Why Outsource?

Did You Know?

By outsourcing some or all of your logistics needs to an expert you can:

• Decrease your operating costs
• Decrease your staffing costs
• Invest more money in your core competency
• Eliminate several labor concerns including unions, skilled labor and training
• Maintain flexibility within your organization to more effectively manage future demands
• Experience a higher level of personnel productivity
• Improve customer satisfaction rates

Why Outsource Your Logistics Needs to a Logistics Expert?

What’s your company’s expertise? It probably doesn’t involve logistics. But if you manufacture a product, you have to find a way to get that product down the supply chain to your customers, and chances are you’ve taken on the logistics responsibilities yourself.

This means that your business has dedicated a large amount of its work force, attention, and capital away from your expertise into a cost of running your business-handling your logistics needs. But in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, more and more manufacturers are realizing that by focusing on their core competency-their expertise, and leaving the supply chain logistics to an expert in that field, they can decrease costs, maximize their resources and improve customer satisfaction rates.

By outsourcing to a logistics expert, your products get stored, distributed and fulfilled more efficiently, and you have fewer headaches and more time and resources to devote to the money-making aspect of your business.

Knowing the incredible benefits that can be had for a company that utilizes an outsourcing model, DSA has discovered the issues that usually impede companies from switching to this model, and has developed programs to address them.

Companies usually cite one of two critical issues in their hesitancy to make the switch to outsourcing; the first is trust. Their products are their livelihood. They need to trust that their logistics expert will handle them with the utmost care and expertise and will be focused not only on their satisfaction, but also on their customer’s satisfaction.

For this reason, we have developed our Fast Track Real-Time Inventory Tracking system. Accessible from our website, day or night, this system allows our customers to log in with a unique username and password and instantly check on the status and location of all of their products. In addition, they can send any issues, questions or comments to their customer service representative directly from their unique login screen.

This tracking system gives our customers the added reassurance and trust that their products are being handled exactly as they should be.

To demo our Fast Track system, click here.

The second critical issue that can impede companies from making the switch to outsourcing is the need for flexibility. Most logistics companies offer an all or nothing proposition when it comes to leasing or outsourcing. It’s either one or the other, with no middle ground. But when moving into a new and unfamiliar outsourcing model, customers don’t want an all or nothing proposition.

They want flexible options that allow them to move as quickly or as slowly as they need to, and adjust their space needs as product demand peaks and falls throughout the year, and still maintain the level of control over their products that they’re comfortable with.

To address this very issue we have developed our popular Flex Space program, which allows our customers to outsource their logistics needs on their terms, at their pace.

Flex Space is a cost-effective combination of straight leasing of space and outsourcing that is truly the best of both worlds. Within this option, our customers can expand and/or contract their space commitment as their needs change and still maintain the control of their inventory they need to feel comfortable.

With short and long term arrangements available, additional capacity to manage overflow or seasonal spikes in inventory and an experienced pool of warehousemen available to augment labor requirements, this option truly addresses our customers' needs for flexibility when switching to an outsourcing model.

To find out more about why DSA is the best choice for your logistics needs, visit our Why Choose DSA? page here.