This document discusses eBay Enterprise and its omnichannel fulfillment solutions. It summarizes eBay Enterprise's offerings, including fulfillment centers around the world, same-day and expedited shipping options, personalized packaging, and store-based fulfillment capabilities. While drones were briefly mentioned as a media tactic by Amazon, the document asserts that eBay Enterprise's comprehensive suite of omnichannel solutions provides a more realistic path to meeting customer demands for fast, personalized delivery.
4. New paradigm: connected commerce
Stores
Call Center
Direct
Mobile
Ship from Store
Intelligent
Commerce
Care
In-Store Pickup
Personalization
Regional
Fulfillment
Cross Border
Trade
Systems
Integration
Returns
6. eBay Enterprise enables connected consumer
experiences
Global market reach
Demand generation
with high ROI
Fast delivery
Compelling experiences
on any device
Relevant, personalized
content and offers
Brick and mortar
selling and fulfillment
8. Our scale brings significant value to our clients
Connected marketing solutions driving
13:1 higher marketing ROI
Most competitive cut-offs times during
2013 holiday season, beating Amazon and
other leading retailers & brands
90% of orders shipped same day
Tight integration with stores driving
2-5% incremental chain-wide
sales growth
85% of orders delivered in 3 days
Integrated commerce
technologies with lower
cost of ownership
12. Fulfillment center locations
SF = effective facility square footage
UK
SWITZ.
SPAIN
NETH.
LUX.
FRANCE
BEL.
AUSTRIA
PORTUGAL
ONTARIO
VA
KY
NV
CHINA
Mississauga, Ontario
150,000 SF
Louisville, KY (Three Facilities)
1,477,000 SF
Shepherdsville, KY
784,000 SF
Martinsville, VA (Four Facilities)
1,118,000 SF (15K SF Freezer)
McCarran, NV
500,000 SF
Shenzhen, China (Fireswirl – Partner)
16,000 SF
Erfurt, Germany (FIEGE – Partner)
900,000 SF
Ibbenbüren, Germany (FIEGE – Partner)
900,000 SF
Manchester, UK
220,000 SF
Milan, Italy (FIEGE – Partner)
250,000 SF
Paris, France (FIEGE – Partner)
65,000 SF
Richwood, KY (Three Facilities)
2,075,000 SF
ITALY
GERMANY
13. • Inbound receiving and logistics
• Order processing and inventory control
• Warehouse management system
• Freight management solutions
• ShipQuik and Boost programs to optimize shipping
• Value added service
– Personalization
– Custom, branded packaging
– Gifting
– Custom assembly
• Reverse logistics
• International shipping
Fulfillment capabilities
receiving SLA
24hr
Market Leading Speed and Quality
order accuracy
99.7%
same day shipping
90%
14. Providing scale and flexibility
shipped units
in 2013
161M
shipped units
Q4 2013
58M
shipped packages
in 2013
37M
peak day shipped
units 2013
1.4M
19. Shipquik drives speed of delivery
• Freight program to direct line haul packages to local UPS Hubs
• Improved transit time
• Lower rates to clients and consumers
• Faster delivery to the consumer
• Improved consumer tracking
20. Customer
Selects 2 Day
Customer Zip
Code
2 Day GRD
2 Day Air
Customer
Selects GRD
Customer Zip
Code
3 Days
Std GRD
3 Day Air
Ground Logic 2 Day Logic
Boost Optimizes Shipping Options
21. Iship for international shipping & expansion
• Capture international market share with low cost express international shipping service
• 60 countries included spanning Europe, Asia and South America
• iShip DDP
– Landed and freight costs collected at checkout on web store
– Customer pays zero at delivery enhancing the consumer experience
• iShip DDU: landed and freight costs collected by carrier on delivery
22. Returns, Speed and Flexibility
• Prepaid return label included on packslip
• Consumer choice of dropping off at USPS or UPS
• Immediate tracking visibility on UPS.com
• Reduced freight cost
• Retailer defined business rules for return labels and consumer costs
Customer to UPS
/ USPS
UPS pickup from
USPS
UPS ships to
eBay Enterprise
eBay Enterprise
processes return
UPS
Total transit time is 2-6 days
24. Store-Based fulfillment
IN-STORE PICKUP
Increase sales, store traffic and enable consumer
convenience with same day pickup
SHIP FROM STORE
Increase revenue, margin and inventory turns by exposing
store inventory to the web and captures lost sales
SHIP TO STORE
Enable consumer convenience and
drive store traffic
25. Store based fulfillment results
20-40%
Average increase
in incremental
ecommerce revenue
33%
Average percent
of items shipped
are inactive
30%+
Margin increase
on items
nearing markdown
80%+
1 day
transit time,
96% 2 day
26. Ship from store saves sales
• Consumer Benefits
– Expanded product assortment
– Few “out of stock” / “back order” scenarios
– Fast delivery
• Retailer Value
– 10-40% incremental ecommerce revenue
– Increase inventory sell through
– Decrease markdowns
– Optimize store assets and labor
shop competitors when only
1 item is out of stock *43%
limit future shopping *
40%
would purchase other items
if retailer secured out of
stock item*
59%
*Source: Cross-Channel Brand Interaction: 2012 Consumer Preferences; Demandware and Sterling
We want to offer our customers universal inventory availability which is central to our
omnichannel mantra ‘any shoe, anywhere, anytime.’ Deploying ship from store will
be a major milestone in making this mantra a reality.
