E-Commerce

E-Commerce: begins and ends with your consumer products fulfillment warehouse. For many new e-commerce businesses, selecting a fulfillment warehouse partner to ship their consumer products is the last thing on their mind.  However, it is arguably on of the first things that should be considered.  Not only is this critical for safeguarding your product, enhancing customer service, and timely and accurate shipping of your order; your consumer products fulfillment warehouse can also provide an innovative e-commerce shopping cart web store.

There are many benefits to your fulfillment warehouse partner managing your e-commerce store.  First, they will ensure that the products listed on your store always match those in the warehouse management system (WMS).  Keeping the product attributes, pricing, availability, etc. in sync is crucial for a positive customer experience.  In addition, the fulfillment partner’s e-commerce store will already be completely integrated with their order management system (OMS) and their WMS – thus cutting down on moving parts and required integration – which reduces the potential for error as well as minimizing start-up costs.  Lastly, this consolidated ownership also removes the potential for finger pointing – the consumer products fulfillment warehouse is accountable for the process from start to finish.

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in consumer products fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

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Why use a 3PL Fulfillment company?

A fulfillment warehouse partner, also known as a Third Party Logistics (3PL) company, can be used to strategically grow your company without the massive capital expenditure.  By taking over much of the unpredictable operational requirement and investment, it can allow you to focus on what you do best – which is running your business.

Using a 3PL fulfillment company essentially means that you outsource the storage of your product (warehousing) as well as the fulfillment, or shipping of your product to the end consumer (fulfillment).  This can be a lifesaver during a rapid growth period, or even in a period of stability – either way it allows you to avoid the increased facility expense, infrastructure and equipment purchases (such as pallet racking, conveyor lines, and picking equipment), and of course save an enormous amount on labor.

Choosing the right 3PL fulfillment partner can bring a wealth of experience from a myriad of industries, as well as the ability to leverage facility, labor, and equipment.  You gain from their dedication to constantly refine and optimize the process, as well as continual quality improvement – both very critical in fulfillment and warehouse operations.  This can enable you to maintain a leading edge fulfillment operation without the trial and error.

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in 3PL Fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

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What is the difference between B2B and B2C fulfillment?

A fulfillment warehouse company can be a strategic partner that enables your company to expand rapidly, as well as allowing you to focus on what you do best.  While a fulfillment partner can provide a long list of helpful services, two primary services generally provided are B2C Fulfillment Services, and B2B Fulfillment Services.  You may have heard these two terms many times before: B2C and B2B; but have you ever wondered what the difference was?

B2C stands for “business to consumer”.  This essentially covers where a business (such as an e-commerce online store) is shipping product to an end customer or consumer.  A classic example is where an individual purchases something on a web store, and then the company’s warehouse ships that product to the individual’s home or office.  This is a business to consumer, or “B2C” fulfillment transaction.

As you might have guessed, B2B stands for “business to business”.  This is where a business ships product directly to another business – generally in higher quantities, or in bulk.  An example of this would be where a company is supplying product to another company for resale – for example, shipping several pallets of a company’s product to a big box retailer such as Target or Walmart.  This is a business to business, or “B2B” fulfillment transaction.

There are very significant differences between a B2C and a B2B transaction.  B2C fulfillment typically involves a higher number of individual orders, each with smaller quantities within the order.  B2B fulfillment generally involves a smaller number of orders, but each order is much larger.  Both have their nuances and critical success factor.  B2C orders are all about speed, accuracy, and customer service.  B2B orders can involve speed, but are heavily weighted towards accuracy – typically being required to follow a very detailed and exacting “routing guide” provided by the retailer.  Failure to follow these specifications can result in very large penalties, or “charge backs” – and that ruins everyone’s day!

Vision Consumer Products Fulfillment has decades of experience and industry expertise in both B2C and B2B Fulfillment services.  No matter who your customer is, we treat your customer as our own.  We know what makes a raving fan out of an individual customer, as well as what makes a business partner trust you with their business.  Call or email us to learn how.  We’re certain we’ll be the best fulfillment warehouse partner you have ever had!

http://visioncpf.com
CPFSales@VisionMediamgmt.com

Three Reasons to use Intelligent Order Sequencing

Surviving in business is tough, which is why every company needs to find a way of making sure that it is has an edge over its competitors. This means as well as providing a high quality services, businesses must also find ways to optimize service and efficiency, and this is where intelligent Order Sequencing can be a valuable asset.

Sometimes, every business needs a little bit of help to ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible, and that orders can be dispatched in the most straight forward way possible; this is where using an Intelligent Order Sequencing can help.

Detailed below are three ways that Intelligent Order Sequencing can enable your business to move to the next level.

Managing Mass Orders

Managing mass orders can be a difficult process, especially if a company has limited resources and a tight deadline to meet. However, an intelligent Order Sequencing system can allow a business to cope with the demands of mass orders while enabling a business to comply with best practice at all times.

Handling Volume

Every business will have peaks and troughs in orders and the busy times are a real test for many companies. In order for a company to be a success, it must be able to meet the high demands on its business in a cost effective, fast manner and it must be able to cope with high volume orders if the company is to grow.

Intelligent Order Sequencing allows this and enables every business – large or small – to cope with the demands of modern day business.

Prioritizing Orders

Some orders will need to be dispatched quicker than others. Some customers will have selected a special delivery service for an item that they need in a hurry, while other orders won’t have the same urgency.

By using an Intelligent Order Sequencing system, this process of prioritizing orders is automated, meaning that there is no need to manually process every order, which is time consuming and will ultimately affect productivity and profits.

To learn more about our fulfillment warehouse, B2B fulfillment, B2C fulfillment, and foreign trade zone services, visit our website.

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