Pick Pack And Ship: Three Magic Words In Mail Order

If you want your mail order business to be successful you should be familiar with the three magic words of mail order business: pick pack, and ship. The faster and more accurately a business can accomplish these things, the more satisfied customers will be, and the more successful it will be. As the demand for your products increases and your business grows, however, it can become harder and harder to keep up with shipping demands. This leaves you with the option of hiring dedicated personnel for shipping (which means footing the labor costs, often even when the extra staff are not needed) or dividing the attention of staff who have other tasks to complete.

Fortunately, there is a better way. By contracting a fulfillment warehouse, you do more than simply eliminate unnecessary building and labor expenses. You hire a team of specialists who understand shipping and handling inside out. Why waste precious time having someone multitask when you can have people specifically trained to efficiently and accurately pick pack and ship your goods whenever you need them? A fulfillment warehouse will give you the best of both worlds. Using a fulfillment warehouse won't just eliminate your storage and warehousing costs, but the entire packing and delivery process is taken care of by a team of specialists.

Fulfillment warehouses streamline the shipping procedure. This adds up to savings for them, which in turn adds up to savings for you. Not only do fulfillment warehouses avoid a lot of down time for workers by serving several companies' shipping needs, but they also train their employees to concentrate on certain responsibilities in the shipping process. Much as Henry Ford's automated assembly line streamlined the process of making automobiles and brought down the manufacturing costs so that average man on the street could afford to buy cars, the fulfillment center, by assigning employees to specific tasks such as pick &pack, makes the whole process more efficient, allowing the businesses they work for to save money.

The workforce in a fulfillment warehouse break up into two distinct groups; pick & pack. Pickers are trained specifically to look at your order manifests, find the appropriate items, pull the items required, and prepare them to be shipped. The picker will then hand the order over to another specialized member of staff, who will continue the shipping process from there. He or she then sets about finding the next order.

Packers check that all items on the list have been correctly picked, giving you an extra pair of eyes to make sure that nothing has been missed out (potentially saving you a lot of stress). After verifying that all the items are present and correct, the packer completes the packaging process, which usually includes attaching a packing slip. Last of all, the packer labels the package with the customer's address and any special information concerning how the package ought to be shipped. Skilled packers will know when packages should be labeled 'fragile' or 'handle with care', and label a package accordingly.

Fulfillment centers then ship the item to its final destination. This is usually done through a major courier service, UPS or FedEx for example. Another benefit of doing your shipping through a fulfillment center is that they ship items in bulk and this is much less expensive.

Relieve yourself of your shipping and handling headaches and costs. Let a fulfillment warehouse pick pack and ship: the three magic words in mail order.

By: Jeff Ehrlich

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Jeff Ehrlich is the head of FulfillmentPlusNY which operates fulfillment services for a whole host of customers globally.Contact Jeff for order processing services.