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a day ago
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KIKO Milano Partners with Logistics Reply to Accelerate E-Commerce Delivery in the UK Market
TURIN, Italy, June 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logistics Reply, the Reply group company specialising in innovative supply chain solutions has partnered with KIKO Milano, the global cosmetics brand renowned for its cutting edge, high-quality beauty products, to transform its e-commerce operations in the UK. With rapid growth in the UK market and a rising demand for online shopping and fast home delivery, KIKO recognized the need to evolve its supply chain operations. To meet these challenges, KIKO opened a new dark store in London and selected Logistics Reply with its LEA Reply™ Warehouse Management System (WMS) to build a more scalable and agile logistics infrastructure. A dark store is a retail distribution centre that operates like a traditional store but is closed to the public and used exclusively to fulfil online orders. In just four months from project kick-off to go-live, the dark store was fully operational and managed entirely by KIKO's in-house team. The new set up has significantly improved both delivery times and product availability across the region. "Our mission is to delight customers with innovative, high-quality products delivered with speed and reliability" said Paul Devin, Managing Director UK at KIKO. "This solution has allowed us to cut our e-commerce delivery times in half. Logistics Reply has been a trusted partner throughout the project, their responsiveness, attention to our business needs, and ongoing support have been outstanding." Devin added. With its microservices-based architecture, LEA Reply™ offers the flexibility to support a wide range of warehouse needs, from simple to complex, by activating only the necessary services. This modular approach was key to aligning seamlessly with KIKO's operational requirements, enabling the rapid start-up of the new dark store while ensuring scalability for future growth. "Our deep expertise in e-commerce and flexible technology stack allowed us to deliver a tailored, high-performance solution," said Enrico Nebuloni, Executive Partner at Reply. "The success of this project is a testament to strong collaboration between our teams in Italy and the UK, and to the power of combining visionary leadership with scalable innovation." This partnership represents a strategic milestone in KIKO's broader digital transformation journey and reinforces its commitment to operational excellence and an exceptional customer experience. To discover more about KIKO's transformation and Logistics Reply's next-generation supply chain solutions, visit: Delivering Beauty Faster: KIKO Milano's Logistics Evolution. KIKO MilanoKIKO MILANO was founded in 1997 in Milan and since then has revolutionized how cosmetics are sold globally. KIKO identifies the major beauty trends of the moment and make them accessible to all. Combining the quality and creativity rooted in its Italian DNA, KIKO has conquered the most demanding and diverse beauty addicts with an endless range of shades, tones and textures to satisfy every professional and personalized make-up requirement. The brand has over 1250 stores and is available in 70 markets. Logistics Reply Logistics Reply is the Reply group company specialised in delivering state-of-the-art software to transform supply chains, blending modularity with enhanced connectivity, to meet the dynamic demands of modern warehousing and logistics. Our solutions ensure seamless collaboration between systems, humans and machines, creating a digital footprint orchestrating advanced automation. We optimise warehouse efficiency through smart robotics and enhance operational decision-making with AI. With over 25 years of pioneering experience, we lead clients through their digital transformation, ensuring rapid value and lasting our innovative software solutions at Reply Reply [EXM, STAR: REY, ISIN: IT0005282865] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. As a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports major European industrial groups in the telecom and media; industry and services; banking and insurance and public sectors in defining and developing business models enabled by the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the internet of things. Reply's services include: consulting, system integration and digital services. View source version on Contacts Press: Reply Fabio Tel. +390117711594 Irene Tel. +39 02 535761 Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
KIKO Milano Partners with Logistics Reply to Accelerate E-Commerce Delivery in the UK Market
TURIN, Italy, June 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logistics Reply, the Reply group company specialising in innovative supply chain solutions has partnered with KIKO Milano, the global cosmetics brand renowned for its cutting edge, high-quality beauty products, to transform its e-commerce operations in the UK. With rapid growth in the UK market and a rising demand for online shopping and fast home delivery, KIKO recognized the need to evolve its supply chain operations. To meet these challenges, KIKO opened a new dark store in London and selected Logistics Reply with its LEA Reply™ Warehouse Management System (WMS) to build a more scalable and agile logistics infrastructure. A dark store is a retail distribution centre that operates like a traditional store but is closed to the public and used exclusively to fulfil online orders. In just four months from project kick-off to go-live, the dark store was fully operational and managed entirely by KIKO's in-house team. The new set up has significantly improved both delivery times and product availability across the region. "Our mission is to delight customers with innovative, high-quality products delivered with speed and reliability" said Paul Devin, Managing Director UK at KIKO. "This solution has allowed us to cut our e-commerce delivery times in half. Logistics Reply has been a trusted partner throughout the project, their responsiveness, attention to our business needs, and ongoing support have been outstanding." Devin added. With its microservices-based architecture, LEA Reply™ offers the flexibility to support a wide range of warehouse needs, from simple to complex, by activating only the necessary services. This modular approach was key to aligning seamlessly with KIKO's operational requirements, enabling the rapid start-up of the new dark store while ensuring scalability for future growth. "Our deep expertise in e-commerce and flexible technology stack allowed us to deliver a tailored, high-performance solution," said Enrico Nebuloni, Executive Partner