The needs of commercial tracking in detail

If you regularly ship goods using a parcel courier, how do you go about tracking your parcels? As an example do you manually write down where each of your parcels is going to? Do you note down which courier they have been sent with, and what time they were collected, and when they are due to be delivered?

Well even if you just ship a few parcels a day this is what you should be doing as a minimum to ensure that you have some form of goods tracking in place.

Now none of the above may seem important, as after all, all of your parcels always get delivered on time, and none ever go missing do they?

Well if you ship a lot of parcels then sooner or later one will go missing, and when it does if you have no tracking mechanism in place, then a simple missing parcel can ruin your whole day.

With no parcel tracking procedure in place trying to hunt down a missing parcel can quite literally take all day, with endless phone calls to and from your parcel courier, as well as keeping your end customer updated.

Not having any parcel tracking mechanism in place can lose you business - plain and simple.

However all is not lost and these days with the advent of the Internet a good parcel courier should be able to provide you with a free online parcel tracking system, whereby you can log on to the Internet from anywhere and see where your goods are at a glance. This can for sure work as a means to cut lefts of commercial theft and this too can work well as a means to be able to help in the running of a business and its process management.