Imagine having a leading-edge fulfillment department with experienced employees, state-of-the-art order management software, and endless warehouse space. Just as you are an expert in developing and selling your products, third party logistics companies specialize in inventory management, packaging, and shipping. It’s understandable that your product is precious to you, as it is the meat of your business, and leaving it in the hands of third-party fulfillment can be worrisome, but don’t let that fear prevent you from utilizing the most efficient processes and saving unnecessary costs.

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Allow You to Stay Focused on Growth

It’s likely you didn’t start your E-commerce business because you truly enjoy packing boxes. Even if you happen to be skilled when it comes to packaging, the other skills you possess are what makes your business exceptional. One of the biggest benefits of outsourcing order fulfillment is that you are free to focus on core business activities to expand your business, such as strategic planning, sales and marketing, product selection, and customer relations.

As your online store sales grow in volume, your time grows scarce and it becomes inefficient to spend countless hours on packaging and shipping orders. Working with an outsourced fulfillment provider will help free up time so you can work to grow your business through what you are good at.

Scale You Space with Less Stress Using eFulfillment Services

Consider how many steps there are between receiving an order and delivering it to your customer’s door, and you’ll quickly come to the realization that fulfilling orders yourself is rarely a cakewalk. Shipping can become stressful especially when selling your products via multiple paths. By scaling your order fulfillment to match your growth, you’ll have the confidence you need to grow your business as quickly as you with without fear of negatively impacting your customers’ experiences. 

As your business grows, you won’t have to worry about finding additional warehouse space, hiring and training new employees, and the challenges of managing additional inventory as your order volumes increase. Your fulfillment partner should have established and readily available space to support your requirements.

Decrease Unnecessary Costs with E-commerce Order Fulfillment

Savings are possible at every stage of the packaging and distribution process. Total cost optimization practices enable competent packagers to trim materials costs and maximize distribution dollars, saving fuel and coordinating effective transportation networks. Being experts in product distribution, your fulfillment partner can provide you recommendations for the lowest cost shipping options. Fulfillment companies typically ship thousands of orders a day and can, therefore, negotiate cheaper rates with shipping companies. This negotiated savings can then materially pass to you and your customers.

Other than taking up valuable time and the stress of maintaining positive customer experiences, with growth comes additional costs. Locked-in leases become a moot point with the ability to pay monthly fees to a fulfillment company for the amount of space you occupy and the service provided. It can be challenging to predict days when orders are high, keeping your fulfillment personnel busy, or days when they could be idle. By outsourcing, you will eliminate the expense of that fluctuation and focus on hiring staff with the talents and business savvy necessary to contribute to your business, not pack your boxes.

E-Commerce Fulfillment Helps Increase Efficiency

It goes without saying that a fulfillment company lets you store, organize, and ship your orders more efficiently. They’ll do all the work of receiving, storing, and managing your products, and they’ll provide easy access for tracking your current stock levels. More importantly, a fulfillment service eliminates the risk of shipping errors. Automated processes, sophisticated inventory control systems, streamlined pick and pack methods, optimized receiving and return procedures, and state-of-the-art technology help ensure efficient and accurate order processing.

Leverage Knowledge and Technology

Outsourcing your fulfillment will allow you to benefit from the latest and greatest technology. Gone is the time when an e-commerce business had to fax or phone an order to their fulfillment company. Technology is constantly changing and for most companies, a substantial portion of the annual budget is devoted to maintaining and upgrading technology and warehouse equipment. These days, the e-commerce firm’s shopping cart or accounting system automatically integrates to the order management system of the fulfillment company. An e-commerce firm can download electronic files from its shopping cart and sends those files to the fulfillment house electronically. By partnering with a 3PL, you can pass responsibility of upgrading technology on to your provider, which is more cost effective.

Eliminate Investment in Software and Equipment

For many e-commerce businesses, third-party fulfillment offers benefits that these companies could not afford themselves, including the ability to virtually eliminate upfront investment in software, equipment, facilities and personnel. e-commerce companies can spend thousands of dollars on software, equipment, and automation where many third-party fulfillment companies have invested millions of dollars in those functions and can operate much more efficiently than an e-commerce business could by itself.

Partnering with Victory Packaging will offer a turnkey solution that lets you focus on your core competencies of marketing and sales, while we seamlessly handle all fulfillment of packaging services such as order processing, inventory management, product packaging and other distribution requirements. Contact us today to take the stress out of your fulfillment processes.