5 Things to Look When You Choosing Imaginative E-Fulfilment Services - By: Niamh Allan

There are a wide range of options to look at when choosing your e-fulfilment services. In this article we explore 5 creative e- fulfilment services that are on offer to any business.

1) E- Fulfilment services are so much more now than just you’re simple pick, pack and dispatch from business to consumer or business to business. There are numerous internet fulfilment services to choose from and just a quick search on the web will bring you to any number of businesses that can lay claim to providing this service however you can distinguish the depth of these services by looking what creative services they offer.

2) Internet fulfilment services/ Portal services. This provides direct access for you as the customer to monitor every aspect of your fulfilment services partner activity through the internet or a web portal. Store it all for instance has a web portal that is accessed through a ‘log in’ tab on their site. Once you have entered you can monitor everything from goods in to goods out, historic sales, stock level and so. This is a very useful tool and enables you to keep a firm grasp on your stock movement.

3) Gift wrapping is available at some fulfilment providers. These are key to customers who don’t want to lose the premium image that they have acquired and sustained whilst picking and packing themselves. There is no reason why when a business has moved to a 3rd party e –fulfilment provider that they should not be able to sustain a complicated pack. There is of course a premium attached to this but much of the time this will probably work out as a similar percentage to a not complicated pick on a low value item if your item is of a higher value.

4) Kits and Packs. These are an important thing to look out for when looking at your e-fulfilment services provider. Kits and packs can be coasted differently to a normal pick and pack. If one of your products is a box containing three pre-ordained items then these can be placed nearer to each other within the warehouse for easy picking to make a ‘kit’ or can be pre made in to ‘packs’ so that they can be picked from the shelf as one item instead of three. When searching through the internet fulfilment services these may not always be clearly out lined so it is always best to contact the provider.

5) Always remember when looking through internet fulfilment services that it is always better to get in contact and ask for a quote, get a full range of services and speak to a person in power. It is our experience that the companies with the most creative fulfilment services are the ones that are flexible and Cator for all your needs. It may cost you a little more but it is the relationship that you build that will allow you to really expand your business.

About the Author

Niamh Allan has been working in the capacity of chief editor for Store It All for ten years now. With an aggregate experience of almost 15 years in logistics sector, she has attained the reputation of an outstanding logistics professional ( storage solutions , fulfilment services, e-fulfilment services) .

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