Retail Supply & Demand Chain

As businesses develop, management teams must continually implement new strategies and ideas to help manage this growth. In many instances this involves the outsourcing of the shipping and fulfillment departments to third-party logistics (3PL) provider. These providers typically offer a set of services that cater to the needs of midsize and large companies that require multiple packaging, shipping, and storage solutions.
 
When a multichannel merchant decides to shop for a 3PL provider, it may figure that almost any fulfillment house is qualified to provide a drop-shipping solution. In fact, the real benefits of drop-shipping services lie in the provider's software and its ability to provide enhanced services to a merchant's consumer and business customers as well as the ability to provide maximum integration into the merchant inhouse enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.