Roger Rawlins, SVP of Ecommerce, DSW
eBay Enterprise Press Release
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28. So what about drones?
• Not reality in the near future
– A media GIMMICK to get Amazon’s names out
there prior to Christmas Peak 2013
– Put Amazon in the news
• What is the future?
– eBay Enterprise’s comprehensive & modular
solution suite
– Omnichannel Fulfillment
– Same Day Delivery
– 7 days a week delivery
Delivery Drones Grounded by F.A.A.
Let’s start with the old paradigm of the multichannel commerce model. Retailers use to rely on 4 separate channels to sell their products and services: Brick & Mortar Stores, the internet direct through a website and/or a mobile device and finally taking orders in a call center. These were effective for a time, but as technology and social expectations continued to evolve, the paradigm evolved.
The line between traditional retail and ecommerce blurred and has now disappeared. It's no longer ecommerce, it's just commerce. Consumers are one step ahead of retailers. They have already assimilated the web, smartphones, tablets, 3rd party apps, location-based services and social technologies into their shopping journeys.
How many of you do research on line before purchasing in a store? In fact, 84% prefer combination in-store and online experience.
71% want associate to check other stores and ship direct.
43% like to buy online and pick up in-store
63% prefer to buy online but return in-store
The Era of Me Commerce - Demand personalized, localized and engaging experiences. They want to shop when they want, where they want, how they want, and delivered wherever they want as quickly as possible. Multichannel customers generate 21% more value than single-channel customers
Retailers and Brands need help to compete. We deliver these connected consumer experiences across all touch points of the purchase lifecycle by engaging potential customers, converting browsers into buyers and delivering products with speed and quality. This cycle is the way we view the modern “funnel” and it’s how we’ve structured our company to service it.
So we’ve established 4 pillars to support strategy:
Marketing Solutions – The result of integrating nine marketing product and agency services companies in to one group offering a wide range of services and tools.
Commerce Technologies – Web design and dynamic maintenance
Retail Order Mgmt – Intelligent order routing, omnichannel inventory management (Visibility), payments processing, fraud management, and reporting.
Operations - Customer Service, Fulfillment and Transportation
Comprehensive end-to-end provider, with the ability to offer modular solutions. A client can take advantage of our expertise in one or all of these areas.
On top of the suite of solutions, our scale brings significant value to our clients.
Shared technology offers lower cost of ownership
Store inventory visibility and fulfillment offers incremental sales growth
Innovated and data driven Marketing solutions produce greater results
Extended cut-off times and shipping speed enhance the customer’s experience
Over 500 clients are using any number of solutions. From a fulfillment perspective we are servicing almost 60 clients.
Let me now focus on the fulfillment and transportation components of our modular suite.
It starts with a strong presence across the world. Partners in China and most of Europe provide overseas support and six eBay Enterprise sites support North America. The North American sites encompass over 6.5m effective square feet.
Call out Reno, NV operation…. This is a regional fulfillment, specifically servicing the west coast. Clients have split their inventories between this site and an east coast site. They do this to take advantage of the next day service to 6 western states, reduced freight costs and operational redundancy for out-of-stock and disaster recovery situations.
State of the art operational capabilities provide market leading speed and quality.
