Orlando Warehouse Fulfillment and Distribution

As the word “warehouse” implies, a fulfillment warehouse is a place where goods are stored for businesses like ecommerce and B2B ones with the inventory managed. The term “fulfillment” then represents how orders are filled for the business and delivered to the end customer—whether that’s a retail store, another place of business, or an individual. So, a fulfillment warehouse (perhaps called a fulfillment center) serves as a hub for supply chain interactions and is often managed by a third party provider like NXTPoint Logistics does with our Orlando distribution warehouse and our other owned and managed assets throughout the United States.

Fulfillment warehouses like our Orlando distribution warehouse streamline logistics for companies as orders are efficiently, cost-effectively, and accurately received, stored, managed, picked, packed, and shipped. If this is something that you’d like professionally handled for your company, let’s talk! Contact us online or call (833) 835-1201.

Many times, these terms (shortened as DCs and FCs) are used synonymously, but there are differences. Distribution centers typically serve as places to store large amounts of products with inventory arriving from numerous companies. When it’s time to forward these products, it generally occurs in bulk, going to retail stores, other distribution centers, or other places that will accept volume deliveries. Inventory management and shipping are handled by the pallet or via another large-scale system. Fulfillment centers, though, handle more nuanced operations. They also receive inventory from multiple vendors but accept smaller orders to pick, pack, and ship on a more individual level before shipping a volume of orders.

So, while fulfillment centers (like our Orlando 3pl warehouse) can also take on large volume orders like a distribution center would, a distribution center wouldn’t typically handle the complexities and intricacies taken on by a fulfillment center.

At a high level, logistics is an umbrella term about product management activities taking place along supply chains while fulfillment is part of logistics. You can think of fulfillment as the customer-facing portion of the supply chain although “customer” can be broadly defined: it could be a retail store or other business with B2B supply chains and individual customers with ecommerce ones. With fulfillment, our Orlando 3pl warehouse receives orders, picks and packs them, updates inventory records, and ships them for delivery to the end customer.

A warehouse fulfillment specialist at our Orlando 3pl warehouse is a member of our talented team with niche knowledge and expertise in the fulfillment portion of the overall logistics process. They stay fully up to date about the inventory being stored and managed in our warehouse and, when they receive orders, they efficiently, cost-effectively, and accurately pick and pack them to optimally ship them on time to the appropriate customers. Although their work is done behind the scenes and are people that you may never meet (unlike, say, your friendly truck drivers who actually deliver goods), they’re an integral part of strong supply chains.

We leverage more than a century of experience in all of the scalable supply chain services that we offer with flexible expertise. We possess the deep resources and capacity found in large third-party logistics organizations with the responsiveness and adaptive customer service available through smaller ones. So, with NXTPoint Logistics, you receive the best of both worlds—including at but not limited to services offered at our Orlando 3pl warehouse.

With NXTPoint, you don’t have to make any long-term commitments or volume guarantees that are required by many other logistics companies. Meanwhile, you’ll benefit from our engineers, compliance experts, and other specialized professionals who augment your in-house resources along with our 2,200-plus well vetted, trusted partners. Plus, you’ll receive unmatched visibility into your supply chain through our agile, advanced technology.

The result: a strengthened supply chain and an opportunity to expand into new markets, nationally and internationally, for a more competitive global presence. To connect with our experts and share your unique needs, please contact us online or call (833) 835-1201.