Every distribution channel faces a broad spectrum of issues that can occur without warning and disrupt the efficacy of your supply chain. That makes the role of the Warehouse Manager and/or logistics overseer especially challenging as unplanned events require quick thinking, back up plans and continuous support from all members of their team. Think back to the last time your supply chain was disrupted and what was targeted as the likely cause. All too often, however, whenever your distribution channel takes a hit, your unloading services are expected to roll with it and take up the slack in any way possible to remain on or close to your scheduled delivery time. That is when it is important to have a team dispatched immediately from Express Freight Handlers.
When your supply chain experiences issues that create delays, you know that your overhead can incur a wide range of expenses. That includes higher transport costs due to delays or the need for rerouting expedited shipping fees, more inventory holding costs due to stockpiling, penalty fees of late deliveries, potential, especially with perishables, for damages/asset losses, and naturally, lost profit due to missed sales as a result of stock shortages. Of these, the issues that create the biggest financial losses are transportation, warehousing, and freight expenditures.
So, how can outsourced professional lumpers assist you to get your channel back on track and assist to avoid future supply chain disruptions? With consumers’ heightened expectations that they will receive their orders overnight or in one or two days, overrules implementing order delays. The best way to establish and to maintain a resilient distribution channel is to team with a dependable, well-established, reliable, highly experienced firm, Express Freight Handlers to provide your trailer and container unloading services. Another fact to consider that almost 50% of middle market companies increased their inventory accumulation last year. That means, of course, that more shipments must be unloaded and stored than ever before. Here’s another industry statistic: over 60% of your competitors have stated they intend to up their game to meet these new service demands as soon as possible.
Your goal, understandably, is to build a team that ensures that your distro channel remains resilient and as fully functional as possible no matter what issues arise. At Express Freight Handlers, we know that to keep your costs down and your revenues up, every link in your supply chain must be as systematic and well-run as possible. Our teams are supervised to assist you as needed to handle your inbound freight in the most efficient ways possible. For over a decade, we have provided companies nationwide with freight unloading services. We have everything you need to reduce distro channel snags and to increase profitability by enhancing your supply chain workflow process. Unloading, sorting, and segregating your inbound freight is our core competency.
Moreover, it is our goal on each and every job to provide professional inbound freight unloading services that assist you to meet your tightest deadlines while we exceed your expectations. Learn more by contacting our team today!
