3PL SERVICES
Delivering a range of 3rd Party Logistics Services including Picking & Packing, Receiving & Putaway, Outbound Staging & Loading Operations.
The Right Partnership
Looking to free up capital, get a faster start in a key market, improve customer service or gain cost savings? Partner with the 3PL provider that employs supply chain efficiency strategies designed to deliver cost savings, continuous improvement, supply chain and network changes to meet your company objectives. As you assess the possibilities in your supply chain for more efficiencies and expansion, seeking a 3PL for a true partnership can create teamwork and transparency that works harmoniously towards your strategic business goals.
When looking for a 3PL partner, look for experience and skill. Just as you would look at recruiting an employee, look for that “cultural fit.” Most 3PLs have all the tools and services you need, but if the people don’t interact well, it’s not going to be an effective partnership. With Level Four Logistics you have a partner with the resources to offer the kind of analytical work that can help your company better understand how to improve the supply chain.
Picking and Packing
As the consumer and retail markets continue to grow, your company will need pick and pack services and shipping for B2B, B2C and E-commerce fulfillment.
But picking and packing represent the largest labor cost for any supplier. It also requires accuracy. Get this wrong and not only is your supply chain damaged, so is customer satisfaction.
Level Four Logistics gathers considerable data from your picking operations to determine if a zone picking, single-order, multi-order picking, or a batch picking methodology fits with your specific business.
By defining each item movement as a transaction, the richness of the data helps to shape the workflows in the DC, allowing for the maximum process efficiency.
Order pickers spend about 60 percent of their time walking product or moving product around. Within the Level Four Logistics DC workers rely on mobile technology, conveyance and other automated solution to reduce delays.
Receiving & Putaway
You need a 3PL partner who can optimize costs and remove inefficiencies or bottlenecks.
Level Four Logistics world-class receiving and put away systems minimizes the number of handling steps throughout the entire process. Make a mistake in the receiving area, and it can have a 10-fold effect on the rest of the supply chain.
All resources are proactively scheduled. Each has a minimum cost flow path. Delays between receiving and putaway are minimized with preassigned locations. Putaway and retrieval are combined for maximum labor use.
A Quality control group monitors putaway accuracy – just like they do picking accuracy, shipping accuracy, and inventory accuracy.
Outbound Staging & Loading
Just like the receiving process, if the outbound process is not optimal, deliveries may arrive incomplete, be late, or sent to the wrong customer.
Level Four Logistics outbound DC operations execute two independent processes: selection and loading. Some 3PL providers use a 3rd process, staging, in the middle. Selectors pick cases onto pallets (or carts, or other containers) and stage product on the dock. Later, a smaller number of loaders move product from the dock into the trailer.
However, with extensive mathematical models Logistic6 assigns work in advance, with minimal risk of falling behind and risking late dispatches. As a supply chain efficiency strategy, bypassing staging, the number of touch points is reduced, and each step is just-in-time. Compressing response times and reducing your labor costs are key metrics for Level Four Logistics.
Creating efficient and effective warehousing and distribution systems is an extremely important initiative that is vital to supply chain management and the global economy.
When choosing a 3PL partner, ensure you have online, real time reporting to deliver the right products to the right places at the right times.