Fillogic

Fillogic closes $13M Series A, grabs third spot on FreightTech 25

Logistics platform Fillogic announced it has closed its $13 million Series A funding round led by Revelry Venture Partners (RVP) with participation from existing investors including XRC Ventures, Closed Loop Partners, Venture 53, Groundbreak Ventures and Green Egg Ventures.

Fillogic leverages what it has coined “channel-free logistics,” a competing fulfillment model to the traditional omnichannel experience.

According to the company, shifting the focus from channels to a channel-free approach...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fillogic-closes-13m-series-a-grabs-third-spot-on-freighttech-25

Reconfiguring retail space to improve fulfillment

This fireside chat recap is from Wednesday, the second day of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Effective middle-mile management

DETAILS: A discussion with Bill Thayer, founder and CEO of Fillogic, on ways of better managing the middle mile and fulfillment.

KEY QUOTES FROM THAYER:

On using existing infrastructure to build density in middle mile:

“Malls are smack dab in the middle of the middle mile. … We take excess space in malls and provide the technology and operations...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reconfiguring-retail-space-to-improve-fulfillment

Returns made easy: Narvar teams with Fillogic for new retail option

back to stock returns sign on cart

Narvar is tapping into the Fillogic network to provide another option for retailers to handle e-commerce returns.

Through the partnership, Fillogic will pick up merchandise returned to Narvar drop-off locations for sortation and aggregation. According to the companies, this will speed the process of getting those items back into retailers’ inventory by as much as 70%.

“Narvar and Fillogic share a common goal — helping retailers and brands streamline the returns process and build stronger lifelong...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/narvar-fillogic-create-ecommerce-returns-platform

Check Call with Filllogic: The final-mile sprint

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, host Mary O’Connell joins Bill Thayer and Rob Caucci, co-founders of Fillogic, to discuss the key components needed to create and build a successful final-mile delivery solution.

Key quotes:

“Historically supply chains have been very centralized. It’s a half-million-square-foot building in the middle of a corn field in Ohio, and if you’re trying to get a package out of that facility to New York or Los Angeles, there are a lot of hops along the way that make...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-with-filllogic-the-final-mile-sprint

‘People are gonna be pulling their hair out’: Supply chain execs predict chaotic holiday peak

Shortage of drivers and workers will lead to chaotic holiday peak season, supply chain experts say

In the lead-up to last year’s peak holiday season, panic spread like wildfire. Members of the media predicted daily shortfalls of millions of packages and devastating delays, but as it turned out, there was much ado about nothing. Despite handling record levels of volume, the major U.S. carriers posted similar or slightly better on-time rates than during the 2019 peak.

That’s because there wasn’t really much of a peak in 2020 –– consumers were still adjusting to the new normal of the e-commerce...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/people-are-gonna-be-pulling-their-hair-out-supply-chain-execs-predict-chaotic-holiday-peak

Why you should do your winter holiday shopping today

Supply chain backups mean you should do your Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday shopping now

Murphy’s law states that if something can go wrong, it will. Murphy never informed us that everything would go wrong all at once. Even the biggest pessimist couldn’t have predicted the scale of the supply chain issues that plague us today, but that doesn’t change the reality. The supply chain didn’t just fracture a pinky finger — it broke every bone in its body, and retailers are now scrambling to prepare their inventories for the busy winter holiday season. 

For consumers, that means the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-you-should-do-your-winter-holiday-shopping-today

Fillogic and the metamorphosis of physical retail

Fillogic microdistribution hubs in malls logistics network

When was the last time you went to a shopping mall? Don’t remember? Well, you’re not alone. Malls have been on the decline since the turn of the century for a wide variety of reasons. Big department stores are closing down left and right, the real estate sector is suffering due to COVID-19 and e-commerce sales have more than doubled in the last five years, all of which have contributed to the rise of online shopping and the decline of physical retail.

Malls may appear to be a lost cause. But in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fillogic-and-the-metamorphosis-of-physical-retail

Fillogic secures $2.5M seed funding to expand mall distribution hubs

Fillogic, which describes itself as a Logistics-as-a-Service platform for retailers, has closed a $2.5 million seed round funding, led by James McCann, chairman and CEO of Food Retail Ventures. McCann will join Fillogic’s board.

The round brings to $3.5 million the company’s total funding to date. Additional investors include Jamestown LP, GroundBreak Ventures, Revelry Ventures Partners, XRC Labs and Green Egg Ventures.

“We started Fillogic to transform the traditional retail ecosystem into an...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/fillogic-secures-2-5m-seed-funding-to-expand-mall-distribution-hubs

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