With our two bonded facilities, in Southampton UK and Roosendaal Netherlands, we offer both bonded and non-bonded warehouse storage in each territory, to support your organisation’s unique storage requirements.
Our Suite of 3PL Warehousing Services
At Delamode, we’ve taken the knowledge gained from our 30 years of experience in retail logistics, to create a comprehensive suite of tailored 3PL warehousing services that solve common warehousing challenges, and deliver value to help drive your organisation forward.
Non-Bonded and Bonded 3PL Warehousing Services - Which Do You Need?
Non-Bonded Warehousing
Our non-bonded 3PL warehousing services are a great choice for organisations selling products that will be sold in the same country they are stored in. At Delamode, this would be either the UK or Netherlands.
Non-bonded warehousing simplifies the tax and duties process, as you pay these when your stock enters the country it will be stored in, and offers fast speed to market, enabling you to quickly start shipping your products to retailers and end customers with no additional clearances to pay for.
Bonded Warehousing
Our two, fully AEO-authorised, bonded facilities, In Southampton UK and Roosendaal Netherlands, enable you to store your imported products under bond for extended periods of time, without having to pay duties or taxes until your goods are sold within the country they are stored in.
This helps to free up cash flow, ease financial strain, balance the financial burden of storing large stock holdings, and enables you to bring stock into one of our facilities under bond (paying for only a single container shipment), and ship stock to our second facility as demand requires, under bond, via our daily shuttle.
If your goods are going to be exported, storing them under bond enables you to avoid paying taxes and duties until they are cleared into their destination country, offering significant cost saving benefits.
The Organisations We Support & The Goods We Store
At Delamode, we support organisations like yours to sell into over 1000 independent and major retail partners across the UK, EU, and rest of the world, with 3PL warehousing services, import and export services, and domestic distribution, that help to support your growth and maximise your sales volumes and revenue.
We specialise in storing fast moving consumer goods such as electronics, toys and games, sporting goods, homeware, and a wide range of other products, across our 67,000 pallet capacity Southampton site, and twin 4,000 pallet capacity facility in Roosendaal Netherlands.
How We Solve Common Warehousing Challenges
Our 3PL warehousing services are adapted and refined over time to enable you to avoid and navigate the challenges of warehousing.
- Due to the portside location of our Southampton site, we follow a port-centric model that helps customers of our 3PL warehousing services to cut time, cost and carbon from your supply chain. By reducing unnecessary transport and empty container miles by up to 20%, and reducing emissions, we can save you upwards of 19%.
- Our retailer compliance and customisation and rework VAS’s, enable you to ensure your product, packaging, labelling and documentation adheres to your retailers’ various requirements, helping you to avoid hefty penalties and loss of sales.
- Our bookings team helps you to navigate demand planning, and your retailers’ just-in-time models, so you can respond reactively to warehouse availability to avoid missed sales. They also book and manage your shipments, helping you to avoid costly delays.
- Customers of our 3PL warehousing services have full control and visibility of your supply chain, via the Blue Yonder WMS we use across both facilities. We integrate our system with those of your various retailers, aligning inventory and order management data to prevent shipping errors, delays and more.
- This system integration also provides your retailers with up-to-the-minute updates on inventory and shipping progress, and automatically delivers ASN’s, helping you meet retailer expectations and maintain business readiness.
- Our powerful WMS enables you to access all the real-time data associated with your supply chain to help you understand the performance of your products.
- We work with you to plan and implement tailored SOP’s and ways of working tailored to your unique requirements.
Our Suite of 3PL Warehousing Services
Order Picking
- We invest in equipment to support the evolving needs of our clients, and to enable us to implement bespoke methodology that maximises picking efficiency and operational effectiveness. With an array of MHE, NVA trucks, Flexi trucks, and manual picking trolleys, we’re fully equipped.
- Our system gives you full control of your orders, full visibility of delivery and collection dates, and is able to assign the picking of an order in the most efficient way, helping to streamline our working processes and optimise your storage space.
- We adapt our picking method based on your FIFO preferences, and product factors such as batch control and best before dates, to ensure each of your retailers receive goods that meet their requirements.
Ship to Store
- Outside of our ecommerce 3PL warehousing service (including reverse logistics), ship to store is the fastest route to market. We deliver goods directly into high street stores across the globe be that your own, or those of your retailers. We can also take away the shipping materials. You can book your STS service via our WMS.
