• Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Supplier Directory
  • Login
  • Subscribe
  • Logout
  • My Profile

  • CORONAVIRUS
  • LOGISTICS
    • Air Cargo
    • All Logistics
    • Express/Small Shipments
    • Facility Location Planning
    • Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage
    • Global Gateways
    • Global Logistics
    • Last Mile Delivery
    • Logistics Outsourcing
    • LTL/Truckload Services
    • Ocean Transportation
    • Rail & Intermodal
    • Reverse Logistics
    • Service Parts Management
    • Transportation & Distribution
  • TECHNOLOGY
    • All Technology
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cloud & On-Demand Systems
    • Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)
    • ERP & Enterprise Systems
    • Forecasting & Demand Planning
    • Global Trade Management
    • Inventory Planning/ Optimization
    • Product Lifecycle Management
    • Sales & Operations Planning
    • SC Finance & Revenue Management
    • SC Planning & Optimization
    • Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
    • Supply Chain Visibility
    • Transportation Management
  • GENERAL SCM
    • Business Strategy Alignment
    • Education & Professional Development
    • Global Supply Chain Management
    • Global Trade & Economics
    • HR & Labor Management
    • Quality & Metrics
    • Regulation & Compliance
    • SC Security & Risk Mgmt
    • Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility
  • WAREHOUSING
    • All Warehouse Services
    • Conveyors & Sortation
    • Lift Trucks & AGVs
    • Order Fulfillment
    • Packaging
    • RFID, Barcode, Mobility & Voice
    • Robotics
    • Warehouse Management Systems
  • INDUSTRIES
    • Aerospace & Defense
    • Apparel
    • Automotive
    • Chemicals & Energy
    • Consumer Packaged Goods
    • E-Commerce/Omni-Channel
    • Food & Beverage
    • Healthcare
    • High-Tech/Electronics
    • Industrial Manufacturing
    • Pharmaceutical/Biotech
    • Retail
  • REGIONS
    • Asia Pacific
    • Canada
    • China
    • Europe
    • Latin America
    • Middle East/Africa
    • North America
  • THINK TANK
  • WEBINARS
  • PODCASTS
  • VIDEOS
  • WHITEPAPERS
Home » New Omnichannel Real Estate Models Are 'Secret Weapon' in Retail War

New Omnichannel Real Estate Models Are 'Secret Weapon' in Retail War

December 5, 2013
Jones Lang LaSalle

"The distribution of goods has gone from a bulk process to an individualized delivery model, requiring the reinvention of the supporting real estate that supports moving individual packages where they need to go," said Craig Meyer, JLL's president of Industrial Brokerage. "We used to talk about pallet to store. Now we talk about dock to doorstep. We used to ship one massive delivery of 100 items to one location. Now those same 100 items must go to 100 different destinations"”gift-wrapped, overnight, and with a personal note."

As the industry reinvents its supply chain to this new omnichannel model, demand is soaring for the real estate that supports the new paradigm. As part of that process, e-commerce has evolved as a distinct real estate asset class, with six newly-defined primary types of facilities that retailers are relying on to win the delivery war. They are:

"¢ Mega e-fulfillment centers - where merchandise is stocked and picked at item level.

"¢ Parcel sortation centers (hubs) - where parcels are sorted before being forwarded to local parcel delivery centers.

"¢ Local parcel delivery centers - for "last-mile" fulfillment, these represent a new type of facility and consumer destination.

"¢ Local urban logistics depots - to ensure rapid order fulfillment particularly to service major cities, these destinations may be integrated or separate from retail store locations.

"¢ Return processing centers - to process returned items, many times these are located within mega-fulfillment centers, but typically centralized, requiring specialized inventory and materials handling needs.

"¢ Online food e-fulfillment centers - with appropriate refrigeration and cooling, typically for grocery delivery and similar functions.

"Customer convenience is driving an evolution in e-commerce logistics - from traditional warehouses to smaller distribution facilities in strategic locations that supports retailers' omnichannel objectives by prioritizing rapid throughput rather than storage," said Meyer. "In the next five years, we anticipate the market for e-commerce space to correlate with population trends so that consumers can receive their purchases not only when - but where - they want. And we expect that retailers will make returning purchases just as easy: the omnichannel strategy will drive a brand new class of distribution real estate such as return processing centers."

