Warehousing and the Importance of Location

A warehouse and transportation company should do more than carry and hold your products; it should aid you in reaching your target consumers quickly, and at a lower cost. The site of your warehousing center is essential to your business’s long-term success, but selecting the best services in the prime location to meet your customers needs is not necessarily easy.

The Winning Combination

You’ll want to find the best combination of superior services and optimal location with a scalable operation to fit your needs. If you choose one over the other you’ll sacrifice time, money, and efficiency.

If you choose location over service quality, you put the safety and security of your products at risk at all stages of transportation and storage. You also risk your ability to fulfill your customers needs and requirements.

If you choose service over location, you may run into problems with transportation and labor costs, as well as transportation timeliness. Warehousing near your customers minimizes logistical costs that can rise unexpectedly. A convenient location can lower transportation costs and minimize time in transit.

It is also helpful if your chosen warehouse is within a reasonable distance to major transit systems, such as railways and shipping ports. This cuts time and costs associated with larger shipments sent across the country, or internationally. Local available labor is also a factor to consider. Some warehousing sites simply do not have the enough local employees to serve you, or may have a high turnover rate. This turnover can dramatically affect service quality.

If you are in need transportation and warehousing services in the West Michigan area, Classic Transportation and Warehousing provides superior service and offers multiple locations where you will find the best of the best in both of these areas to fit your needs. Our logistics staff of professionals are here to help you and we hope you will find our service is your solution. Please contact us to talk about how we can help you succeed in finding that winning combination.