Retail Fulfillment Services
Having your products distributed and sold by top retailers, like Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Ulta and smaller retail companies, can help your business and your brand name scale rapidly. However, securing contracts with top retail businesses is only the beginning of your journey into retail. To ensure that the experience matches the expectations of all stakeholders, including the end customer, you need an airtight retail fulfillment service plan.
Retail fulfillment involves a wide range of complex and often retailer-specific steps. Unless you have the infrastructure and internal team members to support your retail strategy, you may prefer to partner with a retail third-party logistics (3PL) leader like Best Way Distribution.
Our deep experience in the retail fulfillment and warehousing services ecosystem allows you to effectively manage all the aspects of selling your products to and through boutique, midsized, and enterprise-level retailers.
Helping You Navigate Retail Fulfillment
Working with a retailer to get your products to market is different from selling items directly to consumers (DTC). Instead of simply shipping an item from a warehouse to a person’s address, you must follow more complicated (and often nonnegotiable) guidelines to put your product in the public’s hands.
At Best Way Distribution, we already have systems in place to assist you in dealing with the many realities that come with retail fulfillment. Here’s how we can help you:
Ample Warehouse Storage and Ideal Location
Our enormous 750,000-square-foot facility in the heart of the American Midwest features four stories and a large paved parking area. With a secure warehouse of this size, we can handle the needs of almost any company engaged in retail fulfillment solutions. We are also FDA-approved and offer climate-controlled spaces to store items that require a temperature-moderated environment.
Our size and centralized geographic location allow us to provide B2B fulfillment from Kansas City to all parts of the United States and beyond. Logistically, we are well-suited to get your product anywhere. Plus, you can scale up or down if you have stock fluctuations.
Software for Retail Warehousing
Retailers, especially larger ones, usually expect that you will have some kind of electronic data interchange (EDI) system in place. An EDI makes transferring information about your product to the retailer simpler. However, you may not be familiar with using an EDI. The retail fulfillment and warehousing professionals at Best Way Distribution are.
By leveraging our existing EDI and other real-time digital monitoring and data-gathering software, you can greatly reduce your investment in the systems needed to properly engage in retail fulfillment. Since you will have access to features of our system, you will be able to better manage your inventory and run reports to influence your next steps.
Retailer-Specific Routing Guides
Most of the larger retailers that you work with will present you with a routing guide. This document can be extensive, as it outlines exactly how the retailer expects you to deliver products to them. For instance, a routing guide will typically include delivery time frames, pallet instructions, information about labels and containers and more details.
Since you may be working with more than one retailer, you may end up with numerous routing guides. As part of our retail 3PL services, our team will maintain all your routing guides and help you stay compliant with your retailers. This is a critical step because it helps you avoid penalties, fines and chargebacks. Best Way Distribution works with many retailers and may even be familiar with the routing guide for your retail partners.
Inventory Monitoring and Management
You may need additional services like picking and packing or case level fulfillment. Rather than having to use a separate company to fulfill those services, you can rely on Best Way Distribution. Our retail fulfillment and warehousing services are comprehensive in scope. As a result, you can reduce your reliance on other providers.
From wrapping and bagging to labeling and storing, our team will make sure your inventory is properly secured and ready for transit. If you have unique kitting, packing or other fulfillment needs, feel free to share them. Our goal is to provide you with tailored retail warehousing and fulfillment services.
Flexible Fulfillment and Retail Warehousing Services
It can be challenging to predict your fulfillment and warehousing needs from quarter to quarter, especially if you are in a growth mode. Best Way Distribution will work with you to make sure that you get the right fulfillment and retail warehousing solutions for your current situation. We offer flexible contracts that can be month-to-month or long-term agreements to meet the clients needs. Additionally, we can offer month-to-month parking arrangements in our video camera-surveilled lot.
As soon as you know that your retail storage fulfillment needs have changed or will change, get in touch. We may be able to suggest new ways to competitively size up or size down within the retail fulfillment space.
Reliable and Simple Management Systems
You want to reduce the number of returns as much as you can. Partnering with a 3PL provider with a track record of successful retail fulfillment will help. That said, when returns and chargebacks happen, Best Way Distribution has the capacity to handle all your reverse logistics effortlessly and cost-effectively.
Ultimately, though, our goal is for you to reduce your returns by following routing guides and other fulfillment processes. That way, you can prevent costly chargebacks and continue expanding your product line exposure across multiple retailers or retail locations.
Choose Best Way Distribution as Your Retail 3PL Partner
With features like an existing EDI system, massive ambient and temperature-controlled warehousing space, start-to-finish handling and customized fulfillment, a centralized location, familiarity with routing guides and a terrific service record, we aim to be the only 3PL provider you will ever need. Why live with shipping headaches when you can make them go away just by getting in touch with Best Way Distribution for retail storage fulfillment in Kansas City?
Still have questions about our retail fulfillment services or other types of fulfillment solutions? Talk to our team by submitting a question or requesting a quote.