“IT USED to be just in time warehousing, now it’s just in case warehousing,” explained Iain Mitchell, managing director of John Mitchell Haulage & Warehousing.
He candidly admitted that’s a quote from an industry colleague but added: “It’s certainly one I associate with. Because of the uncertainty in the supply chain, people would rather spend money having too much stock sitting on the ground than having no materials followed by production shutting down.”
That more or less sums up what is arguably the biggest issue for warehousing: there just isn’t enough of it. It’s sector, and produce dependant, but industries that rely on raw materials have the jitters about whether they’ll get enough of what they need to sustain production, so they’re buying up as much storage space as they can get.
