Since both the warehouse and the fulfillment center belong to the same industry they are usually considered the same. However, in reality, they are very different from each other. Warehouses and fulfillment centers are large buildings that are used to store inventory for companies that wish to sell their products. This is the only similarity between the two. In reality, both of them are quite different from each other and fulfill different purposes for the company. However, whether to use a fulfillment center or a warehouse completely depends on the nature of the business as well as on its requirements. AWL is one of the leading warehouse logistics companies that enables businesses with smart tech enabled warehousing solutions and fulfillment centers.

Usually, wholesale businesses or the ones that deal with bulk quantities of goods use warehouses to store their inventories. Renting or leasing a warehouse is a cost effective and smart idea to store inventory. Moreover, a fulfillment center can act as a warehouse but not vice versa. AWL introduced WAAS, which stands for Warehouse As A Solution. WAAS includes modern technology enabled warehouses that can provide you a competitive edge over other competitors in the market.

The process of a warehouse is very different from that of a fulfillment center. Although, both the warehouse and a fulfillment center both are a party of the supply chain process. However, both fulfill different functions and purposes of the supply chain fulfillment for an organization. Warehousing plays an important role in fulfilling the storage process of the supply chain. Whereas, a fulfillment center includes all the stages of the entire order fulfillment process. A warehouse stores products to use later, while fulfillment centers store products for a short duration of time, pick and pack them and ensure that they are efficiently delivered to the customers.

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