Case Study: Avatar Partners Helps Westcoast Warehousing Improve Efficiency And Increase Its Competitive Advantages For Fast-Growing Third Party Logistics Company

By Avatar Partners
Westcoast Warehousing is a fast-growing, Southern California-based 3PL that partners with some of the largest and best-known retailers in the U.S., including JCPenney, Sears and Kohl's. After experiencing some heady success, Westcoast Warehousing found itself facing the challenge of upgrading its systems and increasing its competitive edge in order to continue the company's impressive pattern of growth and provide the ever-increasing level of service its customers require in order to allow their businesses to compete and grow.

Key services offered by Westcoast Warehousing include "pick-and-pack" and direct-to-store (DTS) replenishment, options that allow retailers to ship product in bulk directly to Westcoast Warehousing, which maintains a six-to-eight-week supply of inventory on the retailer's behalf. The retailers place weekly orders; product is then shipped accordingly via pre-packed boxes. This relieves retailers of the massive infrastructure and expense associated with in-house logistics and inventory management, and allows them to realize significant cost-savings combined with increased efficiency and flexibility.