Sunday, September 18, 2011

Inside a Warehouse Supplies Web Catalog

By Justin Nielsen


What do you think of when you think of warehouse supplies? Usually, even people in the warehouse industry define the term narrowly as it applies to their business. To one company, a warehouse supply company provides packaging supplies. To another company, it supplies office products. Still another company thinks of materials handling equipment. The truth is; all of these and many more can be found in an online warehouse supply catalog.

"Warehouse supplies" is actually something of a misnomer, because far more businesses than warehouses purchase their equipment and supplies from a good "warehouse" supply company. A factory purchases its forklifts, pallet racks and virtually all of its materials handling equipment as well as its packaging supplies and office supplies from this company that is ostensibly in the business of supplying warehouses only.

You will be amazed by the breadth of goods available from a big online warehouse supplies catalog. The numbers of categories of goods alone runs into the dozens. The goal of such a website is to be able to offer everything an industrial enterprise needs for running its daily operations. This streamlines ordering supplies for the company, since they can get it all from just one supplier.

Rather than calling such a supplier a warehouse supplies company, it would probably be more accurate to call them a warehouse and industrial supplier. This will not cover all of the material handling and other goods they supply, but at least covers a broader range of products.

Among their voluminous list of material handling equipment and supplies will be a variety of containers as well as many types of manual and motorized equipment. These will include pallet and hand trucks, dollies, cranes, booms and other equipment designed for lifting and moving. Heavier equipment will include new and second hand forklifts and all of their accessories.

They will not leave anything out of their packaging supplies category, either. It will include all of the basic goods, such as boxes, wrapping paper, tape, labels, strapping and cushioning materials. In addition, they will offer the tools needed for packaging, including scales, dispensers and even packaging workstations. In a nutshell, there will be nothing that you need for packaging that they cannot supply.

Storage solutions will include the broad categories of bins and other containers, cabinets, lockers and shelving, including pallet racks. Other storage solutions will be included in other categories of goods, such as filing systems for the office and prefab buildings for outdoor storage.

As you can see, "warehouse supplies" does not adequately describe what is available from a well-stocked warehouse and industrial supplies company. Until you have seen for yourself what they have to offer, you won't believe it. Their aim is to supply everything that any industrial setting could possibly need except for the equipment necessary for manufacturing specific equipment. The best of these warehouse supply companies are succeeding at this, too.




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