Keep Your Supply Chain Strong With Express Delivery

After the hard work of setting up, and then establishing a niche in the market which

people respond to favourably, the next tough time for any business comes when it needs to expand.

Inevitably, this means giving careful consideration to how it is going to cater for customers who may well be further away from where the business is based, but cant find anywhere more local to them which meets their needs and hear about it through recommendations from family or friends.

So without the expense of investing heavily in a dedicated delivery fleet, and drivers, the job of meeting this demand may well fall on a courier company. Of course, this is ideal when a business does not generate the volume of delivery traffic to warrant spending such large sums. Courier and express delivery companies often have long established depots out of which they run large numbers of vans and drivers, and if one of these happens to be local to the business, it can eliminate the need for the extra investment already mentioned.

The second major hurdle to be overcome when contemplating how to handle a greater volume of parcel delivery requests is in keeping track of all consignments. Fortunately, when you use a courier company such as Parcelforce or DHL today, they usually have vehicles equipped with technology which allows a parcel to be tracked as it undertakes the journey to its recipient. You can get an update of its location by logging on to the companys website, and inputting a parcel reference number great for keeping a valued customer up-to-date with the whereabouts of their next delivery.

In order to keep truly on top of a large quantity of deliveries, its a good idea to request email notification of when each individual one has reached its destination. The courier company driver will take a signature to confirm that a parcel has been received at its destination, and a copy of this can be scanned and emailed to the recipient, wherever they happen to be.

Its no longer the case that a growing business needs to spend a disproportionate amount of time chasing up its outward deliveries, because the process is now so much easier than it used to be. So instead, it can go ahead and meet the extra demand without the bosses and workers losing any sleep over whether their delivery company will be able to keep all the new customers happy.

by: Jamie Francis

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