We bring DTC brands into retail
Landing on the shelves of dm, REWE or Douglas is the biggest growth lever for DTC brands – and the biggest operational hurdle: EDI integration, exact palletizing, time-slot deliveries and strict SLAs. Zenfulfillment® takes care of exactly this complexity.
Store deliveries, central warehouses and promotional business all run on the same platform that powers your DTC business. One inventory, one system, two channels. You negotiate the listing, we deliver retail-compliant from the very first pallet.
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Automate your B2B shipping
In B2B, effort isn't driven by order size, but by the number of manual steps. We cut them to zero. Retail orders come into ZenOS via EDI, CSV or API and are automatically checked, prioritized and assigned. The system knows every retailer's requirements – pallet height, label position, delivery time slot – and steers picking and packing accordingly.
Routing picks the freight carrier from more than 40 providers. Your team only steps in for real exceptions – even when promotional goods ship to 500 stores at once.
EDI, CSV or API: orders flow straight into fulfillment, with no manual intervention
Palletizing, labeling, packing specs & time slots exactly to the retailer's SLA
Choice of warehouse, shipping method and carrier based on cost, transit time and priority
Benefit from standardized processes for leading retail chains
Every retailer has its own rulebook, and if you don't know it, you learn the hard way: rejections, penalty fees and missed time slots. We've already turned these rulebooks into standard processes for Europe's biggest retail chains: EDI message types, GS1 labeling, palletizing schemes, SSCC labeling, time-slot booking and compliance documentation.
For you, that means no project per retailer and no custom solution per listing. You give us the order, we deliver audit-proof to the requirements of dm, Rossmann, REWE, Douglas or Breuninger – as if we'd done it a hundred times before. Because we have.
Predictable cost tiers for pallet shipping
B2B deals are calculated on margins, not hope. That's why we work with clear pricing logic and transparent volume tiers that you know before your first offer to the retailer. As your pallet volume grows, your cost per unit goes down, because handling, consolidation and freight rates scale – not the other way around.
For every listing, you know what delivery, picking and packing cost, so you can negotiate terms with the retailer with confidence. No hidden surcharges, no surprises on your monthly invoice. In retail, planning certainty isn't a nice-to-have – it's the prerequisite for keeping growth profitable.
Sell your products in bulk and double your revenue in just a few weeks
Once logistics stops being a bottleneck, big orders suddenly become easy.
Fast listings, promotional business, rollouts across multiple stores.
Reliable data protects you from out-of-stocks and from hitting minimum remaining shelf life.
See at any time which batches are in stock and where they were delivered.
Batch and best-before data is captured completely,
managed and applied at order level.
End-to-end batch and BBD tracking
In retail, traceability isn't a recommendation – it's part of the contract. Retailers require minimum remaining shelf life on delivery, and in a recall it has to be clear within hours which batch is in which store. ZenOS captures batch and best-before data at goods receipt, tracks it at pallet level and applies it to every order: FEFO picking, automatic blocking of stock below the required remaining shelf life, and alerts before inventory becomes critical.
You can see at any time which batches are in stock and where they were delivered. That protects your sellability, prevents rejections at the loading dock and turns audits into a formality.
Operations on autopilot
Handling more volume with more staff is the most expensive way to scale. We take the other route: automated workflows take over the steps that usually eat up time in B2B fulfillment – order checks, batch allocation, pallet planning, document creation, delivery notification to the recipient. Every touchpoint removed means one less error and a shorter lead time from goods receipt to loading dock.
The result shows in costs per unit that fall with volume instead of rising, and in productivity that stays stable even in complex setups with central warehouses, store splits and promotional goods. That makes scaling profitable – not just possible.
Boost your efficiency with packaging units
Retailers don't order in pieces, but in cases, displays and pallets. If your warehouse is set up for single items, you pick too slowly and too expensively. Packaging units flip that around: at goods receipt, products are recorded as a logical unit – the case of 12, the display, the mixed pallet – and picked and loaded that way.
One pick instead of twelve, one label instead of many. That lowers handling costs, reduces errors and makes deliveries predictable, because quantities and dimensions match the order specs exactly.
Before we started working with Zenfulfillment, retail was barely scalable for us operationally. Too many special requirements, too much room for error, too little planning certainty. Within a few weeks, we were retail-ready – including EDI, pallet logic, time-slot deliveries and SLA-compliant processes.
We successfully launched our first national retail deal with the drugstore chain dm and more than doubled sales (+112%) in just 8 weeks. Delivery reliability was consistently >99%. What stood out most for us was the scalability: promotional business and store rollouts ran without extra staff or much work on our side.
Ready to unlock your full potential?
As a growth driver, we've played a significant part in the success of more than 350 leading ecommerce brands. Here are the next steps to get started with Zenfulfillment
1. Free audit
Our fulfillment experts analyze your current setup to develop a custom strategy that optimizes your delivery experience and helps you save costs.
2. Your quote
Get transparent pricing tailored to your goals and requirements.
3. ZenOS demo
See our technology in action and automate your logistics with our tailored solutions.
4. Warehouse visit
See our fulfillment hubs for yourself and meet the operations team.
Operational excellence meets modern software
– Secure your competitive edge
Operational excellence meets modern software
– Secure your competitive edge