Warehouse Merchandising Support During Covid-19 Pandemic
A grocery retailer that owns a number of franchises in Northern Ireland, have been distributing food and grocery-related products to the convenience retail sector for over 120 years.
REQUIREMENT
The grocery retailer needed a solution of warehouse merchandising support during the Covid-19 pandemic, and required RGIS to provide the following:
- Reduce backlog of deliveries that had been previously received
- Receive and process warehouse deliveries
- Merchandise stock onto the warehouse floor from deliveries
- Adhere to strict merchandise warehouse rules
SOLUTION
The grocery retailer partnered with RGIS to complete the warehouse merchandising project, and RGIS provided the following:
- Scheduled a team of four experienced RGIS merchandisers
- Support for over a four-week period
- RGIS merchandisers were trained with the strict merchandising warehouse rules
- Support receiving and processing warehouse deliveries
- Merchandised stock to correct locations within the warehouse
RESULTS
The grocery retailer found by outsourcing the warehouse merchandising project to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
- Orders were processed on time
- Backlog was reduced to zero
- The customer was impressed with the high level of service received from RGIS