Your business has its own unique requirements for product storage; your totes and trays need to suit your needs. A company that manufactures boots, for instance, will need different storage dimensions than a company that makes car wash supplies. A smaller company will have different ordering capacity and storage facilities than a large company. You get the idea.
Overlooking your warehouse storage solutions has always been inadvisable. It results in wasted space, inefficient systems, increased safety risks, and a greater likelihood of damaged products. With automated warehousing and distribution, quality totes and trays have become even more important. If you are going to invest in automation, you need to invest in automation-compatible totes. To maximize efficiency, eliminate wasted expenses, and ensure automation compliance, you need a warehouse tote supplier that sees themselves as a partner. You need a supplier who works with you to not only create optimal storage for your warehouse, but to offer those totes in dimensions, quantities, and delivery times that work for you. No minimum orders or standard sizes, and no delays from overseas shipping hold-ups. Let’s talk about it.
THE WASTEFULNESS OF HIGH MINIMUM ORDER QUANTITIES
Unfortunately, when tote companies demand high minimum order quantities, it creates these undesirable outcomes of unnecessary costs and excess inventory that takes up valuable storage space. You should be using your warehouse to store product, not excess totes and trays. Instead of spending money on totes you don’t need, you could be allocating those costs to business or product development.
THE OPERATIONAL RISK OF OVERSEAS MANUFACTURING
Ordering your totes and trays overseas can seem like an appealing option upfront, particularly regarding cost. But cost-effective options do exist onshore—we know, because we offer them. But moving your storage solutions onshore isn’t just about money; it’s about avoiding operational risks such as supply chain issues, shipping delays, and the unpredictability that can come from overseas manufacturing.
THE PROBLEM WITH STANDARD TOTES
One-size-fits-all rarely actually fits all. In working with a diverse range of clients, we’ve found that storage needs vary from company to company. Going custom with your totes allows you to create storage solutions that fit your product, maximizing your storage space. And when you can maximize your storage space, you can maximize your inventory and with that your sales. It truly is amazing what even an extra 10% in storage can do for your bottom line.
Not everything is about size, though. Custom totes also allow for automation-integrated design, allowing you the option to upgrade your warehouse and distribution system to comply with the latest in automated technology for increased efficiency and safety. And custom totes and trays are better built to last longer. Warehouses are a tough environment, and your totes need to be built to withstand the rough handling, making your investment last longer.
HOW YOUR TOTE SUPPLIER CAN IMPROVE YOUR WAREHOUSING SYSTEMS
The right warehouse tote supplier can make all the difference. Instead of adding to your challenges and potentially creating new ones, like bottlenecks in storage supply or finding space to store excess totes, we work as a partner interested in boosting your business and helping to solve problems. How? By offering flexible MOQs, keeping our manufacturing local, and offering custom-designed totes made to suit your unique needs.
Flexible MOQs
Because we keep production local, we can adjust to customer needs, from small pilot runs to full-scale rollouts. This adaptability allows our clients to order exactly the quantity they need and not waste storage space on excess totes.
Local Manufacturing for Faster Delivery
By partnering with a network of manufacturers across North America, we have managed to reduce lead times and eliminate the shipping uncertainty that frequently happens with overseas manufacturers. Not only is this beneficial for our clients, but it also helps provide local jobs and keeps investments in our local economy. It’s a win-win-win situation.
Custom Sizes and Smarter Design
Our process is designed to assess the unique needs of our client’s business, prototype a solution, test it and test it thoroughly to ensure it meets their needs, and then head into production. This ensures that the totes are designed for purpose, efficiency and durability.
The key to success is flexibility. Being locked into rigid tote solutions that expect your unique needs to fit into a standard mold are no longer viable. Flexible MOQ’s, local production, and customized totes are the solution for creating warehouses that actually work with and for your company.