Strong supply chains are tightening operations to gain efficiencies and improved customer response times with outsourced fulfillment services. Digitype Design is keeping pace with those trends. For years clients have counted on Digitype Design to handle regional and national fulfillment of their large format imaging projects.
For many companies, fulfillment services are somewhat confusing and defined by their specific industry. E-commerce is where Amazon shines while other organizations handle customer samples, direct mail or promotional giveaways. Thinking they can save money some businesses even take on fulfillment. They usually find the manpower, time and space constraints lead to inefficiencies and profit losses. Your choice of fulfillment services provider can be as important as the finished product.
It’s hard to locate a fulfillment operator having the internal capacities and experience to handle large format imaging products. For instance, shipping sizable POP (point of purchase) displays takes unique safety packing for transit and destination assembly. Pre-production planning including order confirmation systems, a level of inventory management, shipment tracking and reporting are necessary. Since POP materials link your products to customer purchases displays should arrive undamaged, organized, and ready to do their job. Reaching that goal involves packing considerations like display dimensions, component count, and destination storage space.
Kitting references individual item assembly into kits ready-to-ship, then use. The practice is an economical way to package varying elements into a single unit. Once at a locale components are set up or distributed according to promotional plans. Kitting is frequently handled by Digitype Design when there’s a need for large format pieces, specialty packaging or collateral materials in a combined package.
Most in-house fulfillment efforts stretch staff and erode profit margins. In today’s fast moving business environment fulfillment services linked to large format imaging is more than a nice to do, it’s a must do. When inspecting operational and economic points of your visual marketing programs consider an experienced fulfillment partner like Digitype Design for getting your project over the finish line.