| When you deal with the shipping and receiving of raw | | | | able to identify the high risk areas in addition to |
| materials to finished products, you likely use pallets | | | | where pallet breakdowns are likely to occur. |
| and other equipment like totes, cages and other | | | | In Depth Investigation |
| storage containers to ensure safety during | | | | Once an initial assessment of your shipping and |
| transportation. This shipping equipment is often leased | | | | receiving operations is completed, the pallet |
| from a pallet company because it reduces your cost | | | | management company would visit each location you |
| of purchasing them outright. However, the | | | | receive materials from and ship products to. Your |
| management of this equipment can be unwieldy and | | | | typical costs would be evaluated for the past year or |
| cumbersome because you are dealing with a number | | | | two as well as invoices investigated and gone over |
| of entities, each with their own timetable and way of | | | | line item by line item. |
| dealing with paperwork. | | | | Your actual product shipping would be compared to |
| Hiring a management company to oversee the hiring | | | | what has been invoiced to you by the hiring |
| of these pallets and other shipping equipment makes | | | | companies to look for discrepancies. Price shopping |
| sense. Plus, you end up saving money in the long run | | | | may also be conducted to ensure you have the most |
| because you do not have to deal with damaged or | | | | reasonably priced and reliable hiring pallet company |
| lost parts or the tracking of each and every piece of | | | | handling your shipping and receiving needs. |
| shipping equipment. However, do you know exactly | | | | Once control measures are implemented, the |
| what the management company does? It is | | | | management company would be able to more easily |
| important that you do so you know you are getting | | | | track your shipping and receiving activities. Often |
| your money's worth. | | | | times, other entities do not file paperwork in a timely |
| The Assessment Phase | | | | manner or inadvertently throw away or allow other |
| When you hire a company, the first thing they would | | | | companies to pick up your hired equipment. These |
| do is assess your current logistics operations such as | | | | are common breakdowns in the management system |
| where you hire your pallets from, how many you | | | | that ends up causing you more money. By following |
| order, what you ship, where you ship and how the | | | | the recommendations laid out by the outsourced |
| shipping equipment is retrieved once your product is | | | | pallet management company, you will end up saving |
| unloaded at the client destination. From this | | | | money. The proof will be in a healthier balance sheet |
| assessment, the management company would be | | | | in your logistics department. |