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Reduce Detention Fees with FHI's Managed Workforce Solutions

Written by FHI | Mar 15, 2024 8:56:51 PM

The Detention Fee Dilemma

As a distribution center or warehouse manager, you understand the significant impact detention fees from carriers can have on your bottom line. Beyond the financial impact, these penalties can affect your relationships with carriers and the goal of being the destination-of-choice. These fees not only eat into your profits but also disrupt your operations, leading to delays and inefficiencies. Moreover, they often signal underlying issues in your process, such as inefficient staffing or poor scheduling.

However, there is a solution that can help alleviate this financial burden while streamlining your process: outsourcing your unloading to FHI.

The Solution: FHI's Fully Managed Workforce

By outsourcing your warehouse labor to FHI, you can significantly reduce detention fees and mitigate associated costs and liabilities. Here's how:

  1. Efficient Staffing: FHI provides a fully managed workforce that is trained, experienced, and ready to handle all aspects of your operations. This ensures optimal staffing levels at all times, minimizing wait times for carriers and reducing the risk of detention fees.
  2. Streamlined Processes: For more than 30 years, FHI has refined the art of working smarter, squeezing every drop of efficiency and productivity out of the process. Our production pay model is unique for each associate ensuring they are rewarded for efficiency and volume.
  3. Reduced headaches: Our teams include a dedicated on-site manager who is accountable for performance and safety. We’re there to solve problems not create more headaches.

Advanced Solutions for Optimal Performance

Beyond improving detention fees and overall improved productivity and efficiency, FHI offers access to FHI INSITE, a cloud-based system for data analytics, detailing real-time productivity data and insight to identify production bottlenecks and the ability to take immediate action.

Take Action Today

Don't let detention fees and inefficient processes drain your resources and hinder your warehouse operations. Take the first step towards reducing detention fees by maximizing efficiency with an experienced labor partner.  Schedule a call with FHI today to see how we can help.