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What Good Communication With a 3PL Looks Like
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. Every 3PL...
Is Stewardship the Right 3PL Fit for Your Business?
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 is to...
What Happens When Your 3PL Loses Inventory (and What a Good Contract Should Say About It)
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 really "will my 3PL...
How Fast Should You Expect Your 3PL to Turn Around an Order?
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 other, and each one depends on...
Supply Chain Disruptions Happen. The Companies That Stay Running Have One Thing in Common.
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 everything you...
How to Find a Trustworthy Third-Party Logistics Provider. Start With These Warehousing Associations.
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 easy to know who you...
Picking a 3PL Location: Why Cheaper Freight Doesn’t Always Mean Lower Total Cost
When shippers start looking for a 3PL, the first instinct is usually to compare providers. Get three quotes. Look at the per-pallet rate. Pick the one that makes the most sense. That's a reasonable place to start, but it skips over a bigger question — and usually a...
Accessorial Fees Explained: The 3PL Charges Shippers Are Most Surprised By (and Why They Exist)
You signed with a 3PL. The quote looked clean. The first invoice arrives — and there are line items you've never heard of. If that's where you are right now, you're not alone. And before you start questioning whether you picked the wrong provider, I want to offer a...
Boutique vs. Enterprise 3PL: Which One Is Actually Right for Your Business?
If you're shopping for a 3PL partner, you're probably comparing more than one option. That's smart. And at some point in that process, you're going to notice that not all 3PLs are built the same. Some are massive, multi-location operations with hundreds of clients and...
What Is a Warehouse Management System (WMS) — and Why Should You Care?
If you're trusting a 3PL to store and ship your product, you're probably focused on things like pricing, location, and whether they can handle your volume. But there's one question shippers forget to ask until something goes wrong: how does this company actually track...
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