Aftermarket must get on-board with ‘virtual warehousing’

Charles Greaves is MD at the Staffordshire Klarius HQ and shares his experience about Virtual Warehousing

Aftermarket must get on-board with ‘virtual warehousing’
There are over 10,000 individual line items in the Klarius Products catalogue of exhausts, CATs, DPFs and mounting kits.

Speaking for a press release, managing director at the Klarius Staffordshire HQ, Charles Greaves explains how the company works hard on with its stockists to ensure stock is matched to a ‘live’ profile of national and regional sales.

Greaves said: “When you want to offer products, but don’t have the physical space to stock them, then the only way to do this is to ship direct from the supplier or manufacturer – or to ensure a delivery happens quickly enough that it can arrive at a distribution point from the manufacturer in a matter of hours and doesn’t hold-up the delivery even when compared to being picked from local stock and delivered.

“There are over 10,000 individual line items in the Klarius Products catalogue of exhausts, CATs, DPFs and mounting kits.

“So only Klarius keeps multiples of all those items in stock.

“Klarius delivers product every day around the country and deliveries will usually land in the morning next day, even if they have only been ordered the night before.

Electronic ordering system

“This means national stocks can be offered without distributors and stockists having to keep multiple items on the shelf.

“All you need then is for companies that chose to keep their stock at Klarius to be able to see the stock on their owner order system as if it were actually on site.

“If the electronic ordering system works seamlessly from client to supplier, to manufacturer, then hey presto, you have a Virtual Warehouse in operation”

Klarius owns and operates its own large van fleet that provides logistics support across the entire UK, delivering products nation-wide and making sure they are not damaged in transit.

Greaves said that Klarius hasn’t found any ‘downsides’ to the system: “We can even store stock that we did not manufacture and cut delivery costs on that too.

“It all sounds great and the natural assumption is to think about where we go next, we are not aiming to become the Amazon of the automotive aftermarket, but the virtual warehouse concept is working very well for us and our customers right now, it’s cutting costs, reducing delivery times and removing logistics issues, which has to be a win win.”

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