Warehousing now outsourced
EMPOWERMENT AND outsourcing go hand in hand, and by allowing former employees to become management in their own right, companies are helping to develop the previously disadvantaged groups.
That is the view at Premier Freight where the warehousing and distribution facility, previously handled by its subsidiary Premier Logistics, was outsourced in April last year.
Empowerment gives the former employees that kick to go the extra mile, and we are all benefiting from the move, says sales and marketing director Richard Adamson.
We have been actively engaged in outsourcing for a few years, and moved our motor cycle fleet out to being an owner-rider operation. The warehouse and distribution decision was the big one and we have experienced substantial service benefits from the move.
We are now a client to the people to whom we outsourced, and we find they take considerable pride in what they are doing, and do it well. It started with the outsourced operation being taken over by former employees but they, in turn, have experienced expansion in their company with the result that they have had to take on additional employees.
It is a clear manner in which to create jobs and we are now looking at other developments where we may well outsource in the same way at a later stage.
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