Offsite Storage Management - Case Study

What is a Managed Offsite Storage Solution?

Your organization has stuff stashed everywhere in your offices, labs, or retail space. Then someone with the skills, warehouse space, and tech takes over and manages your stuff for you – with their staff, space, and tech tools – to deliver a complete turnkey solution for your team.

Why?

When executed properly, a managed offsite storage/warehousing solution is a huge time, talent and money saver for any organization, moving tasks and resources from the client side to an expert provider, who usually has excess capacity (space, talent, equipment, tech) to share.

The result is a professional-grade third party solution that delivers just the stuff your organization needs, just when you need it, thus allowing you and your team to focus on your organization's core competencies.

A Success Story – MilliporeSigma

Last year, the lab teams at MilliporeSigma (MS) in Rockville, MD were struggling to keep up with tons of lab supplies they had accumulated after the end of the COVID pandemic.

Like many bio-pharma companies in the area, MS had encountered serious supply chain challenges post-COVID and reacted by hoarding many of the lab supplies needed to perform their daily work.

The result: several sea containers with lab supplies sitting in the parking lot and stacks of cartons in the hallways, empty offices, and lab areas.

Shared Spaces met with MS physical facilities management and proposed a test-run of a managed offsite storage program.

We transferred a large amount of lab supplies to our warehouse (which had some idle spaces), catalogued all the inventory in our warehouse management system (WMS), gave their team members access to a web-based interface to browse their inventory and place orders, and set up an order delivery schedule twice per week to their facilities in Rockville.

After nearly a year, this program has been a huge success. Shared Spaces can monetize idle/surplus resources and MS lab professionals can devote more time to their lab work – instead of spending time tracking inventory on spreadsheets, moving boxes around, finding empty offices to stash their lab supplies, etc.

Intrigued?

Please let us show you how Shared Spaces can help you implement a professional-grade, turnkey managed storage/warehousing solution in a matter of days.

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