ModusLink Announces their New FaaS Product that Simplifies Global Merchandise Fulfillment

Smyrna, TN — May 12, 2022 — ModusLink announces the launch of their FaaS – Fulfillment as a Service, a product engineered to streamline the fulfillment process and reduce costs while improving the customer experience.

Fawaz Khalil, President and CEO of ModusLink, explained “FaaS delivers a complete array of fulfillment solutions that enable clients to enhance customer satisfaction and at the same time simplify fulfillment. And, because of our extensive network of fulfillment locations, we are able to offer very competitive rates and economical next-day delivery.”

FaaS provides the value and benefits of ModusLink’s access to local carriers which avoids expensive air freight costs and features the clarity of a single order management system: one IT API via one API infrastructure.  The resulting lower costs from improved partner management and integration mean that businesses of almost any size can more easily deliver the advantages of world-class customer service.

“We developed our FaaS system to streamline ‘local fulfillment services on a global scale’ for all of our current and future clients” noted Khalil. “Benefits to customers include lower integration costs, lower management costs, and lower freight rates. These features have the advantages of regular operational savings that will repeat again and again.”

ModusLink’s FaaS will enable organizations to provide extraordinary “Fulfillment as a Service” to meet global opportunities with the speed and economy of local attention.

About Steel Connect, Inc.

 Steel Connect, Inc. is a holding company whose wholly-owned subsidiary, ModusLink Corporation, serves the supply chain management markets.

ModusLink is an end-to-end global supply chain solutions and e-commerce provider serving clients in markets such as consumer electronics, communications, computing, software and retail. ModusLink designs and executes critical elements in its clients’ global supply chains to improve speed to market, product customization, flexibility, cost, quality and service. These benefits are delivered through a combination of industry expertise, innovative service solutions, and integrated operations, proven business processes, an expansive global footprint and world-class technology. ModusLink also produces and licenses an entitlement management solution powered by its enterprise-class Poetic software, which offers a complete solution for activation, provisioning, entitlement subscription, and data collection from physical goods (connected products) and digital products. ModusLink has an integrated network of strategically located facilities in various countries, including numerous sites throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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