Warehousing & Distribution
Warehousing & Distribution
Today's logistics operations are hybridizing and diversifying. NLN's warehousing and distribution center is housed within a modern, spacious 30,000 square-foot modern facility built to keep up with the times — and your shipping schedules. Whether you're planning ahead or planning for now, we're committed to designing scalable, flexible transportation solutions that work for you. By combining the functionality of a warehouse, transfer center, and distribution facility,
NLN is here to serve you at any stage of your supply chain journey.
Beginning: Practice better inventory management by making use of our facility's warehousing and distribution capabilities. We'll store your goods until they're ready to ship.
Middle: In much the same fashion as a transfer center, we perform cross-docking and transloading at our facility, maintaining the fluid movement of goods in between shipment and delivery.
End: We're ready when you're ready. NLN's extensive and trustworthy partner network assures your product gets to its destination on time and intact.
Our Warehousing and Distribution Capabilities
Small package warehousing
Maintain a buffer inventory and avoid supply chain disruptions with our small package warehousing capabilities. Our extensive in-house carrier and broker system allows for release and delivery of merchandise on demand.
Cross-docking
In need of a quick turnaround? Cross-docking — a common practice of LTL shipping — minimizes or eliminates warehousing costs by transferring inventory directly from one or more inbound trucks into one or more outbound trucks. Used to both consolidate and deconsolidate shipments, cross-docking is a mainstay of hub-and-spoke distribution models.
Transloading
When a shipment cannot make it all the way from Point A to Point B in the same fashion (such as in a cargo container carried via ocean freight), transloading reconfigures it so it is compatible with the type and size of vehicle that ultimately can — for instance, transferring to a pallet that can fit in a semi-trailer.