- Need to stock in-store product promotions? Got products that sell well in certain areas? Is stock of your products running low, and you need a fast solution to maintain sales? Ship to Store is here to help.
- We can prepare STS shipments in either our UK or EU facility, ship them under bond to our second site, and cross dock your goods to stores in countries more accessible from that territory, in the most effective way.
Container Devanning
- From organising the freight of your goods from their manufacturer to our sites in the UK and EU, to liaising with the port or haulier to arrange the devanning of your products (whether that’s a few pallets, or a container featuring thousands of boxes and hundreds of SKUs), we manage the entire process of inbounding your products into our facilities.
- For customers of our 3PL warehousing services inbounding products into our Southampton facility, our portside facility helps you to avoid potentially costly container unloading deadlines, enables us to offer rapid devanning times of a matter of hours, and complete product inbounding 0.7-1.2 days faster than our competitors.
Cross Docking
- If you’re looking for a quick route the market, we deliver a cross docking service to quickly inbound products and ship them to retailers in the shortest possible time frame, without the goods spending much (or any) time in storage.
- The process looks much like our container devanning service above, only items enter our warehouse ready to be shipped, where they are split by carrier and destination, and shipped to your retailers, rather than stored.
- It’s not only our port-centric model that helps speed up the inbound and outbound process. Our system, used across both facilities, enables our team to begin planning delivery routing as soon as we have visibility of the order, long before the product reaches our warehouse.
Delivering Value At Every Turn
Beyond our core 3PL warehousing services, we can also provide a range of tailored VAS’s:
Customisation and rework: Our team customise and rework your products to help you serve a diverse range of customers with a generic stockline, and meet retailer agreements.
Packaging and Repackaging: Our team repackage your products from carton to their final packaging, pack products to ensure safe shipment, conduct repacking for returns, provide an in-store packaging experience for direct to consumer shipments, create gift boxes/multi-packs of your products, and ensure your packaging complies with all regulations.
Labelling: We ensure your products are correctly labelled or relabelled, to ensure regulatory compliance, adherence to retailer requirements, and provide product traceability.
Quality Control: Delamode safeguard your brand with thorough quality control services that help to ensure faulty products don’t reach retailers and end customers, and that products meet retailer requirements.
One system, two territories: Our Blue Yonder WMS gives customers of our 3PL warehousing services full visibility of your products and data across both facilities, full control of your supply chain, and enables you to move your products between each territory within 24 hours.
Knowledge of customs jurisdictions: Whatever the SIC codes of your products, we support you to navigate the clearance of your goods, incoterms, and ensure that your products comply with customs & jurisdictions.
Retailer compliance: We help you to comply with the requirements of your various retailers, not only modifying your products, but managing labelling, the booking of delivery slots, and loading your pallet to spec, to help you meet retailer expectations and avoid costly fines.
Speed to market: We ship your products to stores within 48 hours, including deploying customisation and retailer compliance work.
FAQs
What are warehousing services?
Warehousing services are a critical logistics service, used by brands who sell, store and transport products to retailers and consumers. Combining goods storage with efficient and established infrastructure, processes and practices, warehousing services typically cover: inbound logistics processes, storage, order picking, and VAS’s.
Different logistics partners may offer a variety of warehousing services. For example, at Delamode, we offer unbonded (standard) warehousing, and bonded warehousing services, which enable our clients to defer taxes and duties until your goods are sold.
These services and their core features may not appear to differ significantly, from partner to partner, but the territories of your partner’s warehouses, and the specific location of these facilities, might be the deciding factor for which company’s 3PL warehousing services you use.
At Delamode, our Southampton UK and Roosendaal Netherlands facilities, provide our clients with fast access to the UK, EU and ROTW. Similarly, our port-side UK facility, and port-centric model, can cut time, cost and carbon from your supply chain
What is 3PL fulfilment?
3PL fulfilment is the process by which third party logistics (3PL) companies inbound, process and eventually deliver goods to customers or retailers.
At Delamode, we offer ecommerce order fulfilment services, and order fulfilment for brands selling through retailers across the UK, EU, and ROTW.
3PL fulfilment may look different from partner to partner, but at Delamode, fulfilment covers:
- Receiving, unloading and scanning inventory
- Categorising, storing and tracking inventory
- Pick, packing and labelling goods as orders are made
- Internal transport, cross-docking and product handling (moving product to “outbound” area of facility)
- Arranging shipping and customs management
- Loading goods onto outbound vehicles for shipping
- Handling reverse logistics/returns.
