Are you anxious about mingling at social events?

Do you struggle with the topic from which to initiate a conversation?

How do you best display your intellect, wit and conviviality

at the next summer BBQ?

We have the answer:  Warehousing and Fulfillment Trivia!

Opening a conversation with obscure warehousing facts is an excellent way to establish an instant bond with a new acquaintance at your next social outing.  He or she will surely remember you and your unique and clever repartee.

Here are some little-known facts about fulfillment from which to build that fast, new friendship:

Q:   "Do you know how many pallets fit on a container ship?"

A:    18,000 - 20,000

Q:   "What is the value of the products moved through the Ports of Los Angeles every day?"

A:    $1 Billion

Q:  "Which Major League Baseball team sells the most branded merchandise?"

A:    New York Yankees (followed by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs)

Q:   "Do you know how many warehouses Kelly Direct has?"

A:    Eleven.

Q:   "How would an assortment of warehouses streamline fulfillment operations and enhance your bottom line?"

A:   Based on over 25 years experience, Kelly Direct selects a tried-and-true warehouse(s) based on project suitability, proximity to the port, proximity to ship destination(s), IT sophistication, storage capability, ability to rapidly expand labor, and more. Our goal is to offer you and your customer extraordinary service at the lowest wholesale rates in the facility that makes sense.

Thank you!  Good luck practicing your new networking skills.  We are always happy to provide you, your clients, your friends, your relatives and complete strangers with insider fulfillment knowledge.

But it’s not so simple, is it?

Two suppliers are running behind schedule, one guy sent product to the wrong location, you’re worried about breakage,  nobody printed the inserts, you now need to send to Dallas locations, then Canada,  then “the rest of the list”, the AP department gave you the wrong Fed Ex account number and warehouse will be closed for the long weekend.   And then the dock workers go on strike.

But it’s ours.

We manage up to 10 supply chain services in the top 10 US markets.

From Start to Finish.  Done.

Our Signature 10x10 program offers supply chain and fulfillment solutions all over the world.  Some programs are small (1000 units run).  Some are large (44,000 B2C shipments per day).

If you’d like to have a talk about what is going on  -- or, rather, going wrong - with your assembly and kitting projects, please contact us today.  We would be happy to take a look at your supply chain operations, evaluate existing supplier performance and provide you – and your client -- better solutions.

We are pleased to announce our new signature initiative 10x10:  10 Supply Chain Services in the Top 10 Markets.”

Levering 30 years of experience in fulfillment and logistics, we have packaged a network of supply chain resources in the leading consumer markets in the US.  This menu-based program allows you to keep your favorite vendors in place and supplement with Kelly Direct fulfillment services as needed for the program.  We are extremely effective at working with (and evaluating) existing supplies and bringing in the other services required to execute on time, on spec and on budget.

Perhaps the biggest advantage to 10x10 is that we are “the glue” for the entire project, allowing you to focus on your client rather than spending hours managing a fairly complicated process with up to 10 moving parts.