100 warehouse milestone

It launched in February 2016 for warehouses to register available space, securing enough by May to launch its search facility for potential customers. From August, Zupplychain users were able to start taking advantage of its Stock Database warehouse management system.

“Zupplychain has developed at an accelerating pace since we launched our search facility in May,” says Zupplychain MD Martin Elgood. “We’ve had a tremendously successful ‘pay-per-click’ campaign to attract potential customers with pallets to store. A surprise benefit of this was that it has also brought us a surge in warehouse providers registering as they see the strength of our customer proposition and marketing.

“It was particularly satisfying to pass the 100 warehouses benchmark, though the moment didn’t last long – we shot past it with 10 new warehouses in one week. In addition, from August we started seeing confirmed storage agreements between warehouses and customers, and are looking forward to hitting the 100 agreements benchmark too by the end of the year.”

Stock Database allows customers and warehouses to share information on the stored pallets and request and confirm pallet movements, with no set up costs. The Stock Database forms a central plank in Zupplychain’s mission to build a fully integrated communication and operational system for pallet storage in third party warehouses. Further development to the Stock Database is underway to enable Zupplychain customers to manage their stock within their warehouse too, alongside the stock in Zupplychain warehouses.

Also being launched next month by Zupplychain will be the facility to receive transport, distribution and fulfilment quotes through Zupplychain’s on-line enquiry and quotation system.