Whether you’re a small, budding business or a well-established retail machine, you’ll need to keep your stock in a safe and secure space until it’s ready to be shipped.
If you’ve never utilised a warehouse or distribution service before, you may have some concerns about sending your stock to another site and putting your trust in a third-party provider to take care of it. After all, you’ve been taking such good care of your own stock until now, right?
But in reality, a lot of these fears are unfounded, especially if you’re working with an experienced and reliable warehousing provider like FDC Holdings.
We have over 40 years of experience offering efficient and affordable warehousing Preston that businesses here in the wider North West and UK can trust to store their beloved stock and make sure it reaches the correct destination in good time when a purchase is made. So get in touch with a member of the team if you’d like a chat about your requirements – it only takes a few seconds!
With this in mind, if you’re on the fence about using warehousing services to ease the strain on your business, here are a few things that could change your view.
Common fears about warehousing solutions (and why there’s no need to panic)
Handing over ownership of your stock
As a retail business, your stock is your bread and butter. Without it, there are no sales, and no sales means no survival.
Which is why retaining ownership and control over your stock until it’s sold is such an important aspect of your operation.
If you’ve never utilised warehousing before, you may feel that handing your stock over to another company may mean you’re losing an element of control and ownership over it – but nothing could be further from the truth.
Warehousing and fulfilment service providers – like FDC Holdings – act as the middleman between you, your stock and your customers, helping you house your stock and fulfil orders as necessary.
Until someone, somewhere hits the coveted ‘buy now’ button, your precious items are yours and yours alone. We’re simply here to help you out.
Besides, rent prices could be costing you a fortune to keep your stock where it currently is, while a warehousing solution may suit you far better, both price-wise and convenience-wise. So it’s definitely worth considering your options if you haven’t already.
Fulfilment concerns
Ensuring customers receive their goods on time is a surefire way of presenting yourself as a dependable company, leading to repeat business.
If you’ve been successfully fulfilling customer orders from your business premises for a while, putting your trust in someone else to handle this aspect of your business can be a huge worry – what if it doesn’t work? What if orders are shipped late? What if it ruins our business?
These are understandable fears – but not when you’re working with an experienced fulfilment expert like FDC Holdings.
Our smooth-running processes mean your items will be promptly picked, packed and shipped as quickly as possible, with our dedicated team taking care of every aspect of the process for you – as we have done for years.
If you’d like any more information about our fulfilment services, as well as our warehousing services, feel free to speak to a member of the team.
Security fears
As we’ve already mentioned, your stock is your bread and butter. So if something serious were to happen to any of your stock – let’s say, in the event of a break-in – it could cost you a lot of time and money.
Whenever a business elects a warehousing company to house its stock, it always pays to know its security is on-point and that stock will be protected at all times. In the same way the business will have protected it when stock was in its own care.
But when working with professional warehousing providers, not only will you benefit from an efficient service, but you’ll also benefit from heightened security standards for your products.
This means your stock will be kept firmly under lock and key at a secure site properly, before its shipping date, with wannabe thieves kept at bay as they should be.
Looking for warehousing Preston businesses can rely on? Choose FDC Holdings
If all of the above has eased your thinking on warehousing services, why not have a conversation with the team at FDC Holdings?
As a premier Lancashire warehousing and freight transport company, we’re ideally situated if your business is located nearby in the North West.
For more information on our warehousing services, fulfilment services, pallet deliveries and more, contact FDC Holdings now and a member of the team will respond to you ASAP.