Logistics Outsourcing
There are many sides to running a successful business. Logistics can be defined as the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. Getting your products and services to their intended destination on time and efficiently is one of your top goals. One of the most effective ways to handle your company’s organizational strategies is through the use of logistics outsourcing.
Logistics outsourcing is the use of outside parties to perform activities that used to be handled by internal staff and was achieved using your own resources. To better manage your supply chain, why not incorporate logistics outsourcing into your company’s operations?
If you have goods and services that need to travel over rail lines, communicating with the rail line can often be frustrating and overwhelming. Not everyone in your company is equipped to handle such a task. When deliveries don’t show up on time or are crucially delayed, the blame comes right back to you.
Why not outsource your logistics? The benefits are many:
- Make use of a rail-served warehouse. There are train tracks and warehouses all over the place, but you want a rail line that hooks up directly to a warehouse where you can move all of your products swiftly. A warehouse located on such a rail line delivers your products easily and quickly to its intended destination.
- Never a 9-to-5 job. Railroad delivery doesn’t end at 5 pm. And deliveries run right through bad weather and holidays. You will know when your products are being shipped and when they are expected to arrive. There’s no paying employees overtime to wait on deliveries.
- Warehouses make delivery easy. Trains pull up right to the warehouse where loading and unloading take place. Your goods are organized and shipped out to your waiting customers.
- Deliveries are assured. When your products are loaded onto rail cars they don’t get transferred or unloaded due to delays or breakdowns as with truck shipping. Your product stays on the rail car until it reaches its destination and is then unloaded.
- You have more options with a rail-sided warehouse. Rail cars can hold three to five times more than an eighteen-wheeler. This adds up to more of your product shipping all at once instead of having to make additional trips to the same place. Your business won’t be charged extra, which means you’re saving money.
- Make use of transit monitoring. Using an electronic system to gauge where your shipments are is always easier than assigning your shipments to paper. Now you can see your shipment being tracked from start to finish. With convenient monitoring systems, the customer can track their shipment in real time.
- Good logistics takes experience and skills. To move your products efficiently and quickly, you need a logistics manager who is good at what they do. There are many skills needed to keep track of and succeed at the logistics game in today’s competitive world. From negotiating prices to communicating with customers, our team has the skills to make your business more successful.
A good warehouse is committed to providing you with exceptional quality service. It’s this and so much more that keeps us happy to serve you every day. We make sure shipments arrive on time, the costs are kept to a minimum, your customers are happy with their deliveries and most of all that your business remains the thriving enterprise you have worked so hard for it to become.
With over 40 years of expertise in public warehousing, freight transportation, and rail shipping, receiving and logistics outsourcing, Quality Warehouse and Distribution knows how to get the job done for you.
