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Your Role

3PL Warehouse Manager

3PL Warehouse Director

3PL Vice President Operations

3PL Network Manager

3PL Industrial Engineer

3PL Continuous Improvement Engineer

Customer Examples

  • Kenco Group
  • NFI
  • Suddath Logistics
  • Saddle creek Logistics
  • XPO Logistics
  • Ryder Logistics
  • DHL Supply Chain
  • CEVA Logistics
  • Kane is Able Logistics
  • Berner Foods 3PL
  • You could set up at the Site level or could set up at the Customer Account level

Your Business

  • 3PL business – your core competence is moving products – you can move products as pallets, as parcel boxes as shipments, as loads – it is all about moving products for other businesses, typically manufacturers or vendors that source product from the far east – because everyone wants to do what they are good at – so as a manufacturer I am good at manufacturing, so I want to find the best 3PL and outsource all my logistics, distribution, delivery, order fulfillment everything to the best in business, so I can do what I do best.
  • An OEM or a Name brand vendor manufacturer is coming to you because they could go ahead and buy 1000 boxes they need to buy, rent the equipment that is needed, get the warehouse space rented out and they can do all by themselves, but if they come to you, they can take advantage of the economies of scale and the logistics expertise you bring to the table, so essentially by coming to you 3PL, they can reduce the cost, so as a 3PL Warehouse Manager you are expected to deliver on that promise, if you cannot deliver on that lower cost, then you lose that business, typically that happens if you don’t know how to run that business, how to handle all the logistical requirements in smooth fashion at a lower cost.
  • 3PL business is an operations intensive business – in order to be successful in this business you have to be really good in operations, which means your operations systems have to be great, your processes have to be great, your people have to be great, the steps you are performing to complete a function, for example picking, assembly, packing, whatever it may be, you have to be very lean, very efficient, if you are not you will lose big dollars, when you lose dollars, it directly impacts your bottom line, your profitability drops, even if your top line is growing, if you lose money you are not driving towards your profits, your EBITDA is falling, which is a very bad spot to be in, then your stock price goes down, your investors are upset, wall street rates you negative, all kinds of crap you got to deal with now,
  • Often the 3PLs own both warehouses and transportation infrastructure and or they have a lot of partnerships in the Supply Chain Community.
  • 3PLs have warehouses that are dedicated to customers or multi-client sites, where there are multiple customers in one single facility.
  • Also, from a systems perspective, they follow two models
    1. Tightly coupled model – the 3PLs systems are integrated with the customers Systems – that means systems are talking to each other.
    2. The Loosely coupled model – there is no integration – usually the 3PL personnel log on to the customers systems are operate those systems.
  • As a 3PL warehouse manager, you are responsible for the following.
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