Here is how multichannel companies use and benefit by using 3PL companies:
- Costing per order: When compared to internally managed operations, a third party logistics company can provide lower cost per order. While this might not be true for all business sizes but for small to mid-size business that don’t always have four season business, this can be extremely useful.
- Management Time: Hiring a 3PL company allows you to concentrate more time on your marketing and other core areas of your business.
- Low Capital Investment: Having the right 3PL partner beside you helps your company to reduce capital outlays for new fulfillment facilities, order management, and warehouse systems, telephone technologies, and in some cases website platforms. This allows you to use your capital to grow your business in other ways.
- International Distribution: Multichannel companies use 3PL partners to serve different countries such as Canada, Europe, and Asia. This also allows you to use 3PL companies to consolidate orders from domestic multichannel companies as well.
- Additional Services: Hiring a 3PL company allows you to avail few other 3PL services such as transportation, distribution, and cross-docking. Since 3PL companies are dedicated to handling all aspects of logistics, which you might find difficult to carry out if done all on your own.
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