Get Close to Your Customers Wherever They Are, and Whenever They Need You!

Our extensive Logistics Infrastructure enables us to provide you with the nationwide reach and capabilities that you need to achieve a local presence in virtually any market without making direct investments in your own infrastructure.

National logisitics company providing over 200 distribution centers, 70 forward stocking locations and 450 owned, co-located and agent partner logistics locations. With Over 450 Locations between our Agent Partners and directly owned facilities, 200 Distribution Centers and 70 Forward Stocking Locations; our clients can move materials from Anywhere in the US to Anywhere in the US, at Anytime; or establish close to customer stocking and re-supply services.

Our locations are strategically located to minimize costs and time to market. As a non asset based Logistics Group we can add centers as your geographical requirements change.

Our Distribution Centers have true warehouse capabilities:

Secure Access and Storage
Dock Height
Fork Lifts, Pallets and Racks
Climate Control

In addition we can provide Cold Storage Locations.

Our network of company owned offices, Agents, Distribution Centers and Forward Stocking Locations provides you one stop shopping for your Nationwide Logistics needs.

For more information and a no obligation consultation please Contact Us directly, or submit a Request for Consultation form.

Logistics Outsourcing

Outsourcing the Supply Chain

The emergence of 3PL's and 4PL's is one sector of the broader "outsourcing" trend. Our interviews suggested that firms pursue outsourcing based on two key principles:

The desire to focus scarce corporate resources on core functions such as production or marketing and outsource secondary functions to specialty firms, or
The perceived lack of in-house logistics or information technology skill to develop and maintain complex logistics networks, and the availability of these capabilities in the marketplace. In fact, logistics outsourcing is on the leading edge for several of the firms we spoke with.

The 1997 Global Supply Chain Study, developed by KPMG Consulting and the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University found that among 451 companies [located in 24 countries across eight industry segments], 54 percent had outsourced transportation services, while about 30 percent had outsourced other supply-chain functions, including manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics information systems[x]. Third and 4th party Logistics companies account for nearly all of this outsourced activity[xi].
Responding to these customer programs, 3rd and 4th party logistics companies often build themselves around information systems platforms that permit greater pipeline visibility and lower transaction costs than most shippers can attain by themselves. By leveraging these coordination skills, the 3PL's and 4PL's are hoping to make the business profitable. But profits have been elusive. A Northeastern University survey of 3rd party CEO's indicates that a majority believes that the industry is only marginally profitable, and that the difficulty and expense of implementing new contracts will make profitability difficult to sustain[xii].
Schneider questions the ability of integrators to bring value. They perceive heavy administrative costs in conducting the role effectively, and question whether the cost of technology may exceed the benefits for the customer. Consequently, such winners as may emerge among integrators will be those with the biggest pockets.

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