What are fulfilment services?
Fulfilment services are critical services provided by 3PL companies, which manage the inbounding, processing, handling, picking, packing and labelling of goods.
Fulfilment services typically sit within the 3PL warehousing service and are optimised to efficiently and effectively store and prepare goods for shipping.
At Delamode, we offer fulfilment services for brands selling through retailers, and those selling direct to consumers.
What is a fulfilment partner?
A fulfilment partner is typically a 3PL/logistics company, working with brands to manage the inbounding, storage and preparation of goods for shipment/sale to retailers and consumers.
This service is typically referred to as order fulfilment, and sits within the wider warehousing service.
What do fulfilment services cost?
The cost of fulfilment services vary from 3PL partner to partner, and depending on the specific features of your operation and logistics requirements.
Delamode provides tailored quotations, based on your exact requirements.
We consider the following factors to calculate your quote: storage requirements, pallet volumes, order profile, SKU content, inbound requirements, picking complexity, VAS needs, and delivery requirements.
How do fulfilment centres work?
A fulfilment centre plays a critical role in the supply chain. It’s where goods are stored, inventory managed, and products prepared to be shipped to retailers and customers.
Fulfilment centres are staffed by experienced 3PL professionals who deploy effective and efficient processes and practises such as: inbounding goods, verifying and categorising goods, storing goods, order picking packaging and labelling, shipping and customs management, loading goods for outbound transport and reverse logistics.
Organisations gain access to fulfilment centres via 3PL warehousing services offered by logistics/3PL partners like Delamode. We have two fulfilment centres, one in Southampton UK, and Roosendaal Netherlands.
How is order fulfilment measured?
Different 3PL partners measure order fulfilment with a variety of KPIs, such as: On time despatch, Order accuracy, On time receipt, Carrier delivery performance, Stock accuracy etc
At Delamode, we offer tailored services based on your exact requirements, and therefore measurement changes from client to client. With our powerful, single WMS, we offer you full visibility of all reporting and data associated with your fulfilment.
What is inbound logistics?
Inbound logistics is the critical process by which goods are imported from overseas (the reason the service is regularly referred to as “import logistics”), unloaded at the port and stored until ready to be transported to retailers, or sold and shipped directly to consumers.
Effective inbound logistics services provide a huge range of benefits, including improving supply chain efficiency, retailer and customer satisfaction, providing cost savings, and supporting your growth.
What is container devanning?
Container devanning is a critical part of the inbound logistics process and is typically an element of 3PL warehousing services. At Delamode, our container devanning service provides you with a fully managed inbound process (organising and managing your inbound shipments), and effective and efficient devanning of goods into our facilities.
Due to the port-side location of our Southampton facility, our port-side model enables us to devan in a matter of hours, and inbound goods 0.7-1.2 days faster than competing 3PL partners.
What is cross docking?
Cross docking is the logistics process whereby inbound goods are devanned, processed and shipped to retailers in the shortest possible time frame. The main focus of cross docking is to minimise the amount of time goods spend in storage.
At Delamode, due the port-side location of our Southampton facility, our port-side model enables us to inbound goods 0.7-1.2 days faster than competing 3PL partners, further accelerating your route to market.
What is meant by supply chain management?
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of an organisation’s production flow, from the sourcing of materials/products to delivering goods to the shelves of retailers/hands of customers. Logistics partners, of course, play a critical role, in managing the inbounding of goods, storage, and shipment.
At Delamode International Logistics, we support supply chain management via efficient and cost-effective: freight forwarding, customs clearance, contract logistics, 3PL warehousing services (including bonded warehousing), ecommerce fulfilment, transport management and reverse logistics.
What is meant by value added services?
Value added services (or VAS’s), are additional services offered by 3PL providers, beyond the fundamental storage and shipping of products.
VAS’s may be deployed at all stages of the value chain, and help to streamline the logistics process, ease logistical challenges, and maximise supply chain efficiency.
VASs differ from partner to partner, but at Delamode, ours include: Customisation & Rework, Packaging & Repackaging and Labelling. In addition to a range of VAS-related processes, such as: Retailer Compliance and Customs Support. Learn more here.
