Save the sale and avoid stockout with just-in-time inventory management

Reduce retail inventory management costs

Respond to demand more quickly with the industry’s most flexible inventory replenishment solution. Roadie’s crowdsourced delivery model offers a faster, better, more efficient way to move product between stores and warehouses. There’s no doubt that repositioning inventory from stores to warehouses to stores again gets expensive and time-consuming. Plagued by the need for space and staffing costs, most retailers rely on LTL trucks to move multiple pallets. But many are finding that this inventory replenishment method proves to be inefficient and unsustainable when it comes to moving smaller shipments.

When you’re shipping air, you’re losing money. That’s why many retailers are pivoting to a lean logistics strategy and tapping into unused space in vehicles already on the road. This method of inventory optimization gives retailers the capacity to:

  • Move product from one location to another without booking an LTL truck
  • Reduce delivery wait times from 24-48 hours to 2-4 hours
  • Address reverse logistics and out-of-stock items and returns with less overhead
Optimize order fulfillment ship-from-store and in-store pickup

It’s no secret that next-day and same-day order fulfillment relies on an efficient retail inventory optimization solution to find success. When you’re stocked out of an item, customers can’t buy it — which means a loss in sales and trust from that customer. And if you add that up over time, that missing spoke in your supply chain logistics strategy can significantly impact your revenue.

roadie inventory management

Lean logistics helps prevent out-of-stock SKUs and lost sales. When product runs low, Roadie will help you restock shelves right away. That way, retailers can begin optimizing ship-from-store, in-store pickup, and other alternative order fulfillment strategies.

Inventory optimization that works for your business

No matter if customers buy online or in-store, matching purchase demand with store supply consistently proves to be a balancing act. Here are a few ways Roadie can help your business with inventory restocking and supply chain logistics:

Warehouse-to-Store

Roadie taps into passenger cars and trucks to pick up inventory from warehouses or distribution centers and deliver them directly to stores in just two hours.

Warehouse-to-DC

Sometimes savvy inventory management means rebalancing product between warehouses or DCs. Crowdsourcing makes the process faster and more flexible.

Store-To-Store

When hot items are flying off shelves, the best way to rebalance may be from store to store. Roadie taps passenger vehicles near stores to make rebalancing faster.

Store-to-Warehouse

When returns and slow-moving SKUs need to go back to the manufacturer, our reverse logistics solution is faster and more flexible than traditional options.

Inventory Repositioning

National pet supply retailer with thousands of stores and booming e-commerce expands their omnichannel capabilities

The Challenge

If a customer wants an online item for same-day delivery or in-store pickup but that item isn’t locally in stock, the risk of losing the sale is incredibly high - especially when a competitor has that item ready to ship

The Solution

Roadie taps into an independent network of vehicles already on the road for same-day last-mile deliveries up to 100 miles. National scalability allows retailers to move inventory within 2-4 hours.

The Results

  • A scalable delivery solution for less
  • Increase sales & customer satisfaction