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| Services Offered by Warehouses |
Some of the common services offered by warehouses are: » Exact temperature, humidity and other physical conditions » Fully racked systems » Bonded facilities » Complete security » Receiving and transit sheds » Truck rentals or free truck service for a set time period » Home pick up and drop facility or door to locker facility » Secure scheduled destruction, if required by the client
As according to span of storage Warehousing Facility can be classified as: » Short Term Storage Services This service is there for a relatively temporary phase, while final settling takes place at the new location specified by the client. » Long Term Storage Services: In this service, normally the relocator from the client’s end needs a notice of around a week or two. The duration of storage is decided at the beginning of the period and the contract can be revised at the end of the agreed tenure, if required. » Storage in Transit (SIT): In case there needs to be a halt or a break journey, the goods are kept secured in the warehouse of the relocating company. This service may be free up-to a certain period or completely paid, depending on the nature of goods or the policies of the service provider. This also falls under the category of the temporary storage services. » Overnight Storage Services This facility is needed when there are scheduling conflicts and that storage is needed for just a night or two. This saves the customer substantial time and money that otherwise goes into renting a storage space and cost of unloading and reloading the belongings. The belongings stay on the locked truck and delivered to when needed. » Self Storage Services This facility offers personal as well as business users, a storage solution that they can control themselves. In this, the client packs the goods and gets them to the facility on his own. It is a secured solution because he can only access the storage unit the customer hires.
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