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Chances are, if your business deals with complicated products that need to be assembled (gift baskets or giveaway bags for example), you could profit from outsourcing your assembly and shipping work through fulfillment assembly warehouses.

A number of organizations have common sets of products that ordinarily get lumped together in orders. For example, your business might offer gift baskets that can contain any of 50 items that need to be assembled before an order can be shipped. You may also offer giveaway products, for instance a bag containing small sample products, to tempt customers to buy your products. Running your own assembly warehouse can be very expensive. Contracting a fulfillment warehouse to assemble such orders (sometimes called “kitting”), is a good way to cut your expenses significantly.

Fulfillment Assembly Warehouses Are experts in Assembly Work

Fulfillment assembly warehouses specialize in storing, packing, picking and shipping merchandise. Using a fulfillment assembly warehouse won’t just help you save storage space in your own warehouse, or even the need to have your own warehouse, it also saves you money and time. Outsourcing your kit packaging will save your personnel for more important things, leaving them with more time to concentrate on those jobs that can’t be done by others. If you use a fulfillment center with experience in fulfillment assembly you ensure that your kits are suitably assembled by a team of people who have experience in doing the job set before them.

In the modern business world, it does not make good business sense to pay full time workers to do jobs which could easily be outsourced. This is especially true where you may not have forty hours of work each week for those workers. With regards to work like assembling, packing and shipping products, it makes perfect sense to contract the work out to an expert in the feild.

Warehouse Kitting on an As-Needed Basis

One additional advantage of using a fulfillment assembly warehouse is that you can have numerous kits assembled and ready for immediate shipment without losing any time from your own staff. If you have a certain set of products you anticipate moving as a set in large quantities, fulfillment warehouses can prepackage these items and get make sure that they are ready to be shipped, thus cutting down time between when order placement and fulfillment. Customers are not known for their patience, and the faster you are able to supply the goods once they are ordered, the happier they will be. Happy customers are much more likely to buy from you again.

If you manage a mail order company that deals in more than one product, or even if you deal in one specific product that tends to be ordered in quantity, having your assembly work done through a fulfillment assembly warehouse is probably a good option to increase your efficiency and readiness to deliver your product as soon as the order is received. Don’t let your competitors beat you to embracing this new advancement in the warehousing and storage process. Each minute you wait is another opportunity for your competitors to gain an advantage on you. Take steps today in order to start to streamline your kitting procedure by contracting a fulfillment center.

Jeff Ehrlich is the President of FulfillmentPlusNY which operates pick pack and ship operations for a diverse group of clients globally.Contact Jeff for pick, pack and ship services.