Feeling the pressure to meet customer demands, drive new ecommerce business, and meet revenue goals are just a few of the things we hear from third-party logistics (3PL) companies's owners and operators. These top priorities have many logistics professionals looking for ways to improve their warehouse operations and automate workflows to help reduce costs, meet shipping demands, and increase throughput. In order to stand out in today’s competitive logistics world, 3PLs must strive to become an indispensable partners that their customers love by offering the services they need to meet core deliverables and service level agreements (SLAs).
For third-party logistics businesses looking to succeed, they need to be committed to their customer's satisfaction and success by automating warehouse workflows with best practices designed to help warehouses easily manage inventory and operate more efficiently.
Here are five ways 3PL warehouses can help their customers fall in love with their business and reduce turnover.
Warehouses should help customers understand the best practices and processes that will work well for both parties. Offering advice on what technologies to use, what processes to implement, or workflows to help save your 3PL customers money will ensure that you are meeting their expectations to grow their business—and yours. These should include:
Customers love when integrations are fast, simple, and airtight. But most of all, they love it when they are hassle-free in every sense of the word. One of your 3PL’s primary jobs is to make your customers’ jobs easier.
Your 3PL will delight your customers if you can easily connect every aspect of your customers’ inventory and fulfillment operations to their:
Working with a WMS partner, like Extensiv, is like having an extension of your team. Especially when you have access to a variety of services and trusted partners to help you every step of the way.
Warehouses that become their customers’ go-to source for all of this data will be seen as nothing less than heroes. This can be accomplished by providing 100% accurate information regarding:
Your customers’ brand image is the most valuable asset they own. Working with a 3PL business that is as committed to that image–and their shoppers-as they are will ensure loyalty and growth opportunities.
Your 3PL can do so by ensuring that:
Being such a partner will undoubtedly earn their customers’ respect – and long-term business. Your 3PL can accomplish this by:
In short, your customers want a 3PL who is easy to work with, utterly reliable, and an expert in the business of fulfillment. Such 3PLs will quickly become an irreplaceable part of their customers’ daily operations and future success.
To learn more about how Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager can help your 3PL become a warehouse your customers will love, request a demo today.