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Storage, picking, and the freight on both ends.

Storage, picking and packing through partner facilities, with the inbound and outbound freight handled by us.

The split

What this covers

Inbound freight received, counted and put away. Inventory racked or floor-stacked, by pallet or by SKU. Orders picked to the piece, the carton or the pallet. Outbound by parcel, LTL or truckload. Returns received, inspected and dispositioned. And counts you can actually reconcile.

The warehousing page covers freight moving through: transload, cross-dock and drop trailers. This page is inventory sitting still and orders going out.

The honest version

We do not own the buildings. We arrange the space and the labor at partner facilities and handle the freight in and out. What that gets you is one contact for the warehouse and the trucking, instead of two vendors pointing at each other when the inventory does not reconcile or a truck turns up unannounced.

What it does not get you is our own warehouse management system, or a building we can walk you through at an hour of notice. If you need a dedicated operation running your systems, you want a dedicated 3PL, and we will tell you so rather than take the work.

Receiving and put-away

Inbound freight is received against your ASN or your packing list, counted, and put away to a location. Discrepancies get reported the day they are found rather than at the end of the month, because that is when you can still do something about them.

Storage

Racked or floor-stacked, priced by pallet position or by square foot depending on the facility and the profile. Temperature-controlled and hazmat storage exist, but they are facility-specific, so ask before you assume.

Inventory reporting

On-hand counts, receipts, shipments and cycle counts, in a format you can reconcile against your own system. We do not run a portal you can log into. You get the report and a person who will answer the phone about it.

Pick and pack

Orders picked to the piece, the carton or the pallet, packed and staged for outbound. Parcel, LTL or full truckload, whichever the order profile calls for. Priced per order and per line rather than as one flat number, because those are the two things that actually drive the labor.

Returns

Returns received, inspected against your disposition rules, and either put back to sellable stock, sent for rework, or scrapped. Whichever it is, you get told. There is more on how that gets set up on the reverse logistics page.

Who this fits

Overflow

Your main DC is full and you need somewhere to put freight for three months. This is the most common reason people call.

A new market

You want inventory closer to a region before you commit to a lease. Partner space lets you test the geography without signing for five years of it.

Retail replenishment

Inventory staged near the receiving DC so you can hit a tight appointment window instead of hoping the linehaul cooperates.

Seasonal peak

Volume you do not want to carry space for the other nine months of the year.

Who this does not fit

High-velocity ecommerce that needs same-day pick and ship at scale, or anything needing deep systems integration. Those need a dedicated provider, and we will say so.

What we need to quote

SKU count, pallet or unit volume, inbound and outbound cadence, the order profile in pallets, cartons or pieces, any special handling, and how long you need it for.

Warehousing

Transload, cross-dock and drop trailer programs. Freight moving through rather than sitting still. Read about warehousing.

Reverse logistics

Returns, rework and disposition, set up as a process rather than handled case by case. Read about reverse logistics.

3PL

When the storage, the trucking and the reporting are one arrangement with one set of numbers. Read about 3PL.

FAQ

Common questions
about warehouse and fulfillment

The questions that come up most, answered straight.

Pick and pack means selecting individual items from stored inventory according to an order, packing them and shipping them out, as opposed to moving full pallets. It is how ecommerce and retail replenishment orders get filled from a warehouse.
No. We arrange space and labor at partner facilities and handle the freight in and out. You get one contact for both instead of managing a warehouse vendor and a trucking vendor separately. We say it plainly because you should know who is holding your inventory.
Warehousing is storing freight. Fulfillment is picking, packing and shipping orders out of that stored inventory. Warehousing answers where it sits. Fulfillment answers how it leaves.
Generally as three separate things: a receiving charge on the way in, a storage charge per pallet position or per square foot per month, and a pick-and-pack charge per order plus per line. Anyone quoting you one blended number is averaging something, and it is worth asking what.
No. The facility runs its own system and we give you the reporting out of it: on-hand, receipts, shipments and cycle counts, in a format you can reconcile. If a live portal you control is a requirement, you want a dedicated 3PL rather than this arrangement.
SKU count, pallet or unit volume, how often freight comes in and goes out, the order profile in pallets, cartons or pieces, any special handling such as temperature or hazmat, and how long you need the space for.

Need space and someone to ship out of it?

SKU count, volume, order profile, and how long. We will price it. Or call 1-800-632-1760.

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