Buy Your Cardboard Boxes In Bulk And Save On Packaging Costs
How do you buy in your cardboard boxes? Just when you need them? Or do you buy them in packs of 5, 10, or 20 from your local stationary supplier?
You may think that this latter method is cost efficient and that you are benefitting from some form of bulk pricing when purchasing twenty at a time. However if you are buying twenty at a time, ten times a month then you are not leveraging your purchasing power at all. Yet on the face of it you should be able to get a good deal as in reality your requirement is two hundred cardboard boxes, and not just twenty, and that number should be enabling you to negotiate a good discount.
The chances are though that if you are just buying them from a general stationary supplier, then you will still be paying far too much even if you negotiate a deal based on two hundred a month cardboard boxes.
What you really need to be doing if you are looking to buy cardboard boxes in any great volume (Say around one hundred or more boxes per month) is to find a specialist cardboard box wholesaler.
One prime reason for this is cost, they will beat your local supplier hands down, in fact you will probably be shocked at the difference in price between the two suppliers.
A cardboard box wholesaler has one very other big advantage, and that is the stock levels that they will be carrying will be huge in comparison. Even more so if they manufacture them themselves. This means no more running out of suitable boxes and just having to make do.
By going to a wholesaler it does not mean that if you order two hundred boxes per month, that you have to take delivery of them all at once. Indeed any good supplier will be able to drop ship them to you, either on a scheduled basis e.g. fifty per week, or on a call off basis, whereby you phone them to get the next fifty delivered when you are running low. The only disadvantage to not taking them all in one delivery is that you may incur multiple delivery charges, although often at less than £10 per delivery, if you have storage issues then these multiple delivery charges may not be an issue.
So as you can see it may well be worth looking at using a specialist wholesaler in order to improve your supply chain and prices paid for your boxes.