Do you feel like your company is not getting inventory or merchandise out the door and into the mail quickly enough? If you feel like your company is either leaving money on the tables or paying too much in product handling expenses, it might be time to consider changing things up. Here are a few reasons why you might want to hire a firm that offers product handling services to help you regain full control over your post-sale process.
Never Run Out of Handling Materials Again
There's a lot that goes into the product handling and shipping process. You will need certain items like bubble wrap, shipping labels, and much more before your sold inventory will be ready to go the post office or shipment center. By outsourcing all or part of your product handling process, you'll never have to worry about not having the right handling materials available again. Your clients or customers will get what they ordered in a timely fashion with no delays that could end up costing your company money.
Streamline or Reduce Your Handling Costs
Yes, it's true that hiring an outside party to take over your product handling will cost you money. But when you look at how much money and time you are currently putting into the process yourself, you may find that streamlining everything to an outside party will reduce costs in the long run by allowing your company to focus on other things.
Reduce Your Labor Force
Another way you could reduce costs is by completely eliminating your current internal handling staff. No business owner wants to lay off employees of course, but if you are like most companies, you'll want to increase your profits year after year. If you are currently paying not just a salary but health care benefits and a retirement plan match to an entire department of product handling associates, it might be to your long-term benefit to cut those workers out and outsource everything to a 3rd party.
When you contract with a product handling firm, you only have to pay for what they actually handle. In other words, you won't have employees standing around on salary and collecting benefits even when business is slow.
Contact a professional product handling firm today for more information. Outsourcing your entire product handling operating to a third party could help you streamline your business and cut costs in the long run.
