Why Visibility Matters in Your Order Picking Operations
In today’s fast-paced grocery e-commerce landscape, control is key. The better you manage your picking process, the more you safeguard your customer experience, operational excellence, and long-term profitability. But achieving that level of control doesn’t have to mean building your own platform from the ground up.
An API-first, flexible, and modular solution gives you full visibility and control over your in-store picking process. It lets you maintain ownership without overburdening your development team or slowing innovation.
1. Take Control of Your Fulfillment Journey
The right solution gives you complete visibility into who picks the order, what’s being picked, and how it’s delivered. No need to rely on third-party services that can overcrowd your stores, frustrate shoppers, or make inconsistent substitution choices.
With this level of oversight, you can consistently meet your service standards—without having to build an in-house system from the ground up.
2. Equip Your Teams with Tools That Work for Them
When you control your fulfillment system, you decide how your store teams operate. Provide your staff with user-friendly, intuitive tools that support them in their daily tasks.
A simple, easy-to-learn app helps reduce stress, keeps workflows smooth, and allows employees to focus on both order fulfillment and excellent in-store customer service. A solution that works seamlessly in practice helps you engage and retain your frontline team.
3. Stay Flexible—Choose Only What You Need
An API-first design allows you to integrate the features that matter most to your operation, whether it’s labour forecasting, substitution rules, or last-mile carrier support.
This keeps you in full control of your tech stack and avoids being locked into rigid platforms that force you to adapt your business processes to their limitations.
4. Own Your Data and Insights
Your performance data and customer insights remain yours—no hidden clauses, no revenue-sharing models.
You can analyse, compare, and optimise using your own metrics and business logic, with full transparency and control.
5. Grow Smarter While Staying in Control
Built for real-world retail needs, the solution adapts to your store setup—no matter its size or format. You can roll out updates and enhancements on your terms, without disrupting workflows.
By adopting the right platform, your development team can stay focused on strategic projects, while you scale quickly, avoid operational surprises, and deliver a consistent, high-quality experience to every customer.
Learn more about StrongPoint’s award-winning Order Picking solution
Order Picking
With customers achieving picking speeds of 240–300 items per hour, StrongPoint Order Picking is the quickest manual picking system in the world. It’s a cloud-based system made to improve in-store employees’ accuracy and productivity. With the help of our technology, manual procedures can become up to 7 times more efficient and 99.99% precise than they would be with pen and paper.
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