Why Speed of Deployment is the Competitive Edge in Grocery Order Picking 

In today’s grocery landscape, you can’t be offline for a minute. Online order volumes are rising, consumer expectations are growing, and traditional store operations are being pushed to adapt. Turn offline for a moment, and customers will soon find a new weekly place to shop. And once they’re gone, they’re gone.  

But while most conversations focus on picking speed or last-mile delivery, there’s one factor that often gets overlooked: deployment speed. 

At StrongPoint, we believe that the ability to go live quickly, and scale fast, is one of the most important strategic advantages a grocery retailer can have. 

Live in 2 Weeks: The StrongPoint Standard 

StrongPoint’s in-store Order Picking solution is hyper-fast to deploy. In fact, our customers can be fully operational in as little as two weeks. That’s not a theoretical promise, it’s been proven in the real world. 

Take Delivereasy, for example. Faced with the need to ramp up online fulfillment quickly, they deployed StrongPoint’s Order Picking system and were up and running with in-store picking live in grocery stores in just 14 days. 

And once the system is in place, onboarding additional locations is just as seamless. New stores can typically be onboarded in under a day. One grocery retail customer says they can setup a new store in under an hour (in a pinch, under 30 minutes).  

For store staff, training takes less than 10 minutes before they’re ready to start picking. 

Why Deployment Speed Is a Strategic Advantage 

Every week your solution isn’t live you’re losing online order capacity, missing out on incremental revenue and, falling behind competitors who can act faster.

Rapid deployment gives you the ability to move from decision to results quickly. It means stores can start fulfilling online orders more efficiently almost immediately, with minimal work needed. 

Designed for Peak Efficiency

StrongPoint’s system isn’t just quick to implement, it’s also incredibly easy for store teams to adopt. The interface is intuitive, the workflows are logical, and features like pick-by-light and smart route optimization make it simple for staff to reach picking efficiency. 

Most store employees reach peak picking efficiency within just a few shifts, with average performance hitting 240 units per hour (UPH), and some stores reaching up to 350 UPH. You don’t have to wait months to see the results. With StrongPoint, your team can be fully productive within days. 

Why Leading Grocers Rely on StrongPoint 

For decades, StrongPoint has been a trusted partner to some of the leading grocery retailers in Europe. Our solutions are purpose-built for the unique challenges of managing grocery e-commerce and making it as hyper-efficient as we possibly can. Speed of deployment is just as important as speed of picking.