivery by
distributing “warehouses” and
effectively putting “fulfillment
centers” relatively closer to shoppers.
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Forrester:
Retailers with an operational ship-from-store program have
the opportunity to ship locally from a store in geographic
proximity to the customer’s delivery address….
… Consider that the standard cost of shipping a one-pound
package via UPS ground from New York State to California is
$7.71, versus $6.24 for shipping the same package within
California.”

7.
Benefits - Ship from Store optimizes inventory to
increase topline revenue and improve margins
Inventory optimization
Smart distribution from warehouses
and stores boosts revenue and
margins
• Reduce markdowns by shipping from
overstocked stores
• Ship from stores when warehouses are out of
stock
• Ship from another store when local store is out
of stock
Revenue and Margin Increase
30% Online sales increase at American
Apparel after starting to use stores as
backup fulfillment centers.
.
39% online sales bump at Nordstrom’s
attributed to integrating online and in-
store inventories.
Source: Kurt Salmon Associates, Ship-from-Store: If You Haven’t
Started Yet, You’re Dangerously Behind
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Benefits - Ship from Store increases the number of
SKUs available for online purchase
Expand Online Assortment
Increase available online SKUs without
capital investment in distribution
centers
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66% of our total unique SKUs
are only on our store shelves,
not in the warehouse.
GameStop saw a 20% lift in sales of
goods that were not in the warehouse
by allowing customers to view all
products in the store online, and
letting employees in nearby stores
view on-shelf inventory as well.
Source: Chain Store Age, “GameStop scores big with Ship From Store”

9.
Challenges – Stores must have space dedicated to packing
and shipping, and need software to manage operations
Physical space and tools
• Physical stores are not designed as
warehouses.
• Retailers must find room for packing
tables, materials, and staging.
• Software is needed to assign orders,
print packing and shipping labels
• Employees may only be able to fulfill
when stores are empty (off hours)
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Challenges – Employees must be trained, and their
incentives need to align with offline and online success
Employee training and incentives
• Employees need to learn picking and
packing procedures
“Store associates often send out poorly packaged items
because they have not been properly trained” – or-- “they
do not see their work duty as being a warehouse
associate.”
• Employees may focus on store customersm
“Store associates, especially commission-based employees,
sometimes hold back ‘best sellers’ rather than fulfill online
orders, to ensure items are available for their clients.”
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Source: Retail Wire, 3/29/2016, “Store Fulfillment Is Creating Associate Tension”

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Challenges – Visibility into real-time inventory
across all channels is required to succeed
Omnichannel Inventory Visibility
Success hinges on a real-time, integrated,
enterprise-wide view of orders & inventory
Real-time, instantaneous decisions, include:
• Which stores can fulfill the entire order?
• Which store is sitting on too much inventory?
• Which store is closest to the ship-to address?
• If in stock, can our employees find it?
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Source: Practical Ecommerce 6/5/2017, “Ship from Store Fulfillment a Must for Brick and Click Retailers”

12.
Resolving Challenges – An Enterprise Order Management
and Inventory Platform enables Ship from Store Success
Order & Inventory Platform
• Real-time inventory visibility and control
across the entire enterprise
• Intelligent Order Routing identifies the
optimal warehouse or store for fulfillment
• Streamlines fulfillment with order
prioritization, packing slips, shipping
labels
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13.
Resolving Challenges – Retailers must assign employees
to fulfill orders, and decide what KPIs they’re to improve
Business Decisions
• Staffing: Who will fulfill ship-from-store
orders?
• Which goals will we seek to achieve?
• Expand inventory / avoid stockouts?
• Maximize full price sales / Ship from
overstocked stores?
• Save on shipping costs?
The answers will dictate the intelligent order
routing rules
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14.
Pulse Commerce Order & Inventory Platform
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Pulse Commerce Order and Inventory Platform is the central nervous system of
your omnichannel commerce operations, providing unprecedented real-time,
enterprise-wide visibility and control of all orders, inventory and customers.

15.
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