Did that e-commerce order you placed over the holidays arrive in two days as promised? If so, you can likely offer thanks to warehouse companies like Strategic Warehousing of St. Paul, MN.

The expectations of consumers are high and getting higher these days as they demand faster and more flexible service from online stores. Retailers are quickly getting the hint, and it means they’re looking for more warehouse space.

But they need something more; they need to be able to move their distribution and inventories on the fly. It requires some of the crucial attributes that set Strategic Warehousing apart from the guy down the street who merely has a little extra space.

Strategic has the ability to handle the demand for a “pop-up” distribution center, a short-term way to answer seasonal orders and longer-term demand.

As a third-party logistics provider (3PL), Strategic is ready to offer warehouse options that go far beyond what we call “smart storage.” Tracing and tracking, material handling, labeling, and of course web fulfillment are just a few of our services.

It’s the flexibility and proximity that make Strategic Warehousing such a valuable partner as you look to fulfill your orders. But there’s also real-time data management and inventory control that are sure to get your distribution plans up to speed as quickly as possible.

Amazon and their competitors have trained consumers to expect a shipment within two days, and retailers need to match it just to say in the game. While bigger firms want to only handle big clients, Strategic is ready to work with you, whether your needs involve a single pallet or several truckloads.

It’s a pay-for-what-you-use approach that allows your business to scale up when you need to pop-up to meet demand, or to do the opposite depending on how the new year is going and if sales are going as well as you had anticipated.

Let Strategic help you find a solution. We invite you to sit down with a specialist today and learn about our customized consulting packages suitable for any business and industry.

It’s why Strategic Warehousing is St. Paul and the Midwest’s leading warehouse and logistics planning provider. Our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly everything from food to bulk and packaged storage.

It’s no secret, warehousing is hot in 2019. How hot? Try red hot for e-commerce in the Minneapolis, MN, area and elsewhere in the country.

The so-called last mile between customers and their local store is being filled by the warehouse nearby. Of course, you know that, in many cases, your order isn’t coming from the traditional shopping center you used to depend on; now you order products online and they come direct from a warehouse to you.

Customer demand is making the investments Strategic Warehousing has been making for 70 years in the Twin Cities area even more valuable. There’s the fact that our business is conveniently located next to Interstates, which enable us to help you quickly get your goods to stores or homes. We pride ourselves on flexibility; whether that means you only need us to shelter mere pallets of stock or you need to scale up exponentially. Having more than 400,000 feet of custom storage space means that we have the capacity to serve both large and small needs.

At Strategic Warehousing, we use RF barcoding to keep an eye on your inventory. It’s a real plus when you want to manage your stock from afar. You can log into your customer data dashboard from work, home, or the road to get an instant overview or detailed report of your company’s inventory, shipping, and project needs.

It wouldn’t be e-commerce without some special handling. We can do that too. We can arrange a hands-on pick-and-pack operation. Maybe you just need us to take care of one, or even thousands of individual parts; our fulfillment specialists can design a program for your needs.

It’s all strategic by design and it begins with you. We help you find a solution by having an expert walk you through the options.  We invite you to sit down with a specialist today and learn about our customized consulting packages for any business any industry.

It’s why Strategic Warehousing is the leading warehouse and logistics planning provider in Minneapolis and the Midwest. Our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly every product from food to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why Strategic Warehousing could be your key partner in this new year.

Do you have warehousing and fulfillment needs this holiday season? You’re not alone in Minneapolis, especially since several retailers had to order early in a bid to out-think our current administration when it comes to potential tariffs and shortages of products.

Strategic Warehousing is needed when you figure that a strong economy and lots of conventional retailers are going head-to-head with e-commerce businesses who put a serious priority on quick delivery.

It’s guesstimated that strong e-commerce demand alone will result in a need of an additional half million warehousing and distribution workers nationwide in 2018-2019. There are two immediate ways to tackle this problem; consider options on how to automate certain warehouse functions that can create more efficiency, and of course, hire more people in what is already a tight labor market.

It will require strategic thinking to look beyond the current holiday crush and think about the value of recruiting and retaining good talent for the long-term in a job market that’s nearing full employment and demanding higher wages.

It’s a promising and efficient future that Strategic Warehousing’s name and attitude embraces.  We can offer you 600,000 square feet of custom storage space in convenient proximity to the Minneapolis area.

Seventy years of collective experience means we’ve weathered a change or two and seen a few labor challenges as well. We’re ready to adapt to meet your present and future needs. We know you can’t sleep when there’s an important shipment to be delivered around the holidays and at other times—we have multiple storage options, and our service to you runs 24/7.

It’s why Strategic Warehousing is the leading warehouse and logistics planning provider in Minneapolis and the Midwest. Our personalized and responsive service sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly everything from food to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why Strategic Warehousing is a key player in warehousing during the holidays and all year around.

There’s a snow storm coming! That isn’t exactly unexpected in a place like Minneapolis, Minnesota. But it could be very bad news if you’re a retailer who isn’t stocked up on items like snow shovels and snow blowers.

When it snows, Minnesotans still have to go. Businesses still need a solution to make something happen fast to meet consumer demand. If you need reliable inventory fulfillment, Strategic Warehousing is here to help you get ready for the season with smart storage and real-time data management that can give you immediate inventory control information. Whatever your needs, we have solutions that are as flexible as your demands.

Our ability to expertly handle inventory fulfillment comes from a logistical planning consultation in which we get to understand your business and needs. The goal is to ensure your business runs as smoothly as possible. It pays to have a local partner who knows all about the special complications the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro can bring; whether they range from construction, traffic congestion or weather.

Strategic Warehousing is ready to be your one-stop-shop for everything you need to get your shipments to their destinations safely, quickly and efficiently; that goes double if you need professionally managed storage solutions that are technologically up to date and flexible.

We can offer you 400,000 square feet of custom storage in convenient proximity to the Minneapolis area. 70 years of collective experience means we’re able to adapt to meet your present and future needs.

It’s why Strategic Warehousing is Minneapolis and the Midwest’s leading Warehouse and logistics planning provider. It’s our personalized and responsive service that sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle inventory fulfillment and storage for nearly anything ranging from food, to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why turning location your advantage includes Strategic Warehousing.

Chances are you share something in common with Strategic Warehousing in Minneapolis, MN, even though you’re probably not aware of it. You probably admire efficiency and using technology to make everything from storing, transporting, logistics, and inventory management work well together.

If you appreciate a well-run storage and logistics service, Strategic Warehousing is already working from same sheet of paper you are.

They’re also looking beyond paper to the future of domestic and global trade. The buzz-word these days is Blockchain. A way of tracking valuables and trading information about shipments that up to this point have always relied on paper documents.

But like the standardized shipping container that arrived about a half-century ago, a Blockchain driven system with information shared via computer could very well revolutionize the industry.

Making it happen requires a willingness to try something new and little cooperation. Maybe a lot of cooperation. Shipping lines, businesses (everything from manufacturing to finance managers, brokers and ports) will have to work together to create a large platform to share information.

The Blockchain payoff is turning documentation chores which currently take days into something that can be completed in minutes. Along with driving down the cost of getting items from place-to-place, experts believe it could lead to billions of dollars in additional trade.

It’s a promising and efficient future that Strategic Warehousing’s name and attitude is perfectly suited for. We can offer you 500,000 square feet of custom storage in convenient proximity to the Minneapolis area. 70 years of collective experience means we’ve weathered a change or two—and we’re ready to adapt to meet your present and future needs. We know you can’t sleep when there’s an important shipment or task to be done—that’s why our service to you runs 24/7.

It’s also why Strategic Warehousing is Minneapolis and the Midwest’s leading Warehouse and logistics planning provider. It’s our personalized and responsive service that sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly everything from food, to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why being ready to take advantage of innovations like Blockchain includes Strategic Warehousing.

It’s nice to have a partner who can grow right along with you. Strategic Warehousing in Minneapolis, MN understands your needs can change, and when those changes happen, we’ll be ready with flexible storage options.

Just as the warmth of summer may give way to the latest sunbaked fad like fidget spinners, you want to be ready to gear up fast when and if demand really kicks-in so you and your customers can capitalize.

Strategic Warehousing is your flexible friend with so much space and many options. Maybe you only need help with a few pallets worth of inventory, or some extra fulfillment help to make sure your clients are taken care of. We can do it.

There wouldn’t be much strategy, however, if we didn’t offer you options for effective inventory control and smart storage that’s ready to handle the boom, when and if it happens.

It’s smart because radio frequency tracking (RF for short) barcode scanning is used for simple, fool-proof, and time efficient management of incoming and outgoing inventory and shipments.

Strategic Warehousing’s proprietary warehouse management system is called Logimation. By combining real time inventory and shipment data with our streamlined Smart Storage processes, Logimation allows us to provide fool-proof and cost-efficient logistics services for every customer need.

A national operations manager of a logistics company had this to say regarding how well we were able to satisfy his firm’s needs:

As a national logistics company, we provide door to door trucking services from any point in the United States. We need a warehousing and smart storage partner who understands the fast-moving nature of our business and who can provide the support we need in terms of real time data tracking, 24/7 support, and flexible, money-saving storage options. That’s why we partner with Strategic Warehousing.

Our real-time data management can offer you the data you need to stay on top of business. It’ll help you understand what’s happening today and allow you to draw some conclusions about what’s possibly ahead. You’ll agree it’s very handy to be able to log-in wherever you are and learn about your company’s inventory, shipping, and project needs.

It’s why after more than 30 years Strategic Warehousing is Minneapolis and the Midwest’s leading Warehouse and logistics planning provider. It’s our personalized and responsive service that sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly everything from food grade needs to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why having a great business strategy includes Strategic Warehousing.

Is your business ready to handle success? We’re not talking a few extra shipments as spring takes hold and summer approaches. Will your firm have the knowledge to plan and deliver should sales become hotter than July in early May?

Strategic Warehousing understands because we’ve seen this one before—maybe a thousand times or more. It’s good to have someone in your corner who is ready to listen to your needs and offer you solutions.

Maybe you just need some extra storage space; maybe there’s a need for extra fulfillment; maybe something needs to be delivered as well. Strategic Warehousing is ready to offer all of these options and more to fit your business’s ever-changing needs.

It starts with years of experience and warehouse management system software that is carefully tailored to meet your company’s specific needs and problem areas. You can expect a personalized experience from Strategic Warehousing that is as efficient and as flexible as possible to suit your present needs.

Here’s how a shipping manager from a Minnesota Tree Care Business describes his experience with Strategic Warehousing:

“Our business really expanded during the busy season. We had inventory in two locations and were investing a lot of time managing the shipping process. As we moved from being a full truck company to more of a parcel shipping model, we realized a few things: we didn’t need to pay for a full-time warehouse manager and we could become more cost-efficient by outsourcing everything to a partner like Strategic Warehousing.”

It’s why after more than 30 years Strategic Warehousing is Minneapolis and the Midwest’s leading Warehouse and logistics planning provider. It’s our personal and responsive service that sets us apart. Contact us today at (651) 405-1920 to learn how we handle nearly everything from food grade needs to bulk and packaged storage. Find out why having a great business strategy includes Strategic Warehousing in Minneapolis and in every corner of the U.S.