DeliveryX

DeliveryX.net / Ian Jindal

How do retailers make more products ’buyable’? Increase the rate of purchase? Improve the delivery and post-purchase experience? All while increasing sustainability, managing costs and maintaining competitiveness? This series looks at the options to excel at each stage of the value chain - moving us ’beyond the buy button’.

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S1 Wrap Up with Narvar’s David Morin

DeliveryX editor Katie Searles is joined in the studio by David Morin, head of customer & retail strategy at Narvar, to look back over the first series of Beyond the Buy Button. With clips from Selfridges, Pandora, Wolverine Worldwide and Yodel, the panel will review topics including sustainability, packaging, supply chain transparency, technology and carrier management.

Feb 20, 2023•29 min•Ep. 2

S1 The omnichannel store

Stores can become mini warehouses, with stock located close to consumers. RFID technology gives retailers an accurate view of store stock optimising stock replenishment and enabling staff and customers to see exactly what’s in store. This episode looks at the complications when picking stock from store, the future of click & collect and how rapid delivery fits in.

Feb 13, 2023•30 min•Ep. 5

S1 Supply chain transparency

In the main, scope 3 emissions make up the largest part of a retailer’s carbon emissions, so a brand or retailer is not just measuring their own impact on the planet – and the people that produce the products they sell – but those emitted by everyone throughout the supply chain and every part that makes up the final product. Jessi Baker, founder of Provenance, and Markus Linder, co-founder & CEO of Inoqo, join Katie and Ian to discuss how retailers can share their sustainable supply chain jo...

Feb 06, 2023•36 min•Ep. 1

S1: Packaging is the new storefront

In this episode we look at how ecommerce deliveries are now part of the customer experience, with boxes and bags as well as product packaging providing part of the brand story. For some consumers, an order being delivered is the first physical contact with the brand. Almost 1 in 5 consumers say they won’t buy from retailers who don’t use sustainable packaging. Katie Searles in joined by Stephan Ango from end-to-end packaging firm Lumi to discuss how retailers balance brand storytelling with prac...

Dec 15, 2022•18 min•Ep. 4

S1 - Retaining agility and flexibility in people, operations and technology through the ever changing retail cycles

Retail doesn’t stand still, and in this episode the panel discusses the continuous changes and the increasing pace of change. The discussion covers how the pandemic altered things again, as did/does Brexit. Flexibility and agility are required through daily trading and the year’s peaks and troughs along with scalability for future growth. A big ask for an industry that not that long ago was used to moving pallets rather than individual products. Discussion points in the podcast How do you plan f...

Nov 01, 2022•25 min•Ep. 9

S1 - Addressing the skills gaps and labour shortages

In this episode we discuss how as ecommerce continues to grow more people will be needed to fill logistics, warehousing and delivery posts. The panel looks at how retailers are responding to the labour gap including: - AO increasing its warehousing capacity by more than 80% over the last 18 months, creating more than 1,500 jobs across the business. - John Lewis investing in extra freight and ships to ensure goods arrived in time for Christmas, as well as providing hot meals for festive temps Dis...

Nov 01, 2022•24 min•Ep. 10

Shipping economics

In this episode we consider the business models, drivers and commercial options for delivery companies. We've seen the importance of service quality to the customer - who of course also demands extensive options and a zero cost - and so in this episode, we focus on how the carriers are adapting to, or leading, the retailer's requirements. We're joined by Mike Hancox, CEO of Yodel, and we cover: Carrier reputation and customer experience getting the 'basics' right - with a discussion on what cons...

Aug 01, 2022•27 min•Ep. 6

Returns, Exchanges and Refunds

For our discussion on "returns" we are joined in the studio by Ricky Wilson of Pandora, and Steven Irwin of Wolverine Worldwide (the group that counts Sweaty Better, Wolverine, Saucony and Merrell amongst its brands). With 89% of UK consumers saying that ease of returns is a top priority, we discuss: how to make returns smoothly serial returns and 'wardrobing' "trusted exchanges" and how to speed exchange and refund can exchanges lead to further sales reducing returns at the 'buy button' the pap...

Aug 01, 2022•41 min•Ep. 7

Managing circular business models

For our discussion on circular business models we are joined in the studio by Ricky Wilson of Pandora, and Steven Irwin of Wolverine Worldwide (the group that counts Sweaty Better, Wolverine, Saucony and Merrell amongst its brands) and Mike Hancox, CEO of Yodel. We cover: recent news on green delivery from Royal Mail, Tesco, and others Amazon's Hackney, London "micromobility hub" discuss bikes (referencing Yodel reaching over 1million bike deliveries) building sustainability into supply chains, ...

Aug 01, 2022•38 min•Ep. 8

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