MicksGarage

Mar 6, 2022

The software’s capability spread by word of mouth. “A lot of Irish retailers were coming into MicksGarage and saying we now have a significant ecommerce operation but we’re having to do 24-hour shifts, we’re having to turn orders and we’re having to throw bodies at this because we have an IT stack that doesn’t cater for high-volume order picking. “We’ll have 15 customers practically within 10 months. So we have obviously struck a cord. We’ve got some great customers on it like Bookstation, McCabes Pharmacy, Art and Hobby and Tipperary Crystal and we’re currently implementing 10 more.” He said that software appealed to companies in two ways. “For whoever is responsible for ecommerce, it flips the warehouse from being a bottleneck to being an engine for growth. For the finance director, they love it because their resources are actually pick packing (in the warehouse) at a very efficient level. With our system in place you typically double the capacity of the warehouse with exiting staff.” Crean said they will look more deeply into strategy later this year. “Right now it has been funded internally. We only got our website up there a couple of weeks ago but that was because we were too busy signing up and implementing customers to look at our marketing effort which is a good complaint. “This year we had a target to get to 20 customers, we will comfortably beat that. Once we have those 10 implemented, which we expect to have done by early June, we’re going to sit down and strategically look at our options to grow the business out. How do we look at taking the software further afield? “We’re actively chasing customers in the UK to do our first remote implementation of it and thereafter, given that it’s a SaaS business, and given the fact that ecommerce is the number one medium people buy product these days, we certainly feel there is a global opportunity to this.” Most Watched