Be Like a Billion Dollar Shipper

Life is changing and that is due to the economic impacts of covid 19.  We all now know that eCommerce is the answer to stay-at-home economies.  It has surged massively. That is just fine because people can learn super fast but if you have to help and tips along the way you won't have to fail over and over again or lose a lot of money when someone else has already done that and can help you out of it.  That is simply how the world gets better and smarter and it is by sharing knowledge of good and bad.  If your warehouse is on point then you can be working at a huge advantage versus your competition. 

Now my first job was at an army surplus company.  It was an old company that still ran their warehouse-like it was world war two when they started.  It was honestly a huge work hazard and should never have been allowed to be seen by any person or employee.  But since this company wanted to get itself into this century and with all the new eCommerce ways I took it on and decided to rock this task.

Shipping was the answer that was needed and I had a huge task to make this dump a useful place.  This place was about twice the size of the regular store and filled from floor to a 20-foot ceiling with old military gear, gadgets, and pants.  It was honestly impressive to see mountains of a stack of gear going to the ceiling with a single half a foot path moving through the whole warehouse to attempt to find things.  Under these massive piles were cardboard boxes that were 5 foot by 5 foot filled up to the brim and acting as a base for these mountains of junk.  With so little room to even work the only way to actually create space to work was to trash the unsellable items.  Many of the old-timers were completely against this and thought the warehouse had millions of dollars of worth.  This may have been worth something back in the day but not anymore. And only to a small few people.

We got rid of all the junk.  This took tons of dumper loads filled with old crap.  Old, but not valuable anymore. Yes, many items were beyond safety hazards. But slowly we worked enough room to build an aisle of shelves.  Then we kept organizing and used cardboard boxes to store organized piles on the new shelves.  We continued this process until the entire warehouse was neat and tidy and left 1/4 of it for packing and shipping.   This was what was needed and it took 6 months to completely finish the process. The new system we put in place was worth it and a simple person could use it which was key.

Our online store was organized now and we were able to do this because of all of our work in the warehouse.  This was an amazing way to find new profitable means of selling items.  With the extra space created we were able to have a place to find, pack, and ship worthwhile products that were lost or buried by old crap.  We are now in a new place and rocking it.