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The Ins and Outs of Warehousing Services

When you need to store a lot of products for distribution, it can make a lot of sense to look into purchasing or renting an empty warehouse.

After all, you just need somewhere to store your inventory. But what do you do once you have that inventory stacked in your new warehouse? If your warehouse is bigger than a storage room, you’re going to have to have a system for organizing and retrieving that inventory, employees who can pack it up and suppliers who will ship it out.

That seems like a lot of expense just to move a little extra inventory when you could be hiring a warehousing service to expand and simplify your distribution process instead. Warehousing and distribution services can actually be great time and money savers, plus their expert package handling capabilities improve customer satisfaction immensely.

How Warehousing Helps Small Business

When you’re running a business that does a lot of packing and shipping, hiring a warehouse service is a smart move. Why reinvent the wheel? These facilities already have systems in place to store your products in areas where they’ll be easy to retrieve, marking them with bar codes or other internal labels so that the right item is pulled for each order.

The warehouse workers have plenty of experience in pick, pack and ship, ensuring that your items are accurately packaged in boxes that get you the best shipping prices. Because warehouses buy shipping supplies in bulk, you’ll also save on material costs. Even better, you won’t have to store your inventory on site, so you can downsize into a smaller building or expand your existing retail location to create more opportunities for customers to interact with products and staff.

Perhaps the best thing about having a warehouse service backing you up is how the service handles seasonal supply and demand. Instead of having a warehouse that’s partially empty most of the year, or one that’s overflowing as the holiday season approaches, you can rent as much or as little space as it takes to get the job done. Your warehouse will accept your deliveries, store them and manage your inventory to prevent frustrating back orders.

When you bring a warehouse service into your logistics picture, you’ll quickly find that the day-to-day stresses of picking, packing and shipping your products disappear entirely. When someone more experienced and efficient is handling the reins, you’re free to focus your efforts on marketing or making more sales without having to worry whether you’re out of packing tape.

 

April 16, 2015
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