Uninterrupted Packaging Supplies Vital for Smooth Dispatches

Dec 19
08:23

2011

Martin Guptil

Martin Guptil

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Cardboard Boxes & Cartons – we stock a vast range of both single wall and double wall boxes in various sizes, for industrial and warehouse use as well as for use within the removal and moving industry. We also sell a comprehensive range of removal kits, and cartons such as wardrobe boxes which are perfect for house moves.

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Have you ever come across situations in a factory,Uninterrupted Packaging Supplies Vital for Smooth Dispatches Articles where dispatches of finished materials were held up for want of incoming Packaging Supplies? Yes – that’s an awful situation, but it happens although rarely, due to improper planning or unavoidable circumstances like strike, floods etc. When such a situation arises, there are chain-like repercussions following it. For one thing you will see the finished products mounting at the Stores, and the staff will blink where to store further consignments, coming on and on from the production shop floor.

Secondly, there will be chaos from the customer-end, by non-receipt of your products according to the promised delivery schedules. Thirdly, there are chances of your losing business (apart from your hard-earned reputation of prompt supplier) with customers, for whom you are not in a position to send dispatches, due to the above situation. The list of such serious consequences, arising from this predicament is really long.

The term Packaging Supplies has an exhaustive meaning to include for example – Storage Boxes; Cardboard Boxes; Bubble Wrap; Packaging Boxes of single wall, double wall, made up of thick or thin cardboard, with or without polythene protection to prevent leakage etc. and also Moving Boxes, specially made for use in shipping, road transport and airfreight in assorted sizes. Tapes, strapping and other accessories also join the above list, to make the term complete.

The bulk requirement of the above Packaging Materials arises from manufacturer of products mainly, and also from wholesalers’ warehouses for packing products sorted out and to be sent to retail outlets for ultimate sale. Thanks to the Internet technology, there are many websites representing Packaging Materials Manufacturers, coming in handy to make the purchasing process easier and faster.

These sites dealing in bulk supplies (as also retail supplies in smaller volumes directly) of Packaging Materials have detailed categorization of their products, for easy identification by the needy customers. If you are the person looking after the purchase of Packaging Supplies for your company use, you can very well go to these sites by just clicking the mouse. You can go through every detail about each of the packaging product required by you, extensively explained out there.

You can compare prices of items and make an informed decision about the specific products to be ordered with them. You can easily do this ordering – again by clicking the mouse – and then the rest is taken care of by the supplier’s site, after sorting out the payment arrangements. They ensure prompt next day delivery service throughout the country of UK. However, you can plan ahead, by calculating the approximate consumption of these Packaging Supplies in a month, and ordering it regularly from these suppliers through their websites.

You can also give some allowance for extraordinary circumstances that can stand in the way of prompt supplies of these packing materials, and order a buffer stock to last for at least 3 days. This will take care of any exigencies, since uninterrupted Packaging Supplies are vital for smooth dispatches.