If you’re looking for a way to cut time, cost and carbon from your supply chain, finding a partner with a port-centric model is key.
Whether you’re a brand with a longstanding 3PL partner using the inland warehouse model, or are a new brand seeking efficient and cost-effective logistics support, join us as we explore how port-centric logistics can transform your supply chain.
What is Port-Centric Logistics?
Quite simply, port-centric logistics (or PCL as it’s referred to in the logistics industry), is a supply chain management strategy based on strategically positioning warehouse facilities and distribution centres at the port-side.
Serving as a more efficient alternative to the traditional inland warehousing model, PCL offers you:
- Faster access to your goods as they arrive from the manufacturer.
- Faster storage, as inbound goods can be processed and stored immediately after they’re devanned.
- Reduced unnecessary transport miles, emissions, lead times.
- Lower logistics services costs.
For organisations big and small, whatever your scale, the port-centric logistics helps to make your supply chain more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective.
How Does the PC Model Work?
Port-centric logistics removes 3 costly steps in the traditional inland warehouse model.
- No need to transport products up from the port to an inland warehouse.
- No need to bring empty containers back to the port.
- No container unloading deadlines and potentially costly fines to navigate.
Just think of the unnecessary costs, roadmiles and emissions you’d save by removing just a single one of these steps!
Instead, inbound products arrive at your chosen 3PL partner’s portside warehouse facility, and can be unloaded with no time restrictions, and no risk of incurring fines, before being quickly stored, until they need to be dispatched.
The Benefits of Port-Centric Logistics
- PCL significantly minimises your unnecessary transport and empty container miles. At Delamode, we can cut your mileage by up to 20%, and offer you significant savings.
- The PC model reduces carbon and emissions, helping to lower your organisational impact and support your environmental targets. Delamode’s port-centric model has reduced our clients’ carbon by over 100 miles per pallet.
- Port-centric logistics streamlines your supply chain, enabling your goods to be unloaded, stored, picked, packed and transported from a single port-side facility.
- The PC model cuts the cost of distribution as it shortens the distance your goods must travel.
- PCL reduces product delivery lead times, enabling you to offer the best customer experience, and compete with the best delivery rates in your market.
Our Approach
At Delamode, we have a flagship, state of the art facility on the Southampton docks where we provide eCommerce warehousing, bonded and non-bonded B2B warehousing, VAS’s, process returns, and from where your products are distributed.
This warehouse and distribution centre, which features a 67,000 sq ft solar panel system, generates a significant portion of our energy, and is EPC requirement-ready, is perfectly situated on the port-side to help you reap the benefits of port-centric logistics. – Slashing costs, carbon and time from your supply chain.
Our port-side location also enables us to offer a shuttle service that allows you to transport your products between our UK facility, and our second facility in Roosendaal, Netherlands, within 24 hours. This gives you excellent access to the EU market and ROTW, and full control over where your goods are positioned.
The Real Impact of the Port-Centric Model
For our customers, port-centric logistics has a very real, significant impact.
We recently welcomed a new client to the Delamode family, from the ambient food and drink sector, who were previously working with a partner following the traditional inland warehouse model.
Due to their previous partner’s inland Cheshire facility the client’s goods covered a total of 268 miles per pallet, many of which were unnecessary.
Our portcentric model removed the costly and unnecessary steps, and implemented a more streamlined supply chain that brought their total transport mileage down to just 163 per pallet. That’s a saving of over 100 miles!
As a result, we could offer significant savings of £27.20 per pallet (port to DC), including 8 weeks of storage, compared to the price of their previous provider using the traditional inland model.
Convinced about the benefits of port-centric logistics? Contact our team today to discuss your 3PL requirements.
