Accelerating the international expansion of Joules across borders.
Joules is a clothing and homeware company with a reputation as one of Britain’s best-loved lifestyle brands. Tom Joule started out 30 years ago by selling clothes at outdoor events – quickly realizing that, while his customers were a bright and colorful bunch, their clothes were quite the contrary. Since then Joules has given its products broad international appeal, delivering significant sales growth and further expansion across channels, product categories and target markets.
THE HIGHLIGHTS
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Management of Joules’ entire global supply chain through a single web-based portal
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Significant transportation and fulfillment cost savings
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Faster container processing at UK ports by monitoring supplier compliance
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Real-time visibility of peak season shipments to optimize capacity at the UK distribution centre
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Enabling growth across all sales channels and into new international markets
HEAR FROM RACHAEL WILLIAMS
CHALLENGE
Joules needed a flexible logistics solution that would support wholesale rest-of-world growth, while also having the potential to help their UK operation process goods more efficiently. They chose to partner with SEKO Logistics to manage their international expansion and year-on-year growth plans, and also to give their merchandisers and buyers unprecedented real-time visibility of Joules’ growing supply chain.
SOLUTION
SEKO manages deliveries from all sourcing locations in Asia to Joules’ UK distribution centre and to the US, including managing all customs and compliance requirements. The service also involves managing the global supply of products to Joules’ other wholesale markets through their Hong Kong warehouse – as well as receiving deliveries from suppliers in China, and managing the direct fulfillment of customer orders outside of the EU and US markets. Meanwhile SEKO360's DCM PO Management function gives Joules complete supply chain visibility, enabling them to automate dispatches and control distribution costs – and full integration with SEKO360 WMS module creates ‘plug in’ opportunities to use SEKO’s warehouses globally.
RESULT
In the first twelve months of working together, SEKO managed over 10 million product units for Joules. In addition to growth in the UK and US, Joules has continued to expand its global footprint, using SEKO’s warehouse in Asia to fulfill wholesale orders for customers in markets including Taiwan, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and Australia. In the second half of 2019, Joules reported a 14% rise in store sales, a 16% growth in retail sales and a 19% year-on-year boost in ecommerce sales. International revenues over this period were up 26%, to represent 11% of the company’s total business.
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