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Are you a business within the surrounding area’s of Los Angeles? Corporate events can be rather time intensive to plan and can cost way too much for your organization to implement. A lot of businesses these days are tightening their belts when it comes to planning outside sales management procedures due to the risky economic environment. However, there is a cost effective action in which your business could bring into the picture.

Why not host an employee event where everyone would be able to compete against one another through racing indoor karts? It is relatively cheap and is much more enjoyable for your colleagues compared to the usual boring sales meetings. Everyone will have a chance to push their own kart to the limits within indoor race tracks stressing the importance of a little competition outside the office. Additionally, individuals who partake in these events will not have to suffer in the dreaded heat of Los Angeles in which we all know of, but don’t like to admit it during Los Angeles corporate events.

Having the chance to race indoor karts is the most memorable communication building experiences in which your employees can become apart of. If you’re a business within Los Angeles, corporate events that require your co-workers to become apart of a spirited unit will encourage them to get to know one another. In the long run these races will help you increase your total business communication due to the fact that individuals must work together and build relationships in order to successfully win each race they are contending for. 

I have personally been apart of one these corporate events where we were able to race indoor karts alongside one another and I am telling you there is nothing more satisfying than seeing the look on your boss’s face when you fly by them in a go kart. 

I run a housewares business, importing glasses and tiles from the Middle East and Mediterranean. Like most exports from the area destined for the eastern seaboard, most of my inventory makes it way through ports in New Jersey. To service my clients – mostly higher-end home design stores – I had to run LTL sized orders from my NJ warehouse to destinations all up and down the coast: from Portland, ME, to Miami, Florida. While my business is one built on solid markups, the cost of transportation sometimes ate as much as 1/3 of my gross margin.

I was astute enough to realize that I could use some assistance with logistics. I wasn’t sure exactly what sort of help I needed, but I was sure there had to be a better way to manage and deliver inventory more effectively – whether it was requiring my customers to order more, or storing it closer to them. On the recommendation of a friend who runs a paper business in New Jersey, I contacted Transport System Inc., basically to get their consultation on ways to reduce my freight shipping costs overall.

After hours of free consultation and taking time to understand my inventory and replenishment cycles, they were able to devise a somewhat decentralized solution that would allow me to deliver full trailer loads to other warehouses up and down the east coast, from which LTL sized orders could still be filled. This allowed me to serve my customers better, since I didn’t require them to wait until I could get a mostly full trailer to their area – and mine is not a high quantity (by actual volume) business: tiles and glasses are small and expensive.

From a main NJ warehouse, inventory gets moved to satellite locations by the trailer load. With the help of an asset management solution that TSI implemented for me, I am now able to see my real-time inventory all up and down the coast, which allows me to plan my buying and importing much better. The net result is that I am actually holding the same quantity of inventory, but delivering it much faster (same day or overnight for most of the East Coast at no extra charge to customers), more reliably, and far more cost effectively. I also have new markets that have been opened up to my products by new capacity elsewhere – TSI has setup my logistics for a push into the Midwest / Chicago market with a warehouse.

For businesses who are finding that logistics eats into a lot of their high margins because they are forced to ship LTL or deliver customer orders same day or overnight, having the humility to enlist the help of logistics experts is crucial. I had that humility – I can brag about it now – and it truly paid off. I am grateful for my carrier and warehouse company’s expertise.