at Reply. "The success of this project is a testament to strong collaboration between our teams in Italy and the UK, and to the power of combining visionary leadership with scalable innovation." This partnership represents a strategic milestone in KIKO's broader digital transformation journey and reinforces its commitment to operational excellence and an exceptional customer experience. To discover more about KIKO's transformation and Logistics Reply's next-generation supply chain solutions, visit: Delivering Beauty Faster: KIKO Milano's Logistics Evolution. KIKO MilanoKIKO MILANO was founded in 1997 in Milan and since then has revolutionized how cosmetics are sold globally. KIKO identifies the major beauty trends of the moment and make them accessible to all. Combining the quality and creativity rooted in its Italian DNA, KIKO has conquered the most demanding and diverse beauty addicts with an endless range of shades, tones and textures to satisfy every professional and personalized make-up requirement. The brand has over 1250 stores and is available in 70 markets. Logistics Reply Logistics Reply is the Reply group company specialised in delivering state-of-the-art software to transform supply chains, blending modularity with enhanced connectivity, to meet the dynamic demands of modern warehousing and logistics. Our solutions ensure seamless collaboration between systems, humans and machines, creating a digital footprint orchestrating advanced automation. We optimise warehouse efficiency through smart robotics and enhance operational decision-making with AI. With over 25 years of pioneering experience, we lead clients through their digital transformation, ensuring rapid value and lasting our innovative software solutions at Reply Reply [EXM, STAR: REY, ISIN: IT0005282865] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. As a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports major European industrial groups in the telecom and media; industry and services; banking and insurance and public sectors in defining and developing business models enabled by the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the internet of things. Reply's services include: consulting, system integration and digital services. View source version on Contacts Press: Reply Fabio Tel. +390117711594 Irene Tel. +39 02 535761 Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
KIKO Milano Partners with Logistics Reply to Accelerate E-Commerce Delivery in the UK Market
TURIN, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Logistics Reply, the Reply group company specialising in innovative supply chain solutions has partnered with KIKO Milano, the global cosmetics brand renowned for its cutting edge, high-quality beauty products, to transform its e-commerce operations in the UK. With rapid growth in the UK market and a rising demand for online shopping and fast home delivery, KIKO recognized the need to evolve its supply chain operations. To meet these challenges, KIKO opened a new dark store in London and selected Logistics Reply with its LEA Reply™ Warehouse Management System (WMS) to build a more scalable and agile logistics infrastructure. A dark store is a retail distribution centre that operates like a traditional store but is closed to the public and used exclusively to fulfil online orders. In just four months from project kick-off to go-live, the dark store was fully operational and managed entirely by KIKO's in-house team. The new set up has significantly improved both delivery times and product availability across the region. ' Our mission is to delight customers with innovative, high-quality products delivered with speed and reliability' said Paul Devin, Managing Director UK at KIKO. ' This solution has allowed us to cut our e-commerce delivery times in half. Logistics Reply has been a trusted partner throughout the project, their responsiveness, attention to our business needs, and ongoing support have been outstanding.' Devin added. With its microservices-based architecture, LEA Reply™ offers the flexibility to support a wide range of warehouse needs, from simple to complex, by activating only the necessary services. This modular approach was key to aligning seamlessly with KIKO's operational requirements, enabling the rapid start-up of the new dark store while ensuring scalability for future growth. ' Our deep expertise in e-commerce and flexible technology stack allowed us to deliver a tailored, high-performance solution,' said Enrico Nebuloni, Executive Partner at Reply. ' The success of this project is a testament to strong collaboration between our teams in Italy and the UK, and to the power of combining visionary leadership with scalable innovation.' This partnership represents a strategic milestone in KIKO's broader digital transformation journey and reinforces its commitment to operational excellence and an exceptional customer experience. To discover more about KIKO's transformation and Logistics Reply's next-generation supply chain solutions, visit: Delivering Beauty Faster: KIKO Milano's Logistics Evolution. KIKO Milano KIKO MILANO was founded in 1997 in Milan and since then has revolutionized how cosmetics are sold globally. KIKO identifies the major beauty trends of the moment and make them accessible to all. Combining the quality and creativity rooted in its Italian DNA, KIKO has conquered the most demanding and diverse beauty addicts with an endless range of shades, tones and textures to satisfy every professional and personalized make-up requirement. The brand has over 1250 stores and is available in 70 markets. Logistics Reply Logistics Reply is the Reply group company specialised in delivering state-of-the-art software to transform supply chains, blending modularity with enhanced connectivity, to meet the dynamic demands of modern warehousing and logistics. Our solutions ensure seamless collaboration between systems, humans and machines, creating a digital footprint orchestrating advanced automation. We optimise warehouse efficiency through smart robotics and enhance operational decision-making with AI. With over 25 years of pioneering experience, we lead clients through their digital transformation, ensuring rapid value and lasting quality. Discover our innovative software solutions at Reply Reply [EXM, STAR: REY, ISIN: IT0005282865] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. As a network of highly specialised companies, Reply supports major European industrial groups in the telecom and media; industry and services; banking and insurance and public sectors in defining and developing business models enabled by the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the internet of things. Reply's services include: consulting, system integration and digital services.
Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
OpenAI's former head of research said vibe coding isn't going to make engineering jobs obsolete — for now
AI is not going to replace human software engineers just yet, says OpenAI's former research chief. Bob McGrew, who left OpenAI last year, said product managers can vibe code "really cool prototypes." But engineers still have to build the products in case they need to troubleshoot it, he said. McGrew, who left OpenAI in November, said on the latest episode of Sequoia Capital's "Training Data" podcast that product managers can make "really cool prototypes" with vibe coding. But human engineers will still be brought in to "rewrite it from scratch." "If you are given a code base that you don't understand — this is a classic software engineering question — is that a liability or is it an asset? Right? And the classic answer is that it's a liability," McGrew said of software made with vibe coding. "You have to maintain this thing. You don't know how it works, no one knows how it works. That's terrible," he continued. McGrew said that in the next one or two years, coding will be done by a mix of human engineers working with AI tools like Cursor and AI agents like Devin working in the background. He added that while the liability that comes with using agents to code has gone down, it is "still, net, a liability." Human engineers are needed to design and "understand the code base at a high level," McGrew said. This is so that when something goes wrong or if a project "becomes too complicated for AI to understand," a human engineer can help break the problem down into parts for an AI to solve. McGrew did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. The rise of AI has spurred fears of companies replacing their software engineers with AI. In October, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said on an earnings call that the search giant was using AI to write more than 25% of its new code. Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator, said in March that a quarter of the founders in the startup incubator's 2025 winter batch used AI to code their software. "For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated. That's not a typo," Tan wrote in an X post. On Tuesday, Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, said in a memo to employees that AI will " reduce our total corporate workforce" and provide "efficiency gains."
Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
OpenAI's former head of research said vibe coding isn't going to make engineering jobs obsolete — for now
Bob McGrew, the former chief research officer at OpenAI, said professional software engineers are not going to lose their jobs to vibe coding just yet. McGrew, who left OpenAI in November, said on the latest episode of Sequoia Capital's "Training Data" podcast that product managers can make "really cool prototypes" with vibe coding. But human engineers will still be brought in to "rewrite it from scratch." "If you are given a code base that you don't understand — this is a classic software engineering question — is that a liability or is it an asset? Right? And the classic answer is that it's a liability," McGrew said of software made with vibe coding. "You have to maintain this thing. You don't know how it works, no one knows how it works. That's terrible," he continued. McGrew said that in the next one or two years, coding will be done by a mix of human engineers working with AI tools like Cursor and AI agents like Devin working in the background. He added that while the liability that comes with using agents to code has gone down, it is "still, net, a liability." Human engineers are needed to design and "understand the code base at a high level," McGrew said. This is so that when something goes wrong or if a project "becomes too complicated for AI to understand," a human engineer can help break the problem down into parts for an AI to solve. McGrew did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. The rise of AI has spurred fears of companies replacing their software engineers with AI. In October, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said on an earnings call that the search giant was using AI to write more than 25% of its new code. Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator, said in March that a quarter of the founders in the startup incubator's 2025 winter batch used AI to code their software. "For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated. That's not a typo," Tan wrote in an X post. On Tuesday, Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, said in a memo to employees that AI will " reduce our total corporate workforce" and provide "efficiency gains." "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs," Jassy said.
