Outsource your warehouse service to Storage Peterborough -Ten Valid Reasons
1. Capital resources. If you add up the real cost of running a warehouse; the buildings, rates, insurance equipment, personnel, administration, health and safety provisions, computer systems and specialist software - do you think that the cost would be recovered if you sold your business? Would owning the asset enhance you value or is the value in your ability to market and sell products? You rent your accountant; you rent your solicitor; renting your warehouse and pick and pack services makes huge financial sense and ensures vital resources are allocated to the most important business function - sales and marketing.
2. Reduced Risk. Business ebbs and flows but how fast can you expand or contract to keep your bottom line? Outsourcing your warehouse and pick and pack operations means that you don't have to commit to what is likely to be a fixed space that cold either be a mill stone or a constraint. With Storage Peterborough you can grow and shrink your requirement to suit the conditions.
3. Specialist staff. Running a warehouse looks easy. How complicated could it be? Big shed full of pallets. All you have to do is know where your stock is located and remember a 100 little technical errors on the system and you'll find the stock easily . Storage Peterborough stock control has around 500,000 SKUs - from 6500 litre tanks to A4 document covers. We service businesses throughout the UK because we have a large pool of highly experienced staff who can fulfil any function. When you outsource you buy into our investment in our staff. When you visit - ask them.
4. Dedicated to the task. Storage Peterborough is a serviced storage warehouse. We are not a carrier with some space in a rented unit or a heavy goods haulier or a farmer with some outbuildings, or a developer waiting for a buyer for the building, or a self store business with a few empty shells. We don't worry about HGVs, tachographs and MOT's for vans before we think about your stock - we spend every moment ensuring that your customers are unaware that we exist. When you check out the competition - ask.. is this what they really do?
5. Computer expertise to match. Smoke and mirrors sums up most of the bunk talked about specialist computer systems. At the end of the day, your system will export files in .csv and if not you should ask why not. If you can export files in .csv you can import them and if your systems supplier has arranged it so you can't do that, you can check your stock on-line using our stock control system. Storage Peterborough operates with universally available software solutions and we have not come across a customer yet that can't get what they need - either input or output.
6. Very Narrow Aisle High bay storage. Yes you can stack a few pallets on the floor and yes you can put a couple of ranks of racking up (but you'll need mechanical handling). When you buy warehouse space you buy square metres (or square feet if you are lucky) so the higher you can go and the narrower the aisles, the more efficient you can be with your storage. Storage Peterborough at Harrier Park is 12.5m at the hip - which is about as high as you can go without running into insurance and health and safety issues that work against you - and the aisles are just wide enough for the turret trucks to pass using their wire guided systems.
7. Security. Tough one this. Storage Peterborough is located in a prime position on the Orton Southgate industrial area. This area does not flood and is not subject to a crime wave. As businesses we watch out for each other and act quickly if a 'risk' is detected. The outdoor compound has 2.4m palisade fencing and the buildings have all the usual deterrents and alarms and cameras etc. Will any of that put off a determined criminal? No. So as an extra precaution, we do not store any hot 'pub sale' products - that means (and sorry), no LED Flat screens, no laptops, no phones, no alcohol..
8. Flexibility. Storage Peterborough is owner managed and a family business. Most of the staff have been with us for over 10 years and some for over 20. We have run successful manufacturing businesses and been heavily involved with the service sector and so when we talk about flexibility, we mean throughout the business. Flexible in that we recognise that situations change; that contracts are for mutual benefit not safety nets; that people change and that you just need to get the job done before worrying about the cost sometimes.
9. Financially stable. Storage Peterborough is part of a group of businesses (see about us). The financial stability comes from a good old fashioned Victorian attitude to money. The group does not borrow more than it can pay back and it owns its assets. The group does not rent or lease buildings where it can buy outright and it owns the equipment and writes its own software. But most importantly the group is profitable - even in this (avoidable) 'recession'. If you are considering outsourcing your valuable stock, check very carefully into the ability for the storage business to withstand a shock. Trying to get your goods out of a fore-closed or wobbly storage business may not be the best way to spend a working week.
10. Cheerful. Why is being cheerful a reason to outsource your serviced warehouse storage to Storage Peterborough? Because life is testing enough without tackling each day from the position of borderline psychotic. Dealing with problems cheerfully enables people (some say) to be more creative, think laterally and start from the perspective of 'what CAN I do?'. We all laugh at the 'computer says no..' sketch; at Storage Peterborough the computer says 'yes' or we beat it up until it says yes.
