Value in using a local Courier Service
Posted by Mark Lucas on Friday, September 21, 2018 Under: Guest Motorcycle Articles
For any manufacturing company, downtime can be a nightmare. Thankfully, production down time can be planned to avoid major service disruptions and ensuing financial losses.
How you manage down time can very well mean the difference between a year of profit and a year of loss, making it imperative that manufacturing companies use whatever resources they have at their disposal to limit down time. Production lines shut down due to unscheduled maintenance may be the most frustrating, though luckily, wise companies have a courier service that they can depend on to get replacement parts quickly. Having a reliable local courier service at your disposal is an absolute necessity in order to get an expedited delivery picked up from your vendor and delivered to you via direct service.
That's not to say that a courier service is used only for mechanical issues. Many companies utilize courier services as a regular part of their production schedule in order to meet time constraints or incentives to finish production schedules in short periods of time. Such tight schedules may push expenditure slightly, but it also allows you to secure bids and more profitable transactions. Freight arriving "just in time" can make or break an account relationship. Securing a local courier service that you can depend on is one of the most important investments a production or transportation manager can make.
The two most important factors to consider when choosing who to trust with your freight are speed and reliability, and it's here that local courier services really shine. International shipping juggernauts like UPS and FedEx pull from potential markets billions strong; to them, a missed or delayed shipment is simply a fact of doing business-an acceptable loss that's already been written in to their bottom line. For those of us who aren't doing billions of dollars a year in business, however, the reality is a little different: there is no such thing as an 'acceptable loss'.
Local courier services operate on your level; they know how important your shipment (and your client) is to you, because you are just as important to them. Next time you need to ship locally, partner with someone who thinks locally.
Whether you're replacing a part or working to meet a demanding production schedule, work with someone who cares about your business as much as you do.
So does a local courier service have value? I believe the answer is obvious.
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