Warehouse FAQs

We don’t limit ourselves to any one specific industry. We are a very flexible warehouse and are open to offering our services to pretty much any industry.

Warehouse rates are determined by the warehouse footprint of the product, how quickly the product will be moving in and out of the warehouse as well as any specific handling and shipping requirements that are required of an individual product. We believe that there is no one price fits all when it comes to warehousing products and we will structure our pricing to be competitive and meet the needs of our customers. To receive a quote for your goods, send in a contact form here.

Short term is usually considered when storing a customers product for less than a month. Long term storage is usually considered storage of products that will be in our warehouse for a minimum of 1 month and beyond.

All of our safe warehouses are equipped with the highest level of security for your goods, including: 24/7 state-of-the-art video monitoring with 30+ day retention, cell connected security systems, as well as patrolled yards.

We can store hazardous materials on a case by case basis depending on the product. Please contact us about your hazmat goods.

All inventory levels are monitored in our Warehouse Management System (WMS). Customers are provided a login to our system to allow them the ability to monitor their inventory levels in real-time, 24/7, 365 days a year.

We use 3PL Central and Ramp Enterprise Systems, both widely recognized and state of the art WMS software systems to track our customers inventory from receiving, storage to final distribution.

A 3PL warehouse is a link in the supply chain that allows customers to utilize the receiving, storage, and distribution services of the 3PL so that they can have the flexibility to expand and contract as their business changes and not have to incur the costs associated with having to rent, maintain and operate their own warehouse. The 3PL warehouse allows the customer to focus on growing and expanding their core business and not the day to day handling of the product.

A 3PL works by providing outsourced logistics services pertaining to the movement and management of customer goods from third parties. This can encompasses anything that involves management of one or more facets of procurement, fulfillment, Value Add Services (VAS) and shipping/receiving activities that involves storing or shipping items.

A customs bonded warehouse is a secured warehouse in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty.

We follow and adhere to the strict guidelines of the Oregon Department of Agricultural, as well as utilize a professional contractor that provides monthly services to ensure that our warehouses are pest free.

The difference between cross-docking and warehouse storage is that cross-docking is the unloading of product directly from incoming transport onto outbound transport with little if any, storage in-between, whereas warehousing requires a stock of product on hand to distribute to customers on an as-needed basis.

The cross-docking process begins with receiving the incoming freight from one or multiple shipments. The freight is then sorted and segregated per customer requirements. The product is then loaded out onto one or multiple shipments per the customer’s specifications.

Transloading can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 5 hours depending on how the product is received, and the services that our customer is looking for. If the product arrives palletized or in crates, then the process is usually very quick, but if the product arrives loose and needs to be individually unloaded, sorted and segregated and palletized for shipment out, then it can often take hours.

We can do both. Depending on the size of the account and if we have the customer set up into our WMS system.

Individual orders are shipped via USPS, FEDEX, FTL or by local LTL carriers per the customers requirements.

If a pallet is damaged upon receiving and there is a potential claim, a picture of the pallet is taken and immediately sent to the customer for review. The customer then advises the warehouse to continue receiving or to hold the product in quarantine to allow further review.

We perform an immediate inquiry on receipts to and from the customer associated with the sku(s) in question. This inquiry will often times include discussions with the customer. For all customers we have an agreed upon SLA in place to protect both the warehouse and the owner of goods, which allows a very small variance discrepancy in which both parties understand and can recoup any financial loss when a loss occurs.