Matt Baril

Idea #23 Warehouse companies can rent based on their space need. Inventory & shipping is managed for them

Working for an e-commerce company, I realized that it can be a serious problem for us to ship to Europe. A typical delivery takes 4 to 6 weeks and can be held in customs for a very long time and customer might even be charged taxes as well. It makes doing business difficult. The normal answer to that is to buy a warehouse and have stock in Europe, however this isn't always very useful for smaller e-commerce organizations.

The idea would be to buy or rent a warehouse which would be divided based on customers' needs; any customer could rent the amount of square feet they need. The warehouse would be dynamically divided to meet customers' needs. In order to accommodate smaller businesses, inventory as well as shipping would be automatically managed for them. If they close a sale on the continent, the warehouse would package and ship for their customer's customer. That should be appealing to any small e-commerce website who wants to improve sales on another continent without the high fix costs and risk associated with buying or renting a large warehouse.

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