Avoid Retail Chargebacks Like The Plague
Retail Chargebacks – A Growing Problem
In todays’ retail environment, financial pressures on the vendor community to deliver supply chain efficiency are at an all-time high. Retailers are applying fines and chargebacks at a painful rate. The ability to stay current in handling these deductions can be a never-ending battle – however it doesn’t need to be.
Large and small retailers have processes in place to track vendor compliance against a wide range of criteria including:… Click the link for… Continue reading
Don’t talk about it, be about it. Social media & your Ops team.
As an operations guy in a global 3PL services company, I was never involved in the sales process until the end tail-end. But, one thing I came to understand, if for no other reason than survival, was once a potential customer was brought into my 3PL warehouse for a tour, it was time for my team and I to make sure our Sales Guy closes the deal and keeps us all gainfully employed.
My understanding of how my role needed to evolve happened in… Continue reading
Networking Via Your 3PL Warehouse Services Provider
One of the most important decision a company can make is outsourcing part or all of it’s warehousing, order fulfillment & reverse logistics activities. Sure, when you outsource you expect manpower cost savings, elimination of HR & workers comp liabilities, improved performance and near-perfect inventory accuracy & visibility. But there’s another tremendous benefit to outsourcing which may differentiate many 3PL providers you are considering working with.
Networking!
Networking is about making connections and building enduring, mutually beneficial relationships. We… Continue reading
3PL Order Fulfillment & Reverse Logistics For Entrepreneurs
Over the past two years the fastest growing segment of our business, which has fortunately been our focus, have been start-up companies and entrepreneurs looking for 3rd party logistics services. As an entrepreneur myself, I saw a significant gap in the 3PL industry for this market segment. Especially since I’ve been providing San Francisco Bay Area 3rd party logistics services for over 15 years and have seen a large number of entrepreneurs turned away. It seems insane given that I’m based here in… Continue reading
Visit Us To See San Francisco Bay Area 3PL Warehouse Pricing
FAQ: How Much Do 3PL Services Cost or to be more blunt, how much do 3PL’s charge?
I’ve visited alot of 3rd party logistics websites to see what my competition is doing and what I recently discovered is what they are not doing!
3PL companies are not telling you how much their services will cost you until you make contact with them. Well, I’m changing that, especially for potential customers who are looking for aSan Francisco Bay Area 3PL services… Continue reading
Save Money & Eliminate Risk Through Our Bay Area 3rd Party Warehouse
When companies contemplate outsourcing their warehousing and order fuflillment activities to a 3PL services provider, they immediately focus on the core functions of their distribution center such as receiving and shipping activities to see if they can find a less expensive alternative.
Usually, they find that 3rd party logistics service providers can perform these tasks more efficiently, thus cheaper. However, there may be more important reasons for companies to outsource rather than simply cost savings on manpower and storage facilities.… Continue reading