Designing and implementing a warehouse distribution solution that allows you to decrease inventory requirements, increase fulfillment rates, and rapidly respond to your customers’ demands is crucial and should be your main goal when making a decision to hire a third party logistics company. Therefore, choosing the right company offering the services you truly need is essential. One that works with customers of all sizes and has the ability to expand and reduce space and resources to adjust to your specifications and seasonal demands.
Key Services to look for:
* Consolidation and deconsolidation services
* Transloading and high velocity cross docking
* Retail store fulfillment and replenishment
* Comprehensive pick and pack capabilities
* Inventory management, reporting and visibility
* Performance and process engineering
The benefits of hiring a third-party logistics provider are endless. They partner with clients to develop and implement supply chain solutions to accurately distribute products to your customers. Warehouses store a portion of the seasonal inventories and also provide forward supply points. A control model determines the required inventory at each warehouse for specified protection against an out-of-stock situation. There are also procedures for allocating inventories in excess of those needed for immediate sales requirements among the available storage points to minimize warehousing cost.
Top distribution companies operate large facilities throughout the U.S. and support numerous clients in all areas of marketing, including catalogs, e-commerce and literature fulfillment. They search out and offer the most cost effective methods to receive, fulfill and ship orders, focusing their abilities and efforts on maximizing our efficiencies within three fulfillment channels: Retail Distribution, Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment, and Business-to-Business Distribution.
Retail Distribution
Partnering with manufacturers and marketers, offering a full line of services to accurately and timely move client’s products to their retail customers. Able to manage, fulfill and ship large distribution center orders as well as make smaller shipments at the store level.
Direct to-Consumer
Able to process order flow to ship thousands of orders on a daily basis direct to the consumer, offering distribution services and fulfillment solutions to e-Commerce, catalog and direct response companies large and small.
Trade Fulfillment
Distribution solutions for clients who distribute supplies, promotional items, or marketing materials (POS) to multiple business locations within their own company or to other businesses. If your business model involves one or more of the above fulfillment channels, let your choice of distribution company to develop and propose a solution suited to your specific needs. The one that will provide complete visibility of your goods, from pick-up to delivery, enhancing your ability to monitor and measure the value we provide.