How Can TTS’s Fulfilment Services Help My E-Commerce Business?
Sure, making sales is the exciting part. But what happens after the order is placed? Somehow your products need to end up in customers’ hands – and this is where TTS (Telford Transport Solutions) can help.
So, what is e-commerce fulfilment? It is the entire process of picking, packing, and shipping products to customers. It includes maintaining an inventory (a complete list of stock), locating products within storage, packaging products, labelling parcels / packages and managing the logistics of delivery.
A fulfilment service, such as that offered by TTS, provides you with storage within one of its many warehouse facilities, where it’s team of highly trained operatives picks, packs and ships your orders for you.
The number of products, that you have within your inventory, are called SKU’s (Stock Keeping Units) featuring scannable, identifying codes. SKU’s will help you keep track of your inventory and stocking levels.
Online orders, coming into TTS, will identify the number of SKU’s applicable for each order.
TTS and its warehousing, 3PL and fulfilment facilities are not only ideal for businesses that have outgrown their own warehousing and fulfilment capabilities, but also, for start-up businesses too. The reason being that businesses can grow quickly and efficiently without the excessive investment levels required for warehousing, vehicle fleet and staff.
The flexible nature of TTS’s service means that your business can respond quickly and in a cost-effective way to seasonal demand and promotions. Furthermore, we can offer you the levels of fulfilment that best suit not only your product, but also, how it’s received.
We can collect product, with our fleet of curtain-side artics and vans; we can collect shipping containers from all major UK ports; we can assemble and even rectify products if need arises.
This same level of flexibility applies to packaging. We can work with supplied packaging or design and produce bespoke, branded packaging on your behalf.
Our 3PL fleet of vans can be utilised for B2B and B2C UK deliveries or we can work with almost any major delivery brand to offer your customers a choice based on ‘cost vs speed.’
A major factor, for all e-commerce brands, is returns. Of course, this is something that TTS can assist with as part of its all-encompassing e-commerce fulfilment service. By having the proper systems in place, we can help you to maintain customer loyalty as well as boost your profits by repurposing returned stock.
To find out more, speak to TTS: ian@telfordtransport.co.uk