- Advance ship notice technology allows for 24 hour receiving SLA
- Tight controls utilizing RF scanning and soon to be implemented voice technology ensures consistent order accuracy and inventory controls
- Flexible WMS and material handling technology supports various types of processing:
batch and order picking
sorter and put-to-light technology,
auto-bagging
auto dunnage disbursement
print and apply shipping label systems
All of these and solid operational coordination provides 90% same day shipping for our clients.
The result is scale and flexibility, shipping over 161m units last year, of which 58m were done in the 4th quarter, and 1.4m in one day during Peak.
Some of our clients have dramatic variability in volume due to promotions and during peak…. and……
….. And Peak requires a significant ramp up of seasonal employees to handle the volumes.
Value added services are extremely important to our clients, emphasizing their brand and providing a unique customer experience:
Packaging can be as simple as a bag or a box with some brown paper or air pillows for fill to branded corrugate, carton lined tissue, sticker and pack slip.
Gift wrap, including unique gift messaging and specialized wraps and bows ties, has become a promotional add-on like free shipping.
Personalization is growing. Our French Toast client requires 29 monogramming machines to support their thriving school uniform business.
Getting it out the door is important, but you still have to get it there, so time in transit is also a focal area. While we have a great partnership with UPS, their network has opportunities. So we actually run direct line hauls by-passing some of the UPS hubs to reduce transit times. Examples are Louisville to Chicago, Newark, Dallas, LA and SF.
Results = 2.4 days average transit time
A unique transportation option is our Boost program. The program automatically upgrades orders based on zip codes and transit times to ensure delivery prior to holiday. The program minimizes freight costs by upgrading only those orders that need it and drives incremental sales for the client.
Clients are expanding their markets by taking advantage of our international shipping program. The Iship DDP option offers an enhanced customer experience by collecting the landed and freight cost at the time of checkout.
We are finding that returns are an often overlooked opportunity with the customer. Customers are looking for a hassle free process and quick re-imbursement of their money. It starts with a prepaid return label, a choice of how to return it, and a 24 hours processing SLA once it is received. This includes a lower freight cost for the clients that offer free returns.
To round out the fulfillment process, we want to look at store-based fulfillment.
The foundation for this approach is the availability of the retailers’ complete inventory (stores and fulfillment sites) to the web and then utilizing intelligent order routing to optimize the fulfillment source based on an array of criteria. Let me give you a couple of examples:
A customer comes into a store looking for a unique shoe size, but it is out-of-stock. Rather than loosing the customer, the sales associate can view all store and fulfillment inventories and then offer the customer the option to pick the shoes up at a nearby store or have them shipped to their home or the store they are in.
The retailer has some pockets of excess inventory of a seasonal blouse in their store network. The blouse will eventually need to be marked down. But with store-based fulfillment, the retailer can direct web orders to those stores with the excess inventory, minimizing the markdown exposure for the item.
One caution with store-based fulfillment is that it doesn’t replace centralized fulfillment. That is because stores are not setup to handle significant volume. Processing space in a retail store is limited and expensive and staffing can be inefficient and costly to maintain.
Retailers utilizing store based fulfillment are seeing excellent results, driving incremental sales and avoiding or minimizing markdowns. Customers are getting what they want and enjoying fast delivery times.
Customers are definitely responding to ship from store functionality, helping retailers save sales. Customers are telling us that they will shop competitors when only 1 item is out of stock and limit future shopping. So this fulfillment option is definitely making a difference for our clients.
Ok, I’ve worked through almost my whole presentation and haven’t mentioned a thing about drones. To come clean, I did use it to beef up the title of my session to spark some interest.
So what about drones…… The logistical and legal challenges make them little more than a pipe dream for the moment. Truly out-of-the box thinking and visionary by Jeff Bezos. It was definitely an effective marketing ploy.
Let’s talk about the future…..
First, connected commerce is here to stay and it is going to continue to grow.
We see eBay Enterprise’s comprehensive and modular solution suites providing all the tools and services to keep up with it and help our client compete and flourish.
Secondly, once that click of the mouse occurs to purchase an item, Fulfillment and Transportation become the last link in offering a seamless experience for the customer. Consistent quality execution and speed become an important selling point for the customer to return. Our Omnichannel Fulfillment Services provide that.
Finally, Same day delivery and 7 days a week delivery are on their way. Our Transportation group is already looking at options to ensure we stay competitive and offer options are clients and their customers will want.