RTIH retail technology awards: Supply Chain Innovation shortlist announced

Metapack, Detego and Food Rocket are among the nominees in the Supply Chain category at the 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards.

This award highlights companies that are re-inventing and re-thinking retail supply chains via innovative advancements in technology.

2021 shortlist as follows

Detego

Detego is a global RFID software provider focused on retail. It helps retailers to increase accuracy, efficiency, and revenue uplift across the value chain.

Customers include Adidas, Levi’s, and BESTSELLER. The company’s platform is built to support factories, distribution centres and stores to count and track individual items across the supply chain with complete accuracy.

Food Rocket

Food Rocket is a San Francisco-based FoodTech startup that provides grocery delivery in California. 

Its business model is based on AI enabled technologies to manage warehouse stocks, forecast demand and optimise delivery time by predicting the closest dark store that offers the fastest delivery time and the lowest costs of putting together and delivering the order. 

MyFBAPrep

MyFBAPrep works and integrates with some of the biggest names in the e-commerce industry, including Deliverr, Project Verte, and 3PL Central.

It is powered by its proprietary SaaS-based technology called Preptopia. This acts as an omnichannel marketplace matching e-commerce companies with warehouses that have the capabilities to fulfil their orders quickly and efficiently. 

Metapack

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, retailers have started to reimagine their supply chains and the purpose of their stores and are looking to implement technologies such as Metapack’s Ship-from-Store that provide them with the flexibility to fulfil online orders from physical locations.  

What’s next?

We will now ask our judging panel to cast their votes and provide their feedback. The winner will be revealed on 8th December at a roundtable discussion/networking event in central London.

Our thanks to the following retail leaders for offering their assistance and expertise this year.

Mike Cadden, IT Director (Sales, Marketing and Customer Services), Office Depot 

Hayley Meenan-Wilkin, E-Commerce Manager, Fishpools

Martin Newman, Founder, The Customer First Group 

Paula Bobbett, E-Commerce Director, Boots UK

Tiffany Lung, Retail Analyst 

Nadine Neatrour, Marketing Director, Selfridges 

Simon Curtis, Sales and Marketing Director, PMC Retail 

Christine Russo, Digital and Physical Retail Consultant

Gerald Dawson, Business Consultant and Finance Director, The iOutlet and HANX

Sharon Peters, Head Of Technology - Marks and Spencer, HR, Finance, Corporate Services and M&S Bank

Luke Phillips, Head of IT Delivery, Studio Retail

Third time around

Now into their third year, the awards, sponsored by PMC, StoreSpace, Critizr, Marxent, QVALON and Selazar, celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.

Stay tuned for more shortlists in the coming days!