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The competition watchdog, the ACCC will conduct a series of public hearings from 7 to 22 November as part of its ongoing Supermarkets Inquiry.

Wholesale distributor Metcash announced it will integrate Dematic’s goods-to-person (GTP) order fulfilment solution within its Melbourne distribution centre (DC).

Challenge

Metcash, Australia's leading wholesale distribution and marketing company, was looking to become a more agile business to achieve faster delivery and lower costs. It wanted to onboard new customers faster and offer them improved services with less downtime, but this required re-engineering systems at the core of day-to-day operations. Its legacy architecture, including an aging enterprise service bus (ESB) built on TIBCO BusinessWorks 5, was holding the wholesale giant back from achieving its long-term goals.

Australia’s competition wachdog the ACCC has given interim authorisation to supermarket operators to coordinate to ensure a “fair and equitable” distribution of fresh food, groceries and other household items during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Supermarket and retail giant Woolworths is taking its business into one of the world’s giant consumer markets, sealing a deal with China’s largest online business-to-consumer market, Alibaba’s Tmall Global.