Source: Jones Lang LaSalle

Keywords: warehouse management, WMS, transportation management, TMS, supply chain management, logistics & supply chain, retail supply chain

RELATED CONTENT

RELATED VIDEOS

Logistics Facility Location Planning Logistics Outsourcing Transportation & Distribution Technology Warehouse Management Systems Consumer Packaged Goods Industrial Manufacturing Retail
KEYWORDS consumer packaged goods Facility Location & Network Design Industrial Manufacturing Jones Lang LaSalle Logistics logistics & supply chain Logistics Management: Facility Location Planning Logistics Outsourcing Retail retail supply chain Supply Chain Management Technology TMS Transportation & Distribution Transportation Management Warehouse Management Warehouse Management Systems WMS
  • Related Articles

    Industrial Real Estate Recovery Soars in Gateway Markets Like Philadelphia/Harrisburg and Inland Empire

    Looking to Real Estate Just to Cut Costs? Beware Major Financial, Operational Risks

    Trucking Innovation in Industrial Real Estate: A Catalyst for Growth?

  • Related Events

    Accelerate or Hesitate? Real-World Data on Post-COVID Supply Chain Planning

    AI in Multiparty Control Towers: Why enterprise-level AI doesn't work in supply chain management

  • Related Directories

    SnapFulfil

Jones Lang LaSalle

Report Finds Many U.S. Ports Look to Beef Up Infrastructure to Meet Expected Increases in Cargo Volumes

More from this author

Wake up to Coronavirus Updates and the latest Supply Chain News!

Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter

Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Popular Stories

  • Coronavirus-watch-Armada

    Virus Update: J&J Pause Could Last Several Weeks; Global Vaccine Production Nears 2 Billion

    Coronavirus
  • Shipping Costs

    Higher Shipping Costs Are Here to Stay, Sparking Price Increases

    Coronavirus
  • Ocado

    Kroger Is Amassing a Robot Army to Battle Amazon, Walmart

    Logistics
  • Shipping Logjam

    Reducing Supply-Chain Disruptions Through Integrated Logistics

    Coronavirus
  • Indoor Farm

    Vertical Farming: A Solution to Waste and Inefficiency in the Food Supply Chain?

    Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility

Digital Edition

Scb feb 2021 lg

2021 Supply Chain Management Resource Guide

VIEW THE LATEST ISSUE

Case Studies

  • Remote Implementation: A Dose of the Right Medicine for B2B Pharmacy

  • LSP Saves Customer $1.5 Million a Year With MPO Global Inbound Management

  • Auto Supplier Wows Key Client Using riskmethods Supply Chain Savvy

  • Integrating Shipping and Compliance Saves Conglomerate Millions

  • How a Consumer Goods Giant Upped Its On-Time Delivery Performance

Visit Our Sponsors

Yang Ming 6 River Systems ArcBest
Armada aThingz BluJay
Burris Logistics DSC Logistics DCSA (Digital Container Shipping Association)
DHL Resilience360 Flash Global Genpact
Geodis GEP GreyOrange
Honeywell Corporate Honeywell Intelligrated Infor
Inmar Kibo Commerce Kinaxis
Logility Magnitude Software MPO
Old Dominion Oliver Wight OpenSky
Paccurate Ports America Purolator
QAD Precision Red Classic Riskmethods
S&H Systems Snapfulfil TGW Systems
Tradepoint Atlantic Transportation Insights Watson Land Company
Westfalia Technologies Workjam
  • More From SCB
    • Featured Content
    • Video Library
    • Think Tank Blog
    • SupplyChainBrain Podcast
    • Whitepapers
    • Webinars
  • Digital Offerings
    • Digital Issue
    • Subscribe
    • Manage Your Subscription
    • Newsletters
  • Resources
    • Events Calendar
    • SCB's Great Supply Chain Partners
    • Supplier Directory
    • Case Study Showcase
    • Supply Chain Innovation Awards
    • 100 Great Partners Form
  • SCB Corporate
    • Advertise on SCB.COM
    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Us
    • Data Sharing Opt-Out

All content copyright ©2021 Keller International Publishing Corp All rights reserved. No reproduction, transmission or display is permitted without the written permissions of Keller International Publishing Corp

Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing