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First-Class Fulfillment Logistics Is One of Our Specialties

There’s something comforting about knowing a task is going to be done and done correctly. That professional job is especially important when your customer’s satisfaction and your reputation are on the line, that is, if you can deliver. And you can in Minneapolis, MN, with the best plan and partner in fulfillment logistics.

Inventory Control

At Strategic Warehousing, we know all about the challenge of inventory control and getting products into the hands of your customers. As a third-party logistics (3PL) company, we can help you make a bold step toward greater growth in the new year by letting us worry about handling your expanding list of orders and related needs.

Warehouse and Storage Facilities

Whether you’re into ecommerce or a more traditional brick-and-mortar business, why worry about the overhead of a warehouse and storage facilities when proper fulfillment logistics can solve several headaches and free you up to worry about more important issues.

Allow Strategic Warehousing to handle your inventory, process orders, and ensure items are shipped on time to your growing list of customers. Among several services, we offer picking and packing, plus delivery with the carrier that best fits your budget or needs.

Warehouse Management

Excellent warehouse management software is crucial for outstanding order fulfillment, and we feature Logimax. This real-time inventory control system allows you to keep a good handle on the need for storage space, and it helps delivery a fast turnaround, no matter what the product. The benefits for you include more efficiency, better workflow, and of course, greater savings.

Fulfillment Logistics

Nearly any aspect of the fulfillment logistics services we offer is customizable to fit your requirements for need and scale. For more than 30 years now, Strategic Warehousing has been the region’s distribution warehouse and fulfillment logistics leader. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service is among the many attributes that set us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920. We’re ready to help your business save money in Minneapolis, MN, or anywhere across the region.

 

 

 

Profitable Freight Consolidation Requires Strategic Thinking

Life would be so much easier if the world were filled with full truckloads of cargo headed to their destinations. Unfortunately, that’s not reality, and the extra number of big rigs on the road to get the job done might be a bit of a traffic nightmare. That’s why freight consolidation isn’t just a buzz word among shippers in St. Paul and a good portion of the Upper Midwest; it’s how we save you time and money. At Strategic Warehousing, we know how to help you make the most of your shipping dollar, whether you’re ready to move a full truck load (FTL) or attempting to meet a deadline with substantially less than truck load (LTL).

 Eliminating Waste Cuts Costs and Expense

We believe the vital key is organization and planning. Our best practices freight consolidation system is all about creating efficiencies in FTL and LTL shipments. Our goal is to eliminate waste and to cut costs.

The Strategic Warehousing approach is a daily quest for opportunity. We look for ways to utilize cross docking to save you space, time, and of course, money. It can include picking individual cases, shrink wrapping them, and turning them around quickly to create room for even more goods on every truck.

 Our Expertise is the Cure for Shipping Headaches

Some folks shy away from going with an LTL shipment due to the complexity and the potential for additional headaches created by attempting to coordinate a single load. We understand and it’s why our specialists are ready to sit down with you and help you understand your options, no matter your business or industry.

Personalized and Responsive Service Dedicated to Your Specific Needs

Nearly any aspect of the services we offer are customizable to fit your requirements for logistics and scale. For more than 30 years, Strategic Warehousing has been the region’s distribution warehouse and logistics leader. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service is among the many attributes that set us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920. We’re ready to help companies save money in St. Paul and across the region.

 

Are Your Distribution Warehouse Solutions Ready for Holiday Crush?

The holiday ordering crush created by COVID-19 took more than a few retailers by surprise last year. While the pandemic didn’t start the ecommerce boom, much of the recent demand can be linked to folks who decided to do their spending online rather than take a health risk with in-store shopping. If this trend continues in Minneapolis, MN, and elsewhere, will your distribution warehouse solution be able to keep up or will you need an even more capable partner?

 

Strategic Warehousing has the flexibility to handle high demand, whether the orders needed are headed to retail locations or are to be shipped directly to customers in separate packages.

 

We’ve always been more than a group of warehouses strategically located to get your valuables to locations in the Twin Cities or many miles beyond the metro. Servicing our customers is a priority, which is why we’ve developed some highly sought-after skills over the years: ranging from acting as a distribution warehouse to ensuring your orders are shipped as efficiently as possible to strategic planning.

 

At Strategic Warehousing, we’re embracing the value of technology as we help you meet the demand for faster delivery and the right amount of inventory to satisfy those needs. We are guided by a state-of-the-art, proprietary warehouse management system called Logimation. It offers real-time inventory and shipment data, and when combined with our Smart Storage methods, allows us to provide accurate and cost-friendly logistics services for every customer’s need. There’s no need to guess when you can log into our secure customer data dashboard from work, home, or the road. You’ll get an instant overview or detailed report of your company’s inventory, shipping, and project needs.

 

We also haven’t forgotten that one of the fastest growing ecommerce sectors is grocery products. A rise in online grocery demand and fewer people eating out is sure to continue to boost the demand for food-grade warehousing solutions. We’re ready to meet your needs.
Just about any aspect of the services we offer is customizable to fit your requirements for logistics and scale. After more than 30 years, Strategic Warehousing is the region’s distribution warehouse and logistics leader. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920. We’re happy to consult with companies in the Minneapolis, MN, area and the region.

 

 

 

Let Location and Excellence Work to Your Warehousing Logistics Advantage

Right in the metro and right on the money just might be the best way to describe the many advantages of Strategic Warehousing, which serves St. Paul, MN, and the greater upper Midwest. When your business needs storage space, or maybe warehousing and logistics expertise—or all of those services and a whole lot more—then we’re ready to grow right along with you.

Warehousing

It certainly doesn’t hurt that we feature newly updated, state-of-the art warehousing facilities in locations that work to your advantage, no matter where you do business in the Twin Cities. We also have you covered, no matter what your item is. From volume to bulk to fully packaged and food-grade storage capabilities, we have available warehousing space and services to fit your product and your needs—just ask us.

Warehousing and Logistics

While these days just about anybody can build a big box warehouse near a major highway, the real test is how to handle what’s inside. Strategic Warehousing manages what’s inside in ways that will matter most to your business, and of course, result in satisfied customers.

Keeping track of all your important items and knowing where they are at any given time could be quite a headache for the average business, but our warehouse management system is not average.

At Strategic Warehousing, we use the Logimax inventory control system that implements cutting-edge technology for management and logistics. It allows you and your business to log into an online portal, so no matter where you are, you can view your firm’s inventory and shipping details from an iPad or even a smartphone.

A good warehouse management plan means knowing just how much product you have in real time. Logimax comes with a rock-solid tracking chain whose accuracy helps avoid losses. It also pays for itself by allowing you to do your job faster and by increasing the number of happy customers.

Strategic Warehousing is also impressed with how well Logimax works with other business systems. You’ll see that it saves you money because you won’t have to spend more cash replacing logistics software or take extra time to retrain your workers in the new software.

Just about any aspect of the warehousing services we offer is customizable to fit your warehousing and logistics needs and scale. After more than 30 years in the business, Strategic Warehousing is the region’s warehousing and logistics leader. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service sets us apart from other companies. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920. We’re happy to consult with all businesses in and around the St. Paul, MN, area.

 

 

 

 

Why Ask Why When There Are So Many Benefits to Using Our EDI Capabilities?

When most folks listen to talk of infrastructure these days, they typically understand the benefit of rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges. Not only will such improvements ensure we get where we want to go, they will make it a much easier and safer journey as well. While the numbers 35, 94, and 494 are household names of interstates that crisscross Minneapolis, MN, maybe it’s time we all added one more roadway: We’ll call it Interstate Electronic Data Interchange (I-EDI).

While I-EDI doesn’t follow any route on a map, this information highway could have big benefits for your business and its future success.

As Minnesota and the Midwest’s leading warehouse provider, Strategic Warehousing has worked hard to live up to our name. We’ve focused on how to strategically serve you better, so you can do the same for your customers. Efficiency is the goal when it comes to warehousing and third-party logistics (3PL). Rather than fax machines and even snail mail, EDI capabilities offer an efficient way to share documents and be able to track the real-time movement of items across your supply chain.

Modem speeds are about the only limitation when it comes to electronic data and allowing us to help you keep an eye on the progress of what is important to your firm. Our EDI capabilities will allow you to automatically create and send invoices, payments, and valuable shipment information. At a minimum, EDI capabilities are a huge time savings without the need to have someone enter each piece of data.

EDI capabilities could be the way we help you lower your operating costs, avoid errors, and improve record accuracy. Most of us would be sold on the idea of better efficiency alone, but there’s more: This electronic interchange comes with security improvements, and you can boast about how environmentally friendly you are as you enjoy paperless updates.

Our leadership is the type you’ve come to expect from us over the years. It’s not enough for us to be your preferred storage facility; we’re ready to be your full-service 3PL provider. We can offer you custom pick-and-pack fulfillment, up-to-the-minute inventory management, and flexible warehousing options no matter what your valuable cargo turns out to be.

EDI capabilities are one of the many reasons why, after more than 30 years, Strategic Warehousing is Minneapolis and the region’s warehouse and logistics planning provider. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how adding EDI capabilities could be just the edge you need. You’ll find out why great business infrastructure includes Strategic Warehousing.

 

We’re Tuning In Excellent Shipment Tracking Info for You

Most managers would likely agree that it’s good to have an inventory of widgets, but they would also wonder how valuable that is if they can’t accurately find or track them while they’re in transit. While it’s a potential headache most of us would rather avoid, it’s a shipment tracking challenge that’s expertly being met in St. Paul, Minnesota by Strategic Warehousing.

 

At Strategic Warehousing, we’re using technology to tackle the problem of wayward widgets and the shipment tracking challenges they can pose. We use radio frequency (RF) barcode scanning to stay on top of those widgets that might be otherwise lost. It’s a simple, easy way to manage incoming and outgoing inventory and shipments.

 

The entire inventory process at Strategic Warehousing is guided by a state-of-the-art warehouse management system called LogiMax. It allows us to combine real-time inventory and shipment tracking data with our streamlined Smart Storage method. Along with all those advantages, LogiMax allows us to offer fool-proof and cost-efficient logistics services. While LogiMax is impressive all by itself, it has the added advantage of being able to integrate with other warehouse management systems.

 

RF scanning of inventory means greater efficiency and accuracy through the use of an electronic data interchange (EDI). It allows LogiMax to communicate with customers to ensure order accuracy, shipment tracking, and proper invoicing. Those advantages keep us and our clients competitive.

 

It’s one of the many reasons why, after more than 30 years, Strategic Warehousing is St. Paul’s and the Midwest’s leading warehouse and logistics planning provider. You’ll find our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we can offer shipment tracking on nearly everything from food-grade needs to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why having a great business strategy includes working with the professionals at Strategic Warehousing.

The Best Inventory Management System in Minneapolis, MN

In business there is no sugar-coating. There is the bottom line – your profit and loss.

If your 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) provider has not implemented the industries most trusted inventory management system your business will be prone to falter, and ultimately fail.

Strategic Warehousing in Minneapolis, MN can help your business grow and thrive, because our team excels at inventory management. Our management system is one of the primary reasons why we’re considered the Twin Cities’ leading 3PL provider.

 

Our inventory management system has many advantages, including:

 

  • First-In, First-Out (the FIFO approach) – your goods should be sold in the same chronological order they were purchased. Of course, this is vital if you’re shipping perishable items.
  • Low Turn Stock – If you have stock that hasn’t moved in over twelve months, you’re paying to take up space. Your inventory management system should identify this stock so you can decide the best way to sell it. Excess stock is a waste of space and capital.
  • Stock Inventory – track and know what your inventory is at all times, right from your desktop or phone, anytime. Your inventory is the lifeblood of your business. Being able to manage and order stock in real-time puts you one step ahead of the competition. We will help you do that.
  • Fine-tune your forecasting – You’re watching the market trends, economy, and trying to stay on top of the game. With our inventory management system, you’ll always have access and be apprised of where you stand with your inventory and what you need. We can also help you create the space to manage it.

 

We appreciate the opportunity to speak with you and detail our inventory management system and software, and how it’s designed to help your company succeed and grow. It all starts with your inventory.

Please call our Minneapolis, MN office today at (651) 405-8233 to speak with one of our experienced professionals. We’ll gladly listen to your questions, concerns, and needs, and share with you how Strategic Warehousing can help your business succeed and be more profitable.

Choose Strategic Warehousing in St. Paul, MN: Our Warehouse Management Sets Us Apart

When choosing a 3PL (Third-Party Logistics) in St. Paul, MN, choose Strategic Warehousing because our warehouse management sets us apart from our competitors. Likewise, by choosing us, your business will be a step ahead of your competitors.

Strategic Warehousing operates in many locations and offers both traditional  and climate-controlled warehousing. We’re also proud of the fact that we have begun to incorporate green technology into all of our sites, a strategy that ultimately saves you money. The green technology we have been installing is the industry’s leading technology, so we need a premier warehouse management system to match, and we have it!

The life blood of your business is your inventory, which is what puts money in your pockets and food on your table. Our warehouse management system will keep your business running smoothly and efficiently. Our role is to make your inventory management run seamlessly. Wholesalers and distributors will always know precisely what inventory is currently in the warehouse, exactly where it is, and the date it will need to be replenished at any hour of the day.

Our warehouse management system provides your business with visibility of your inventory, helping to manage supply chain fulfillment from warehouses to distribution centers to store shelves, and finally, to your customers’ hands.

The bottom line is that a warehouse management system should save you money. Strategic Warehousing in St. Paul, MN, helps your company grow and save money by providing:

  • Optimized space and lowering operating expenses.
  • Visibility of your inventory at all times, right from your desktop.
  • Cost cutting because our workers are more effective.
  • Optimized supply chain logistics.
  • Automated tracking.
  • Better customer service with our smooth shipping management.

And better customer service brings repeat customers, which means a better bottom line for your company.

Our warehouse management system also helps your company save money by going paperless, reducing mispick, rotating products, and helping you keep your inventory stocked so you aren’t paying for empty space.

We invite you to call our St. Paul, MN, office today at (651) 405-8233 for a detailed description of how our warehouse management system is going to save your company money and help you grow your business.

How Logistics Management Connects People, Products, and Services from Minneapolis, MN to the World

Let’s start with logistics. What is it? In the simplest definition, logistics is the movement of products from the point of origin to the consumer. Raw Material -> To Supplier -> To Manufacturer -> To Transport ->To Retailer -> To Consumer. Today, Logistics Management in motion looks like this: Warehousing -> Inventory -> Transportation -> Material Handling / Packaging -> Information Flow.

At Strategic Warehousing in Minneapolis, our logistics management team is the absolute best and why we’re the leading 3PL Provider in Minneapolis, MN and the greater Twin Cities region.

Our warehouses are climate-controlled, utilize green technology, and located near transportation depots. This efficient combination saves your company money, and that’s money in your pocket. Money for you to invest and grow your company. No matter how big your company gets, Strategic Warehousing can handle your logistics management requirements.

Logistics Management is the part of the supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the flow and storage of goods and services in order to meet your customer’s requirements. We’re here to help you succeed.

Logistics has grown into a large industry in its own right and is now a vital part of many business models. With the ever-growing complexities of logistics management, many companies enlist the power of 3PL to manage some, if not all, of their company’s logistical needs and functions.

Today’s technology and capability move at breakneck speed, and when selecting a 3PL company to handle your logistics management, you’ll want a company ahead of the curve. A company that leads and sets the industry standards, like Strategic Warehousing.

When a company gets left behind, money gets left behind. Don’t get left behind. Stay ahead of the curve and call our Minneapolis, MN office today at (651) 405-1920. We can help you discover how our logistics management can strategically and economically connect you, your product, and your services with people and companies all over the world.

Strategic Locations Makes Parcel Shipments More Cost Effective in St. Paul, MN

When it comes to parcel shipments, the key factors are speed and efficiency. Our strategically placed warehouses in St. Paul, MN and beyond help you achieve both of these. Learn more about how we help you quickly and safely get your parcel shipments from point A to point B.

 

How do parcel shipments work?

 

From our warehouses, individual parcels will be sent to another depot closer to the delivery location where it will be assigned to a driver according to their area of coverage. The driver then takes your parcel from the depot and delivers it to the recipient along the driver’s route. This is straightforward enough. So, how do we save you money at Strategic Warehousing with our parcel shipment services?

 

There is an old business adage: Time is money. If we as 3PL (third-party logistics) company are spending our money because your parcel shipments have further to travel to depots, that cost eventually trickles down to our clients. We don’t want that. That isn’t good for your business and it isn’t good for our business, which is why our business is called Strategic Warehousing.

 

For us, Strategic Warehousing means warehousing located as close as possible to shipyards, railroads, and trucking depots. Why is this important? Time is money, and the closer our warehouses are to these shipping services, the quicker we can get your product to them. Less time equals more money and savings to you.

 

We also save you money by being a company large enough so you can get part of your product out when you want. Some 3PL companies require you to wait until they have enough other parcels to ship. We’re ready to move product when you’re ready to ship product, and being ready makes money.

 

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