Short Term Hire: Focus on Warehouse Equipment
With the rise of online shopping continuing to gather pace, warehouses are becoming increasingly important resources for many businesses. For many, short term hire of warehouse equipment can be the perfect solution.
Benefits of Short Term Hire for Warehouse Operations
Achieving and maintaining an efficient warehouse can be hard work, especially as they are usually busy environments with lots of moving parts. However, short-term hire could bring benefits to your warehouse facility.
Manage Demand
Demand can increase significantly at any time and at short notice. Online shopping is already normal for many people and businesses, but as demand peaks during the busiest periods, warehouses and distribution centres must deal with the bigger workload.
This situation can cause difficulties for companies who aren’t flexible in their approach. If staff can’t process orders quickly enough due to equipment shortages, this will lead to inevitable delays and missed deadlines for customers. However, businesses can lower this risk by hiring additional equipment to manage the increased demand.
Hiring equipment also means you can avoid spending a large amount of money on buying a machine that would only be used for short periods.
Keep Cost Under Control
Short-term hire is often much more affordable than purchasing equipment outright. This can free up money for other areas of your business and ensure greater financial flexibility in the long term. Briggs Equipment have very competitive hire rates and many seasonal offers. We can provide the warehouse equipment you need, when you need it, which will help you manage your cashflow.
Trusted Products
We provide warehouse equipment from trusted manufacturers. Whether it’s pallet trucks, pallet stackers, reach trucks, very narrow aisle (VNA) machines, forklifts or access equipment, we have the solutions to meet your requirements.
Each piece of equipment goes through a robust maintenance and inspection programme before it leaves our depot to ensure compliance with all current safety standards. When you hire from Briggs Equipment, you will receive safe, quality and reliable products backed up by a nationwide network of engineers and short-term hire specialists.
The Expert's View
Briggs Equipment have a dedicated team of hire specialists. Our Head of Short Term Hire, Steve Fogg, provides his thoughts on the benefits warehouses can experience by hiring:
“Warehouses are unique environments that are prone to spikes in demand and activity. Therefore, businesses should always be on the lookout for opportunities to supplement their existing fleet of core machines with high-quality short-term hire equipment. Our hire business allows for greater flexibility and the ability to access a wider variety of specisalist equipment. Whether it’s VNA machines, access equipment or pallet stackers that you require, hiring provides a much greater choice and allows your business to become more responsive and agile to industry demands.”
For more information about identifying the right machine for your business, call us today on
03301 23 98 50
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Short Term Hire Case Studies
Showcasing our short term hire variety at Hampton Court
We were delighted to supply a diverse equipment solution to Hampton Court Palace recently. The JCB machines and Hyster forklift were used in the set-up of infrastructure for the annual festival that takes place at the palace.
Briggs Equipment delivers new equipment to paper specialists
To help improve efficiency and productivity within their warehouse environment, paper manufacturing specialists, Brown Brothers Group have taken delivery a new forklift fleet from Briggs Equipment.
Fully customised fleet ticks every box for Pentagon Freight Group
Pentagon Freight Group has taken delivery of four new Hyster forklift trucks to help bolster operations at their Dartford warehouse hub. The new trucks are all fully customised to meet specific working requirements on site and have
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