subject: Industrial real estate Keeping an Inventory of Your Warehouse Supplies [print this page] Industrial real estate Keeping an Inventory of Your Warehouse Supplies
If you are keeping inventory and ordering your warehouse supplies the old way, it may be time to update the way you handle your ordering process. Instead of lumping all of your business inventory together and making purchases from a number of suppliers, keep a separate inventory list of supplies specifically for your warehousing needs. This will drastically cut down the time, effort and expense involved in ordering warehousing supplies.In the past, warehouse supplies came from a variety of different sources. One company sold you your office chairs and other office accessories, like chair mats and time clocks. Another company sold you their boxes, packing slips, tapes and bubble wrap. You purchased your heavier items, like pallet racks and shelving units from yet another company.When you purchase your supplies on the web, however, you can get everything you need from just one source. Doing this greatly streamlines your business in several ways.The most obvious way that it helps you is that you no longer have to go from one supplier to the other in order to get all the supplies you need at any given time. Being able to get them from a single source is a great time saver.Take a look at the way the site you order from is organized. All of the warehouse supplies are categorized, so you don't have to go searching for them. If you need boxes, you just click the link that leads you to boxes. Once you've found the boxes you need, you simply click your mouse and they are transferred to the checkout counter. Then you can move on to the next item on your list.All your packaging materials will be located on a menu under that tab, so you know exactly where to go for the new tape dispensers you need, as well as the bubble wrap and other goods cushioning products you may need. Whatever your packaging needs, you will find them there.The warehouse supplies company on the web will have everything even remotely connected to your warehouse needs. This will include cafeteria tables and other things you may have never associated with warehousing supplies before.You can see from these brief examples just how much easier it is to buy the supplies for your warehouse on the web. This in itself is a great time and money saver, but it gets even better. When you finally get to the checkout counter, you will probably find that the bill is much lower than you expected it to be.And the good news doesn't stop there. After you have placed your order, you know exactly where all of them are coming from and when they will arrive. You don't have to keep track of half a dozen different orders and hope that all of them get to you when you need them. You know in advance that they will all come together.Just as the web has streamlined and improved every other aspect of business, it has made buying warehouse supplies much easier and more efficient, too. Take advantage of the convenience and free up your working day for taking care of business.
