SaaS WMS provider, Snapfulfil is expecting to handle a 70 per cent uplift in transactions on its system in the run up to Christmas this year.
For
one major customer alone, Snapfulfil will provide more than 100
additional licenses and RF devices and expects to handle in excess of
150,000 transactions per day. To accommodate this uplift, the company
has invested in extra server capacity to maintain service levels and
availability to all customers during the critical peak trading period.
This
is Snapfulfil’s biggest peak yet – two years ago, it planned for a 30
per cent uplift and last year experienced a 50 per cent increase,
reflecting its continued penetration in the retail sector. Snapfulfil
also reports that Black Friday is driving a sharper increase in demand
compared to the more gradual ramp-up previously associated with the lead
in to Christmas.
Due
to Snapfulfil’s SaaS model, customers can temporarily increase the
number of software licenses and devices they use, for as long as they
need them and revert back to their original agreement when activity
levels return to normal. This provides a highly cost-effective and
flexible warehouse management solution to support their peak trading
periods.
Snapfulfil’s Technical Director, Andy White says: “As
well as allowing our customers to flex their operations in line with
activity levels, Snapfulfil is also extremely user-friendly which means
that they can get temporary staff up and running on the system within
minutes.We also offer the
highest levels of resiliency and redundancy in both infrastructure and
hardware as standard and have made a significant investment in
increasing server capacity to accommodate increased activity levels.
This provides our customers with a robust, failsafe warehouse management
solution at a time when they simply can’t afford any downtime.”
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