The Home Depot discussed this week its IT investment and strategy that focuses on the customer buying experience. The company’s Common Order Management system, or COM, is the largest IT project in the history of The Home Depot.
COM is an inventory visibility platform that looks at millions of deliveries through small and large delivery trucks, direct fulfillment to DCs and in-store pick up transactions. COM will help identify the best fulfillment option for a customer, while allowing Home Depot to leverage its omni-channel options.
The focus on this area is based on the fact that 1) the retailer’s fastest growing ecommerce channel is buy-online, pick up in sore, 2) the average ticket for ecommerce transactions are considerably higher than physical in store transactions and 3) ecommerce chat and email are growing in product information exchange.
“The IT investments we are making are really to optimize the whole supply chain offering,” said Home Depot Senior VP and President-online, Kevin Hofmann.
Source: Chain Store Age
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