What's Really Important in Contract Warehousing?
04/15/2015 16:47
Contract warehouses can be like the drawer in your kitchen with all the crap in it: junk all over…and some third-party warehouses look just like that once you get inside. Other warehouses look like the perfectly organized workshop of Tim “tool Time” Allen @ofctimallen with everything in the exact prescribed place, carefully laid out to optimize the flow and efficiency.
You never know what it’s going to look like until you visit a warehouse…and that especially goes for checking out the outside of the building by going to Google maps or any of the other trillion satellite websites zooming in to our lives from miles above. In the world of contract warehousing, very often the exterior of a building is no indication of what’s inside.
What matters most is the dependability of the warehouse operator staff, the experience they have with your company’s specific commodity and inventory, and that they can handle the task as efficiently and inexpensively as possible.
There are plenty of folks out there with brand new Craftsman chest with all the right tools and zero idea how to use them. Then there are the guys with rusty toolboxes with the same Snap-on wrenches they’ve used for 25 years…which one do you want working on your equipment?
FW Warehousing has facilities located in the right areas with the best WMS computer systems, experienced staff, and equipment available in the Midwest. Their buildings aren’t all brand new and they’re not in the high-rent district, but who cares? When you checkout the inside, they are professionally laid out by an on-staff industrial engineer to most efficiently layout the space in a manner specific to their individual customer’s needs. And they get your precious cargo to your customers fast and accurately. What more could you ask?