A challenge for the e-commerce logistics market: Cyber Week

Today marks one of the busiest days of the year for retailers, couriers and 3PL (Third Party Logistics) companies: Black Friday, swiftly followed by Cyber Monday as part of Cyber Week. The shopping event originates from America where retailers offer incentive deals in order to attract an increase in sales through wholesalers and e-commerce platforms. For a while now, the popularity of the phenomenon has been expanding both in time (a whole week) as in space, moving towards European countries and creating a real logistical challenge worldwide. Luckily, stow has been racking the world continuously in order to prepare our customers for Cyber Week, the holiday period, or any other challenge.

Accelerated by the pandemic, the global e-commerce logistics market grew tremendously in 2020 and 2021, and the market is forecast to grow even more over the next years. Needless to say, the need for state-of-the-art storage solutions is indispensable in order to keep up with the rising demand.

One key requirement for any 3PL is to be flexible, none more so during peak periods such as Black Friday or Christmas, when the expectations of retailers increase. Throughout the year and during these busy periods especially, 3PL companies need to store a large and variable number of goods for short periods of time during the distribution process. That means that their business depends solely on how efficiently they can store and distribute goods.

And that’s where stow Robotics & iFollow - Autonomous Mobile Robots come in. Our complete product offering is a fit for all your e-commerce and e-fulfillment storage & picking activities.

Scalable, flexible and innovative; discover our solutions for a fully automated warehouse: pick towers, pallet transport from the loading area to operators, automated storage and retrieval for pallets & bins, picking with AMRs, ... 

Do you want to learn more about our automated storage solutions? Contact us!