Services: Traditional Warehousing

Once product leaves your production floor, the goal is to get it to the customer as quickly and economically as possible. However, most manufacturing facilities are not able to coordinate the materials procurement with the production flow as well as the fluctuations in customer demands. The result is often the over handling of materials.

• The logistics professionals at Bekins are able to inventory and store raw materials, making them available to you when you need them. Bekins logistics professionals carry the responsibility of placing your raw materials in space that best matches their turn ratio. You will no longer miss your FIFO pick requirements because product is buried behind seasonal inventory.
  
  
• Bekins is investing heavily in state of the art warehouse technology to utilize the capability of RF scanners with interleaving capability. This will ensure that the most efficient use of time and space create an environment where order fulfillment time is drastically reduced.
  
  
• Bekins continues to purchase materials handling equipment best suited for your products. Whether your product requires racking or stacking, forklifts and attachments or manual handling, conveyors, re-palletization or simple put-away, you can be confident that Bekins is prepared to handle your inventory with appropriate equipment. As your material requirements change, you will not have to invest in these specialized equipment requirements.
  
  
• Your production floor can be increased without expansion of the manufacturing site as you move your storage, handling, preservation and delivery of product from your location to ours.
  
  
• Securing your safety stock in a third party logistics provider’s warehouse can be a protection from sudden disruption in service created by strike, catastrophe, or natural disaster.
  
  
• Traditional warehousing may offer you the opportunity to purchase in larger quantity than your ability to store. If your company wants to take advantage of these economies of scale without tying up valuable production space, traditional warehousing may be your choice.

Once our customers have utilized our traditional warehouse services and have come to know the value of Bekins, they often explore the collaborative partnership option to further explore the advantages of working with logistics professionals.