"Id","Url","Starts","Ends","Sponsor","Location","Description", "1908","https://2021.promatshow.com/education/seminar/1908","4/12/2021 1:30:00 PM","4/12/2021 2:00:00 PM","Swisslog Logistics, Inc.","Theater C","Deploying Micro-fulfillment for Macro Results Rapid adoption of e-commerce in the past 12 months has exposed two realities about the retail industry. Retailers quickly rose to meet surging demand for e-commerce, but doing so led to new fulfillment challenges and profit pressures. As e-commerce continues to grow, retailers understand there is a role for automation to play, but what exactly that looks like is unknown. Grocers have been on the leading edge of micro-fulfillment and retailers of all types can benefit from their learnings. To help bring clarity to retailers' digital future, Swisslog’s VP of Consulting and Sales, Colman Roche will give insight on the following: • What’s working now — best practices from market leaders. • Promising technologies to improve order fulfillment processes. • The role of automation in next generation supply chains. While the future is never certain, most expectations point to continued growth of e-commerce. In fact, the future is now and the time is right to accelerate innovation with automated fulfillment solutions. ",