Selling Without a Warehouse
Order Fulfilment From Our Facilities
Holding stock is one problem; getting individual orders out of it accurately is a different one, and it is the part that scales badly when a business grows. We hold the goods, pick against each order, pack them to travel and send them out. It runs on the same accurate stock position as our inventory management, because you cannot pick reliably from a number you do not trust.
What Fulfilment Covers
From Shelf to Customer
The steps between an order arriving and a parcel leaving, handled as one service.
- Receiving and booking in your stock
- Storing it in pickable locations
- Picking each order against its lines
- Packing for transit and protection
- Labelling and documentation
- Dispatch and onward delivery
Want Us to Fulfil Your Orders?
Tell us what you sell and how many orders a week
Discuss Fulfilment Call +971 4 239 7107What Makes Fulfilment Fail
Fulfilment is mostly a discipline problem. Four things account for most of the complaints.
Picking the wrong item
Accuracy comes from stock being located properly and picked against the order, not from memory. Location discipline is what prevents mis-picks.
Packing that does not survive
Goods packed for storage are not packed for transit. Fragile and high-value items are prepared to travel - see professional packing.
Stock figures nobody trusts
Selling stock you do not have is worse than being out of stock. Fulfilment sits on a counted position, not an assumed one.
The handover to delivery
An order packed on time and collected late has still failed. Dispatch runs into our own transport rather than waiting on a third party.
Who It Suits
Businesses That Use This
Fulfilment tends to make sense at the point where doing it yourself starts costing more than it saves.
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Traders selling into the UAE market
Importers holding stock locally and shipping orders out as they come, without leasing their own space.
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Businesses with uneven demand
Where order volume swings seasonally and a fixed warehouse team would be idle half the year.
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Companies without a local base
Overseas suppliers who need stock physically in the UAE and someone here to send it out.
Why Cannata
Storage, Picking and Delivery in One Place
Most fulfilment problems happen at a boundary between companies. Here there are fewer boundaries. This work runs from our Al Hamriya site in Deira, in the trading quarter the goods are usually destined for.
Picked from counted stock
Orders are filled against a physically verified position rather than a spreadsheet estimate.
Our own warehouses
Three Dubai sites we operate, so the stock and the people handling it are in the same business.
Dispatch on our fleet
Orders leave on our own vehicles, so a packed order is not waiting on someone else's collection.
Rate Request
Get a price for this shipment
Give us the route and the cargo and we will come back with a rate, usually within one working day.
Our FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What customers ask about order fulfilment.
