How The efulfillment service Companies Work?

Warehousing Management

Supporting all kind of logistic services to all big and small businesses, have you ever wondered that how these efulfillment service companies work? From the small or individual direct-to-consumer orders to large business-to-business; the third party logistic companies actually need to work while following a process so as to manage and efficiently completing their all logistic orders on time. So, to help you understand their functioning process, here we are listing a general guideline of their working procedure. Take a look:

1. Obtain the inventory

The very first step once you get an order from your end user is to receive product’s inventory from the suppliers or the manufacturers. So, whether you do it in-house or hire the services of efulfillment service companies; some of the most obvious things to do on receiving the inventory is:

Count the number of supplies with the number of order

2. Maintains inventory storage

Now after, receiving, counting, inspecting, labeling and adding the inventory to the software system, next you need to store them properly in a managed way. Proper storage makes sure that you can speed up your efulfillment operations that too with accuracy. Generally, a portion of inventory is stored near the packaging and shipping area so as to fulfill their order quickly. And rest of the inventory can be held deeper in more managed and well stored shelves. To make their storage planning well-organized, the fulfillment companies generally refer to their sales history so as to keep their order fulfillment process smooth and convenient.

3. Development of the order

Now, when all back work has been sorted and managed, the efulfillment service companies are ready to process companies’ orders. Generally, these companies integrate their fulfillment software with end user’s shopping cart so as to automatically receive an order as soon as it gets placed. And once the order is placed, the item that makes an order is picked from the shelf which then undergoes different quality check test and is then sent to order packing station from where after packing and sealing it further moves on to shipping station.

4. Make shipments

Here, the order package is weigh first to find out the best shipping method. The status of order delivery is also updated here so as to track the status of delivery and then the packaged order is finally shipped.

5. Returns processing

And not to forget, efulfillment service companies also work on return processing.