subject: Transportation Service Helps Retain Customers [print this page] Transportation service has been the major aspect of business-to-business and business-to-consumer traders. Since picking up and delivering of goods on time makes a huge impact on a company. Third party logistics providers play a vital role of this service; as they are specialized in the core work of warehousing and transportation services, typically the service can be customized based on ones needs of pick up and delivery the materials/products. Transportation service generally includes the transporting of goods from a merchant/trader to end consumer. This service may vary on the company. Mostly, what happens is goods are driven from selection point to warehouse where goods are stored and managed; and when a trader receives an order the detailed information of the product from packing to delivery address is being sent to third party providers. This way the third party logistics providers fulfill transportation service by storing, packing, and delivering the goods.
Another aspect of transportation service can be simply pick-up and drop off. This segment can be understood by the term Pick and Drop itself, which simply means third party logistics picks up the product from defined place and delivers to consumers. This segment does not include storing, managing or packing of goods. Many companies offer multi-mode transportation such as Traditional LTL, Partial Truck Moves, Full Truck, Intermodal / Rail, Dedicated Fleet, Overseas Transportation and Clearing and Drayage from US Ports.
Third party logistic professionals also help building a rapport between consumer and a trader by delivering the product on time. Since on-time delivery customer service retains a customer for the next orders. And if product is not delivered on time, there is no doubt it can create wrong impact on customers and may increase odds of loosing a customer for a next order, so it becomes important to scrutinize the business by seeing the number of experience a company carries.
Apart from all this, once the product is in the process of delivering third party logistics also communicates about the order status with customer and trader. These facilities help B2B and B2C trader save a lot of time and expedite freight services plus helps lowering postage cost.
