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6 Peak Season Fulfillment Challenges and Solutions

Peak Season Fulfillment Blog

Holiday and seasonal shopping are the busiest and most stressful times for retailers. With higher demand for products in stores and increased orders online, retailers are challenged to prepare for peak season fulfillment and supply enormous volumes of products in just a short peak shipping season. The 2022 peak season, however, will bring its own […]

SCI Partners with Bench to Launch New North American Distribution Model for their ECommerce Business

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TORONTO (ONTARIO), September 14, 2022 – SCI Group, a leading Canadian 3PL specializing in e-commerce fulfillment and transportation management, has partnered with Bench, an athleisure clothing brand, to create a cross-border ecommerce fulfilment solution for the U.S. market leveraging duty savings made available through Section 321. This direct-to-consumer strategy enables Bench to deliver to e-commerce […]

At SCI Our People Make Us, and Our Clients, Even Better

At SCI, we’ve been putting people first for over 30 years. Our 3,000+ employees are the reason why we are Canada’s leading business to consumer supply chain partner. We make our clients even better by working as an extension of their organization to successfully fulfill their promises to their customers. Watch the full video below […]

Tips on How to Manage Different Levels of Supply Chain Crises

Supply Chain Crisis Highway BC Floods

Over the past few years nearly everyone has felt the effects of widespread supply chain disruptions happening on a global and local scale. News reports of container shortages were soon followed by empty shelves at grocery stores. The micro-chip shortage has resulted in a back-log in automobile manufacturing and a scarcity of available cars. These […]

SCI Named One of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures

SCI is proud to share that we have been named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2021 by Waterstone Human Capital. This national program, now in its 18th year, recognizes best-in-class Canadian organizations for having cultures that have helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage. SCI’s culture journey started in 2017, […]

Top Six Supply Chain Challenges Solved

In an era defined by uncertainty, it can be harder than ever for supply chain teams to operate efficiently, let alone capture competitive advantages. In addition to facing down changing regulations, trade disputes, climate change and labour unrest, leaders need to take a more holistic, strategic view of the supply chain. This means supply chain […]

Meet our Collaborative Robots

People and technology working together to improve productivity, safety and order accuracy is one of the hallmarks of SCI’s warehouse innovation and automation programs. At SCI, we’re always looking for ways to make our workplace and our client service even better, and that’s why we use collaborative robots also known as cobots.  These autonomous collaborative […]

The Supply Chain Advantage – white paper

Learn how a modern, resilient supply chain delivers a competitive advantage with our free third party logistics white paper download. This paper looks at how organizations need to think differently about their supply chain. It looks at three key elements that need to work together to move past short-term cost savings to long-term strategic advantage:

CleanSlate UV – case study

CleanSlate UV was founded in 2014 with a mission to prevent the spread of germs on mobile devices. The CleanSlate UV Sanitizer is a hospital-grade device that uses medical-grade UV light to sanitize mobile devices in just 20 seconds. Today, this simple and effective product is deployed in over 800 healthcare, retail, hospitality and educational […]

Kiosk Logistics – How the Pandemic is Driving Rapid Kiosk Adoption

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on every industry, forcing businesses across Canada to come to terms with new operating environments. Many are looking for ways to deliver a positive employee and customer experience, while improving safety and reducing costs. Kiosks, or automated self-service devices, can play a key role in this. The […]

What is Supply Chain Resilience?

The past two decades have been turbulent for the global supply chain as political, climate and social disruptions continue to pose significant challenges. Most recently, of course, we’ve been contending with the COVID-19 disruption. This was followed by container shortages that resulted in empty shelves at grocery stores, micro-chip shortages that caused a back-log in […]