Consumer demand for faster deliveries has presented logistics overseers and transportation carriers with an ultimatum: “Get my goods to me as quickly as possible or risk losing my business.” To attract and retain consumers, enhance satisfaction, and remain competitive, an increasing number of retailers are partnering with retail lumper services such as those provided by a leading firm, Express Freight Handlers. By utilizing our lumper services, retail businesses can improve and streamline their supply chains. Our services help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhancing inventory accuracy during the labor-intensive unloading of freight. By outsourcing this process to our professionals, retailers can focus on core operations, scale labor needs on demand, and strengthen key logistics partnerships. Here’s how:
Improve Warehouse Efficiency
Using Express Freight Handlers’ professional retail lumper services will significantly reduce the time trucks spend at a retailer’s receiving dock, preventing costly delays and bottlenecks.
- Faster unloading: Our experienced lumpers specialize in freight handling, using efficient techniques and the tools and equipment required to unload and sort goods faster than standard warehouse staff.
- Optimal labor allocation: Your in-house warehouse staff is freed from the physically demanding task of unloading and can be reassigned to activities such as order fulfillment and inventory management.
- Expert product handling: Our trained lumpers ensure rapid and safe handling of perishable or fragile items, preserving product quality and preventing spoilage for retailers.
Reduce costs and financial risk
Partnering with Express Freight Handlers for retail lumper services, including loading and unloading trailers and containers, will lower your overall overhead costs and reduce financial liability for your retail business.
- Avoid detention fees: Faster truck turnaround times reduce the risk of your business incurring detention fees paid to carriers caused by excessive wait times at the dock.
- Minimize labor overhead: A flexible lumper service allows retailers to scale labor based on fluctuating demand, avoiding the fixed costs associated with hiring, training, and providing benefits and insurance for a permanent in-house team.
- Reduce damage and errors: Express Freight Handlers’ expertise in lumper services and quality control helps prevent costly product damage and handling errors that can lead to returns, restocking, and lost sales. Outsourcing this task to our experienced lumpers, you, the retailer, can minimize your risk.
Enhance Inventory Accuracy and Visibility
The unloading process is a crucial point for ensuring inventory data is accurate from the moment it enters the warehouse.
- Real-time updates: Our teams are deployed with a supervisor who can provide real-time updates on unloading progress, allowing your warehouse management system (WMS) to update inventory counts immediately.
- Accurate documentation: Upon request, our lumpers verify and cross-check inventory against shipping documents as they unload, ensuring that the right products and quantities are received. Any discrepancies are identified and documented early.
- Improved organization: A well-structured and predictable receiving process will provide your logistics team with better visibility into incoming inventory, enabling improved planning and more effective customer demand fulfillment.
Strengthen carrier and vendor relationships
Partnering with Express Freight Handlers helps create a more efficient, reliable, and professional receiving process—leading to stronger relationships with your transportation partners and improved operational performance.
- Reduced driver downtime: Carriers benefit when their drivers spend less time waiting to be unloaded. This improves driver morale and productivity, making you, as a retailer, a more desirable customer.
- Seamless scheduling: Our retail lumper services utilize advanced scheduling and communication platforms to coordinate arrival times and unloading requirements with carriers, ensuring a smoother, more predictable process for everyone involved.
- Standardized process: A consistent lumper service provides standardized, safe, and professional unloading every time, which ensures a positive and reliable experience for every incoming vendor and carrier.
Express Freight Handlers deploys skilled and experienced retail lumpers nationwide. Contact Express Freight Handlers today to start a conversation about reducing overhead, improving inventory control, and creating a better experience for your logistics partners.
