Is Your Commercial Warehouse Improving Your Shipping Process? It Could Be

1. Is Your Commercial Warehouse Improving Your Shipping Process? It Could Be

2. There are obvious benefits of using a commercial warehouse in Vancouver. With limited space and storage at a premium, a commercial warehouse allows you to maximize what little space you have, while ensuring your goods are kept safe and are accessible for easy transport. However, if that’s all that your commercial warehouse is doing, you could be missing out on some pretty significant opportunities to streamline your supply chain and improve your customer service. If you want to fully take advantage of all the commercial warehouse services available in and around Vancouver that make reaching your end customer easier, here are four ways a commercial warehouse can be helping support your business.

3. 1. Warehouse and Distribution Services Your commercial warehouse is already receiving your goods, storing, and preparing them for shipment. Using your commercial warehouse to manage some aspects of your distribution is a natural extension of the services they are already providing. Value-added services in the category include: • Order fulfillment • Pick and pack services, including packaging, labeling, barcode, and kitting • Preparing retail-ready display pallets • Computerized inventory management, accessible in real-time from a client portal

4. 2. E-Commerce Solutions Businesses have seen a significant portion of B2B and retail commerce shifting online; a commercial warehouse that can incorporate e-commerce solutions is a highly valuable addition to your supply chain. With the right partner, you can outsource fulfillment of your online orders, expediting the process and freeing up valuable time to focus on more important aspects of your business. Your commercial warehouse can: • Offer same-day order fulfillment • Prepare and label orders for shipment • Track inventory, shipping status, and receipts • Manage returns • Facilitate drop shipment and cross-docking for goods in transit • Provide real-time inventory status

5. 3. Transportation Unless your business operates its own fleet of trucks, taking advantage of transportation services commercial warehouse can offer significant savings. With outsourced transportation services, you can take advantage of their expertise in the field, existing partnerships, and economies of scale that come from partnering with an established transportation channel. Other value-added services include: provided through your • LTL (less than truckload) service • FTL (full truckload) service • Custom freight programs • Intermodal freight solutions

6. 4. Provide a Better Customer Experience The fewer contact points required, the easier it is to streamline shipping and improve customer satisfaction. By outsourcing your shipping to your commercial warehouse, you are speeding up the shipping process, a huge bonus in the age of Amazon where customers expect speed, and also improving the overall process by providing: • Seamless shopping and shipping • Real-time visibility of inventory • Delivery tracking and status updates • Faster, cheaper delivery

7. Commercial warehouse shipping and distribution services provide real value to businesses looking to streamline their delivery, manage inventory, and improve customer commercial warehouse to address areas of the supply chain they are already helping to support, you improve your productivity and eliminate inefficiencies within your supply chain. experience. By allowing your

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