Got an order you need to move? How quickly does it take to get that order out the door? Hours? Days? Worse? The reality is that buyers expect delivery almost as soon as they push the order button. While you can’t deliver as quickly as the local pizza chain, you’re well aware that the market wants you to. So what do you do?
Warehouse fulfillment distribution solutions are a combination of hardware and software that allows you to automate almost the entire fulfillment process. If you’ve ever wondered how you’re going to scale, well, this is how. When working correctly, a warehouse fulfillment distribution system will take an order, direct a robot to where in the warehouse the good is stored, and then while the robot is picking up the good the system is printing the label and prepping the shipping box.
From start to finish, an effective warehouse fulfillment distribution system should be able to process an order to get it out the door in a matter of a few minutes, ideally less than hour. Being able to fulfill orders that quickly gives you an advantage over any competitor that cannot say the same.
So if you’re still doing this by hand, remember that the world’s leading companies, and all the benchmark companies in logistics, utilize some sort of warehouse fulfillment distribution system, because that is the best way to ensure that orders to sent out as quickly and accurately as possible.
