Remember when Black Friday was just one day?

It is estimated that during the 2021 Black Friday sale period buyers in the UK will spend £4.6billion with a typical spend per household of £275*

This year retailers have changed the traditional 'Black Friday Sale' format to run over an extended period during most of November. This extension provides several key benefits, including the ability to better manage demand, stock availability and internal business resource. This is particularly key this year in the UK where there are challenges within the supply chain with materials shortages, delivery delays, and increasing costs of production and we have seen more options being offered to consumers on how they can receive their orders.

Managing Black Friday demand with an integrated WMS system will ensure that you can meet peak seasonal demand whilst continuing to grow your business and Datalinx recommends that functionality includes:

·         Sales order picking - range of picking options to effectively manage B2C and B2B orders quickly and efficiently

·         Pack bench

·         Courier integration

·         Stock control - dynamically manage stock with perpetual inventory 

Datalinx Warehouse Manager for Sage 200 streamlines the process of fulfilling orders. 

With multiple picking options available businesses can save time, simplifying despatch with flexible picking options for different customer order types and reduce costly errors.

How is this achieved?

• Using a barcode scanner to verify items picked against specific orders
  Define how orders are picked; by priority, promised date, priority, part pick, by product, by bin order, by customer account code, and by 'wave' - pick multiple orders together in one 'walk', then pack at a pack bench
• Integration to key couriers, reduces the time taken to book deliveries with documentation and labels automatically printed
• WMS embedded within Sage 200, connects the warehouse to the rest of the business
• Working in real time via WiFi, order information is always up to date and all transactions updated immediately into Sage  

Sage Software have written a post exploring ideas about how businesses can better prepare for Black Friday, which can be read here: https://www.sage.com/en-gb/blog/black-friday-how-retailers-can-prepare/ 

*https://www.finder.com/uk/black-friday-statistics

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