Start The Year On The Right Foot: 3 Ways To Avoid Pick and Pack Fulfillment Mistakes

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Pick and Pack Fulfillment

We’re well into the start of the new year…did you start it off on the right foot? Despite the chaos of 2020 and hurriedly figuring out new ways to adapt to the new normal, you might still be hoping to improve your pick and pack fulfillment. 2020 was a wake-up call to most companies’ fulfillment logistics and many of them have suffered.

So if you’re ready to get ahead, it’s time to stop making unnecessary pick and pack mistakes. Here’s how.

Grade your current pick and pack fulfillment

Handling, packing, and tracking products are processes that require great care. We encourage you to take inventory (no pun intended) of which business strategies are pushing you forward and which ones are holding you back.

We’ve designed a free needs assessment test just for you. Because how are you supposed to know where to start if you don’t know what needs improving? This will help you target those portions of your fulfillment chain that might be lacking and causing your business harm you weren’t aware of.

Really, only the best should be handling your products. Wouldn’t you agree? Who DOESN’T want their products to ship and arrive on their customers’ doorsteps on time, with the accurate order, and beautifully packaged? We think it’s only fair to your customers.

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Hire a qualified partner

Look around and check out the employees you’ve hired and the companies you’ve outsourced to and/or partnered with. It’s likely that they’re handling one or more parts of your fulfillment operation, that you’ve trusted them to take care of your essential logistics. But there’s also a likely chance that they continue to drop the ball, that they aren’t fulfilling your needs as a business.

Are customers unsatisfied? Do returns continue to flood in? Do order consistently arrive late, damaged, or just plain wrong? In that case, it’s time to find someone new.

It’s important to also realize that the people working for and with your business have an impact on its growth, advancement, and success. Are they working towards turning your business into something better than it was today?

They should be. But most aren’t.

A new pair of eyes (and hands) can give you a fresh look on business tactics and improvements that maybe you’ve never thought of.

Ensure you’ve got an advanced warehouse

You can’t delivery high quality excellence without the tools, resources, and support to do so. When it comes to pick and pack fulfillment, having a top-notch warehouse will be your saving grace. Therefore, ensure you can check the boxes to most of the qualities below:

• Sophisticated facilities. Your warehouse space should safely store a variety of products; ideally it is FDA Food Grade certified. That means you’re pros at handling health and beauty products. You need a warehouse partner that recognizes that your products are valuable –whether perishable or not – and cater to the specific and unique needs of each order. Warehousing inventory is an investment and your partner should be there to ensure it remains secure and up to date.

• Ensure that your back-end fulfillment facilities are protected by state-of-the art, monitored access and surveillance systems. You’re housing expensive and important products, and you shouldn’t take any risks when it comes to security.
• Your ordering and warehouse management system should allow tracking by lot number, expiration date, and other crucial details.

Interested in learning more about how to perfect your pick and pack skills? Give us a call, we’d love to chat.