TTS - The Importance of Stock Planning for Peak Seasons

For any e-commerce company, regardless of size or industry, strategic inventory management is critical for efficiency, sustained growth as well as your reputation! TTS can work with you to ensure both effective stock management and that you’re in great shape to deal with the seasonal challenges that arise throughout the year.

We Understand E-commerce Seasonality

Order seasonality presents predictable patterns in the demand for products or services throughout the year. At TTS, we work closely with you – gaining an understanding of these cycles and how they affect demand for your products. TTS’s experienced Business Development Team will work with you to prepare accordingly – to put in place effective inventory and logistics strategies that will deal effectively with fluctuations in demand for your products – moving forwards.

It's All in the Planning

At TTS we understand that advance inventory planning is vital in order to meet the challenges of peak seasons. Ideally, planning should begin at least six months before any peak seasons to allow for a thorough audit of your business assets.

A close look at stock levels and logistics ensures that we coordinate fully with suppliers to head off any possible supply issues. By working several months early, you can also ensure that your marketing strategy and essential marketing tools are in place and fit for purpose. For example, it is vital that your website is in ‘tip-top’ health, with plenty of visual appeal and necessary optimisation. It also needs to be user friendly with close attention given to its ease of use, payment methods and security. This is also something that TTS can assist with.

Flexible Logistics – The Key to Meeting Challenges

Flexibility in logistics is a critical factor for success in e-commerce. Having a logistics partner with systems and processes capable of adapting quickly to changes in demand and unforeseen events - that often arise during peak seasons is the key to retaining not only healthy levels of business and profitability, but also, your levels of customer loyalty and reputation.

With so many integrated logistics providers, this level of flexibility just isn’t possible because of the operational constraints brought about by the large parent companies that own them. However, TTS is completely independent and prides itself on evels of flexibility that are completely in tune with the changing requirements and demands of its clients.

TTS - The Perfect Integrated Logistics Partner

Technology is vital to sustaining effective e-commerce operations. Our state-of-the-art WMS can, via its API, deal with all your customers orders - regardless of volume and whether they come direct from your own website or via any third-party e-commerce channels. Our WMS system also provides you with clear 24-7 visibility of stock and order levels.

Of course technology is nothing without a highly skilled workforce behind it and at TTS - from management and business development through to warehousing, fulfilment, and transport, has some of the most experienced staff in the industry.  

Presently, TTS is one of a very small minority of integrated logistics companies in the world to have a double ‘A’ star BRCGS rating – and whilst that might be more attuned to clients within the food related industries, it does act as a clear indicator, to any potential client, as to TTS’s levels of efficiency and quality of service.

To arrange a FREE initial consultation: ian@telfordtransport.co.uk