What should you expect from your 3PL’s communication? Most people don’t know the answer until something goes wrong. You send an email and wait. You call and leave a message. You start to wonder if anyone’s paying attention to your inventory at all....
Finding the right 3PL is about finding the one that’s built for how your business operates. Here at Stewardship Warehousing & Logistics, we’re not the right fit for every business, and every business isn’t the right fit for us. In this article, my goal...
Handing your inventory over to someone else requires that you trust a warehouse full of people you’ve never met to handle product you’ve spent money, time, and energy getting right. So the question that keeps a lot of shippers up at night isn’t...
When shippers evaluate a 3PL, “how fast are you?” is one of the questions they ask. It’s also one of the hardest to answer with a single number, because speed isn’t really one thing. It’s three separate questions stacked on top of each...
Every operations manager dreads the call that says your shipment isn’t coming. Maybe a supplier got hit by a storm. Maybe a freight carrier raised rates overnight, and your logistics budget just blew up. Maybe a new round of tariffs changed the math on...
If you’ve never outsourced your warehousing and fulfillment before, the process of finding the right partner can feel a little overwhelming. There are a lot of 3PL providers out there, the pricing isn’t always straightforward, and it’s not always...
