Dematic, a global leader in supply chain solutions announced an exciting new partnership with Transcend Retail Solutions – part of the Tesco group, the UK’s largest in-store and online retailer. This collaboration step changes ecommerce through a proven micro-fulfillment center.
Building on a successful 20-year partnership between Tesco and Dematic, where numerous successful deployments of MFCs have been achieved over the past five years, we are proud to introduce the Transcend MFC, in partnership with Dematic.
The Transcend MFC, offers a scalable and repeatable end-to-end solution, enabling grocers to enhance capacity and efficiently fulfil orders close to their customers. The established solution enables configurability and optimization, benefiting not only the online customers with better product availability and quality metrics, but the in-store customers through reduced in-store congestion.
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Advanced software and cutting-edge automation technologies enhance MFC operations by supporting decision-making and delivering essential insights and optimizations throughout the entire process. With Transcend’s consultancy and software, each phase of the operating model is carefully planned, transforming complex WMS data into comprehensible actions for colleagues. This ensures successful automation integration within a grocery store environment.
“Grocery retailers need to meet very unique demands,” said Steve Hagenbuck, Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Alignment, Dematic. “Partnering with Transcend will bring industry and domain expertise to the MFC market while drawing upon Dematic’s extensive automation technology experience.”
“Our partnership with Dematic brings together decades of solution expertise and superior automation technologies,” said Oliver Vogt, CEO, Transcend Retail Solutions. “The Transcend MFC solution has been tested and has proven to be successful for both online and in-store growth in grocery. The solution enables unmatched increases in picking and replenishment rates with total productivity three times above market level for in-store picking. At Transcend, everything we do is designed by grocers for grocers.”
Source: PRNewswire