Stord

🥳🥳STORD HAS ACQUIRED PROPACK LOGISTICS!🥳🥳 This is a huge day in the history of Stord. This acquisition expands Stord’s reach and capabilities - further enhancing the logistics infrastructure and services offered to brands. In total, Stord now operates ten key market locations across the United States and Canada, with over 2MM square feet of omnichannel fulfillment capacity, fulfilling over 750MM units annually. "This acquisition expands Stord’s comprehensive suite of products and services tailored to our customers. Further, this acquisition accelerates Stord’s revenue and volume scale, and cements our position as a leading North American e-commerce and fulfillment platform." -  Sean Henry, Co-Founder and CEO of Stord. We are excited to welcome the ProPack Logistics team and its customers to Stord, and are eager to forge a bright future together. You can read more on the acquisition here: https://lnkd.in/gyEpYe5i #fulfillment #3pl #warehousing #ecommerce

Are you attending GROW NY or The Lead Summit? Then get your coffee on us with our friends Digioh, Levitate Foundry, and Smartrr. Sign up here https://lnkd.in/g4AtHkcf OR Message Alex Kent. We hope to see you on Tuesday, July 9th!

Managing the fixed and variable costs associated with building a profitable commerce business can be a massive challenge. From manufacturing expenses, personnel overhead, and marketing to packaging, shipping, and even the time it takes between a package being marked as shipped and the carrier picking it up - it all cuts into the margins that sustain your business. In this blog post we explore the strategies brands can deploy to optimize its annual parcel spend and combat the 10-15% expense that shipping often accounts for - https://lnkd.in/gqqgTWwT

Want to have breakfast with the Stord team? Ping Alex Kent to learn more!

"Stord continues to perform above and beyond week after week and we know our entire retail fulfillment operation is in great hands. The immediate improvements we realized through the implementation of Stord One Commerce and the cost savings of Stord Parcel will allow us to easily meet our customer demand. The work Stord is doing is massively appreciated.” - Casey Beard, Chief Operating Officer at The Zero Proof. Stord's flexible fulfillment and technology now powers The Zero Proof's complete retail operation. Providing... 🥂 DTC and B2B fulfillment from our Atlanta headquarters, and option to expand to meet customer demand 🥂 Reduce delivery cost through Stord Parcel and Last-Mile Optimization 🥂 Generate per-SKU demand forecasting based on historical and projected sales with Stord Inventory Planning And much more. Read more about this exciting new partnership: https://lnkd.in/gEQ6nCUr

Running a successful retail brand is not for the faint of heart. It is a constant struggle against antagonistic forces - increasing operational expenses, market trends, inflation, to say nothing of competitor brands. But there are strategies brands can deploy to be better prepared to manage these stressors. In this blog post we explore the virtues and risks of diversification and simplification: https://lnkd.in/gVqqiQTZ

Introducing our new monthly Freight Market Update! Here you will find analysis of top trends like... 🚚 Capacity updates 🚚 Volume insights, including current impacts of produce season 🚚 A helpful playbook And much more. Read the full thing here: https://lnkd.in/gB6Bz_hx

Looking to GROW your retail business? We will be at GROW NY July 9, 2024 at Center415 in NYC to help you do just that! Meet with Hoss Mortezaie, Alex Kent, Allan Simmons, and Brad Disher...and we will have a special offer just for attendees. Grab a free ticket here: https://lnkd.in/gAFjqe4d 

If you are managing a growing e-commerce/DTC business time is your biggest enemy. So taking the time to visit your fulfillment partner may quickly fall off the to-do list...why do you even need to see your products moving in and out of a warehouse? In this blog post and associated video, Thea Dietrick explores all the hidden benefits you can discover upon visiting your current or prospective fulfillment partner - https://lnkd.in/gTSMidpV

When brands achieve accelerated growth, legacy tools and systems are often unable to sufficiently keep up with these new stressors. Brave Books, a children's book publishing company, experienced this first hand - managing its inventory and #fulfillment center with Google Spreadsheets. This means the Brave Books team was at risk of overselling kits or individual SKUs because its system lacked visibility into the available inventory. And this required the team to do labor-intensive hand counts of available stock on a near daily basis. Discover how Brave Books upgraded its #ecommerce software solutions to provide perfect inventory visibility and double the amount of orders fulfilled per day: https://lnkd.in/e-DDaAwv