Business challenge:
A manufacturer of a fabric dumpster bag needed a partner who could receive its product in bulk via floor loaded ocean containers from overseas, create kits, and distribute them to big box home improvement stores.
ASW’s solution:
ASW receives and inventories product in bulk, kits orders, and creates store displays. Kits and store displays are shipped to big box home improvement stores, as well as Amazon.
Execution:
ASW unloads, palletizes, inventories, and warehouses bulk packages of bags. When orders are received, a team repacks bags into kits, which consist of multiple bags and print collateral with instructions for dumpster pickup. The team also builds store displays.
ASW’s competitive advantage:
- 3PL with decades of experience handling local, regional, national, and international distribution
- Expertise in both B2B and B2C order fulfillment
- Flexibility to meet customer's unique needs
- Custom tiered pricing structure that provides discounts based on number of orders
- Dedicated account representative
- Secure shared facility with the space required to store large pallets
- Strategic location in NE Ohio allowing for shorter shipping time, on average, across the U.S.
- Robust WMS with built-in inventory management that easily interfaces with other systems
- Proficiency in handling reverse logistics for multiple clients
- Same-day shipping
Key Benefits:
- Cost savings and increased efficiency
- Full-service operation, allowing for client to use one partner to handle U.S. distribution
- Handles B2B order fulfillment to retailers like Walmart
- Handles B2C fulfillment of orders placed via ecommerce platform
- Secure facility to receive and store large pallets
- Each, case, and pallet picking
- Greater efficiency and lower costs
- Returns management