Neill Cartage and Warehouse is Chicago's distribution warehouse / center for several clients around the world.
What is a distribution warehouse? How it assist manfactures and retailers in local markets?
A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialize building, which is stocked with products / goods to be re-distributed to consumer, retailers, and wholesalers. A distribution center is a key part, the ordering process, of the entire order fulfillment. A distribution center can also be called a warehouse, a DC, a fulfillment center, a cross-dock facility, a bulk break center, and a package handling center. The name by which the distribution center is known is commonly based on the purpose of the operation. Neill Cartage and Warehouse services several different manufactures, retailer, and consumer, and is considered all of the above to different clients.
Distribution centers are the foundation of supply chain as they allow a single location to stock a vast number of products. Since a large retailer / manufacture might sell thousands of products from thousands of vendors, it would be inefficient to ship each product directly from each vendor to each store. Many large retailers own and run their own distribution center, while smaller retailers may outsource this function to dedicated local logistics firm that coordinates the distribution of products for a number of companies.
Neill Cartage and Warehouse works with both large and small manufactures / retailers to handle their distribution network in Chicago and the Midwest. We are the eyes and hears for these manufactures as they hundreds of thousands of dollar of merchandise in our warehouses.