If your business sells products, you can’t avoid product kitting and assembly. Packaging and shipping your wares is a crucial part of your business, but it’s far from the main focus. A better approach to these aspects is using NowFactory for your product kitting and assembly. Here are three reasons why you should.

Doing Your Own Product Kitting and Packaging Is a Resource Drain

If you’re a small business, you have plenty of things to spend your time on. You’d probably say that there’s more to do than there are people to do it, most of the time. And the smaller your business, the truer this becomes.

Solopreneurs or Amazon FBA businesses with just a small number of employees simply don’t have a person who they can assign to product kitting and packaging. For businesses like these, relying on a partner like NowFactory can be truly transformational for the business. Doing so will free up precious human resources to focus on other areas of the business.

If your business is a bit larger, you still might determine that the resource drain of product kitting, packaging, assembling and shipping is just too high. Perhaps you want to focus on new product discovery and development or customer success once products reach customers. Offloading product kitting and packaging is a great way to narrow your focus to what’s most important.

Creating a Packaging Prototype Is Inefficient and Difficult for Small Businesses

Not only is the physical aspect of product kitting and packaging a resource drain, so is the process of developing your packaging.

Small businesses don’t tend to have an entire warehouse full of packaging materials to play with. Creating your packaging prototype tends to involve ordering various packaging components at high cost and high inefficiency until you’ve pieced together the best solution you can think of.

Doing this well — and efficiently — is nearly impossible for businesses until they reach a certain (very large) size. We all know this to some degree from personal experience, too: you’ve purchased products with barely functional or alarmingly ugly packaging before, and this is why. Doing it well is difficult—unless that’s the main thing you do.

At NowFactory, we do have the warehouse full of packaging components, and this is what we do. We can create a better packaging prototype for you, with high efficiency and lower costs.

Material Costs Can Be High

The economy of scale is not kind to small businesses. It’s why global fast-food chains pay next to nothing per cup or straw, but the mom-and-pop restaurant is dropping around a dollar on every to-go container. It also explains why your material costs are so high compared to those for mega-manufacturers or global retailers.

It’s frustrating, but you can’t get the same rates on packaging materials as the big guys. But since packaging is what we do, we can. By relying on a partner that’s laser-focused on product kitting and packaging, you gain from economy of scale beyond what you could independently.

Amazon FBA Businesses Can Gain the Most

Everything in the previous three points is true for Amazon FBA businesses, which can potentially gain the most from working with NowFactory. Bundled products can be the secret sauce for FBA, but physically doing the bundling in a quality, professional manner can be a challenge. Not to mention, following Amazon’s packing guidelines and procedures is its own full-time job.

At NowFactory, we provide all the above advantages to Amazon FBA businesses, including next day delivery and ensuring that Amazon’s packing guidelines and procedures are followed with efficiency and consistency.

Ready to upgrade to pro-grade product kitting and assembly? Reach out now to get started!