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Monday, October 1, 2012

The ways Fulfillment Companies can save ecommerce companies money


The ways Fulfillment Companies can save ecommerce companies money


It’s really easy to spend big bucks when you are trying to grow your company, but it’s not always easy to make big bucks. One way that fulfillment companies can save you money is by the reduction of errors. Since they specialize in a bit smaller type of service industry, they can focus their efforts on efficiency in packing, processing, and delivering. If you have hundreds of other business items to attend to, it is likely that you or a member of your staff could easily misread an item number or address. So, if the wrong product gets shipped to a consumer, you have just incurred a big expense. You have to pay once to ship the product there, pay for them to ship it back, and then pay again to get the correct product shipped there safely. Not to mention, you probably have a very unhappy customer by the time the whole thing is through. Fulfillment companies are not perfect by any means, but they do have far less error when it comes to shipping good efficiently and timely.

Another way fulfillment companies are able to save you money is through their many warehousing strategies. You probably don’t have enough room to support your growing company in a small office or garage, so you need a place to store your goods. Fulfillment companies are housed in large buildings and warehouses so that they can store your products from the same place they ship them from. This saves you from having to rent out a storage unit. Along with warehousing, fulfillment companies can save you money because they get great deals on boxes, tape, envelopes...even those annoying little packing peanuts! They ship so much that larger companies that sell these products give them great deals. This is also the case with the actual shipping services such as UPS or Fedex.

In the end, fulfillment companies increase customer satisfaction and that is the biggest profit of all.

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