3PL Case Study • Geiger

When One Shipment Needs to Go Twenty Places at Once

How Stewardship helped a national promotional products company solve a last-minute distribution problem — on time and on budget.

“I was able to go to Rusty as a trusted partner with a problem, and he was able to work with me to come up with a solution that not only fit our client’s budget, but also fit the timeline that we needed. Both were really important to make the project happen.”

— Jay Shaw, Geiger

The Challenge

Jay Shaw has been in the promotional products business long enough to know when a logistics problem is about to become a client problem. When a bulk import shipment needed to reach roughly 20 different addresses within days, he needed a solution quickly and with no room for error.

Jay’s company, Geiger, one of the top promotional products companies in the country, was importing a product that, due to the way international freight is structured, had to arrive at a single location. However, his client needed it distributed to approximately 20 separate addresses, each with a specific quantity.

All the alternative options Jay looked at had drawbacks:

• Routing through other established distribution points wasn’t fast enough

• Breaking up the shipment at port and shipping directly would have been too costly — each box moving through the FedEx system individually

• Receiving everything at the client’s office and personally handling redistribution wasn’t realistic

He needed someone who could receive the shipment, break it down accurately, and get it back out the door fast.

The Solution

Jay reached out to our team at Stewardship. We worked through the logistics problem alongside him and put together a plan that none of his other options could match.

We received the bulk shipment, broke it into the correct quantities for each destination, and caught a numbering discrepancy along the way before it could become a problem. 

Then, instead of routing everything back through UPS at a per-box rate, we connected with a local delivery partner who could handle the Memphis-area distribution directly. That one decision alone saved Jay’s client a significant amount of money.

The shipment arrived at Stewardship on a Monday. Everything was distributed and delivered to the 20 different addresses by the end of the same week.

The Results

✓ Delivered to ~20 locations on time, with no errors

✓ A numbering error was caught and corrected before shipping

✓ Cost came in at an estimated 2–3x less than any alternative Jay had considered

✓ Clear communcation throughout — no guesswork or surprises

Your logistics challenges probably look different than Jay’s. But the need is the same: a partner who can think through the challenge you’re trying to solve with you and get it right.

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