What is Warehouse Logistics, And Why Is It The Right Move For Your Growing Business?

Ever wondered how your favourite brands manage to keep up with rising demands for their products? They’re definitely not stocking everything within their HQs and ROs! Enter warehousing logistics – the best way to keep their manufacturing steady without flooding their spaces.

Despite existing for many decades in the form of godowns in the unorganized sector, warehousing in India has seen exponential growth in the last decade. This rise cannot be addressed without mentioning its biggest catalyst – ecommerce. An industry that rose from 7% to 44% in 2024 (India Warehousing and Storage Market (2024-2030) Outlook), ecommerce and warehousing solutions kept one another buoyant through the pandemic and beyond.

Now, when you hear warehousing solutions, you think of a third party helping you with goods storage, and you are right!… Partially. Warehousing solutions are more than just storing goods for companies, for example, at XpressBees it includes inventory, storing, order processing, and dispatching. Think of warehousing solutions as the engine that powers the supply chain, ensuring every cog fits perfectly.

Can you handle warehouse logistics in-house?

Storing goods in a centre till ordered by a customer seems easy enough on paper – which leads one to wonder, why not just do it in-house? But in theory, warehousing is anything but easy.  In-house warehouse logistics involve significant costs, including infrastructure, technology, equipment, and staffing investments. Expenses like warehouse leases, vehicle purchases, and ongoing maintenance can create a financial burden, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Bottomline – yes, it can be handled in-house, but the amount of moving parts it entails in keeping the supply chain process smooth isn’t worth the hassle for most companies. 

Hence, 3PL players like XpressBees are slowly gaining momentum in a bid to help businesses scale operations, optimize delivery timelines and lower capex while maintaining an ‘Asset Light’ model. These advantages alone are pushing businesses in sectors like retail, FMCG, manufacturing etc. to shift to a Warehousing Solution model.

Benefits of outsourcing warehouse logistics

Anything that halves your stress, capex and labour while doubling your efficiency is worth a try. But beyond the obvious, there are some key benefits of warehouse and logistics solutions that will make anyone reconsider: 

1. Effortless Inventory Management
   Say goodbye to stockouts or overstocking! An efficient 3rd party logistics warehouse, like XpressBees offers simplified warehouse management systems (WMS) to ensure:
   • Accurate inventory tracking
   • Prevent overstocking or stockouts
   • Ensure products are always available at the right place.
2. Faster Order Fulfillment: Strategically located warehouses can reduce your shipping time and expenses. With warehouses located purposely across 40+ cities, we power your business to allocate orders to facilities closer to customers, ensuring quick processing and delivery. That means happier customers and more repeat business. 
3. Cost Efficiency: Optimize storage, minimize wastage, and lower shipping expenses. With smart logistics, every rupee saved is a rupee earned.

4. Improved Product Safety: Top-rated 3rd party logistics warehouses, like XpressBees, offer controlled environments to protect products from spoilage or quality degradation. Also, it provides insured facilities, ensuring compensation for inventory damage or loss.
5. Scalability: As your business grows, handling increased inventory becomes challenging. XpressBees offers types of warehouses in logistics, like bonded or unbonded warehouses, to provide scalable solutions to accommodate growth without significant investment.

Choosing the right partner

We already know that Warehousing Solutions are easily available with a click of a button now, but what truly matters is choosing the right partner. While there is an industrious transformation in the way warehousing has moved from a solely on–paper model to becoming digitized, the right technologies applied to incur 0 errors and reap maximum benefits are harder to find. 

Logistics companies in India that use the Internet of Things (IoT) for SKU* handling, automate inventory monitoring, use big data to forecast changes in volume and customer demands, and work with optimized navigation software for driver delivery routes are few and far between.

The trick is to find a logistics partner that combines industry-leading best practices in warehouse logistics and customizes them for your needs. At XpressBees, for example, excellence is driven by seamless operations and exceptional service: 

• Optimized Layout. Our warehouses are designed with efficiency in mind to reduce travel time for the product and streamline operational workflow to maximize productivity. 
• Embrace Technology. We leverage a technology-driven approach to enhance accuracy, track inventory, and speed up processes. 
• Skilled Teams. At XpressBees, we invest in continuous training programs, ensuring our workforce is well-prepared to handle evolving logistical demands with expertise. 
• Data-Driven Insights. We identify improvement areas and maintain top-notch operational standards monitoring key performance indicators such as inventory turnover and order accuracy. 

These best practices power our operations and enable our clients (your business) to achieve unparalleled logistics efficiency.

XpressBees in action- a brief case study

Amongst XpressBees’ 80+ warehousing clients is a fashion retailer that faced challenges with fragmented logistics and operational inefficiencies, hindering their growth.

With the right pointed solutions from XpressBees they achieved centralized management, streamlined inventory tracking, and reduced order processing times by 40%! Low capex was not within their reach when XpressBees’ cost-effective pricing dropped their operational expenses by 25% even after the order volumes surged by 60%. This strategic partnership enhanced customer loyalty and allowed the retailer to focus on scaling their business.

So, are you also ready to elevate your business and give it a competitive edge?

Let us unlock the full potential of your logistics and ensure your supply chain runs like clockwork. Visit XpressBees Today!