During peak season, businesses are met with higher consumer expectations than normal, and they only continue to rise and start earlier each year. Studies show that nearly 2 million more people than last year are expected to shop through peak season and 46% of shoppers started their holiday shopping earlier than usual in 2021. Moreover, researchers suggest that 70% of shoppers faced with out-of-stock products have switched retailers or brands instead, and businesses that simply can’t supply the demands of customers lose an estimated $634 billion. Therefore, businesses must find new ways to manage and surpass these demands, or else they could risk creating shipping errors, increased stockouts, piercing expenses, slower productivity, incomplete visibility, and potentially damaged customer relationships and brand trust.

Fortunately, to effectively manage costs and surpass expectations, many businesses are turning to inventory tracking solutions like RFID that can ensure 99.9% accuracy and provide a more complete view of visibility instantly. Higher accuracy and instant visibility creates smoother workflows to ultimately help workers complete orders and maximize fulfillment.

Stay ready for peak season with trusted solutions.

Finding ways to prepare for peak season means finding those tracking solutions that can efficiently boost your shipping operations. That’s why Spencer Technologies empowers businesses with flexible solutions that are built for your needs to consistently optimize order fulfillment. To remain ahead of peak season, you should implement these tricks to avoid stockouts this peak season:

  1. Start optimizing early – Giving your teams time to accurately collect data and optimize operations gives them adequate time to fix challenges that might occur. It also helps them manage trends and predict problems to maximize accuracy. This is possible by giving your workers instant access to the important information they need to make important decisions.
  2. Track demands with actionable insights and elevated data capture – Fostering faster and more accurate data capture creates smoother workflows to help improve scalability for peak season. This is possible by collecting and uploading data electronically, which can help avoid errors and lost inventory. This leads to reduced stockouts and lessens the risk of overstocking while improving accuracy during peak season. Robust RFID solutions are now designed to ensure faster data capture performance in fast-paced environments to help you gain the real-time visibility you need.
  3. Prioritize real-time visibility and communication – Establishing reliable connections and real-time visibility can help your teams simplify accuracy and fulfillment during peak season. By utilizing RFID data capture solutions and mobile computing together, it provides your teams with accurate data in real-time, which helps them respond to each other and demands faster. For example, RFID updates cycle counts and tracks stock to boost order picking for smoother curbside service and more completed orders. Spencer’s RFID tracking solutions help reduce labor costs, downtime, and reverse logistics costs to make your business more accurate and efficient during peak season.
  4. Ensure your devices are protected with reliable support – Managing and maintaining the status of your mobile devices can ensure that interruptions don’t plague business operations during peak season. By working alongside a dependable tech support team, businesses are able to simplify setup, expand solution visibility, and maintain device management, thus eliminating blindspots in the setup process.

Starting optimization early, implementing effective data capture and real-time visibility, and protecting your mobile devices can help you prepare for peak season. Contact us at Spencer Technologies for a free consultation on what your store needs.