Ascend brings additional value to your warehousing needs through our Transportation and Value-Added Services. Our one-stop solution can optimize your supply chain with one third party logistics partner serving your regional requirements. 

Cross Dock | Freight Consolidation

Savings in Warehousing and Transportation

Do you need a solution that is fast and turnaround times are same day? Through crossdocking, Ascend can help you rapidly consolidate shipments from a variety of sources and realize economies of scale in your outbound transportation. This service eliminates the inventory function of a warehouse by transferring incoming shipments to outgoing trucks within a 24-48 hour period. This JIT turnaround brings value to your supply chain by reducing your time to the customer.

While cross-docking can save labor time and storage costs, Ascend can also save you costs by consolidating shipments. By reworking product in a staging area and matching it up with other freight to create a larger shipment is a big cost savings to your freight budget line. Now you can spend those dollars in a different way.

Since 80% of supply chain costs reside on the transportation side, this creative approach reduces cost in your supply chain movement. Giving us information in advance allows the Ascend team to plan and execute with full visibility and quickness.

VALUE ADDED SERVICES

Handling “outside the box” processes at the warehouse reduces time and costs

Our goal at ASCEND is to provide our customers with a one-stop solution to their supply chain. We realize that not all supply chain needs fit inside the box of processes. And we understand that customer orders can be time sensitive when meeting market demands.

For this reason, ASCEND performs a combination of traditional logistics services and non-traditional services that are outside the normal processes. We offer our customers value by performing these services at the warehouse eliminating the need for additional handling, transportation, and time to be added into the supply chain process. Our need to meet our customer needs demands an agile work environment that can be responsive to the additional services that may be required at any time.

Services:

• Packaging
• Point of Sales Displays
• End-of-Aisle Displays
• Pallet Builds
• Cross-docking
• Sorting
• Kitting
• Light Assembly and Manufacturing Support
• Stackout Projects
• Product Inspections
• Damage Inspections
• Quality Testing
• Labeling
• Returns Processing
• Banding and Bundling
• Postponement

MULTI-CLIENT WAREHOUSING

Management of Inventories in shared Warehouse Facilities that are clean, safe and secure

Ascend Supply Chain Solutions provides multi-client warehouse storage for your regional distribution needs. Placing inventories in our Tennessee operations, we will receive, manage and ship your products to customers throughout the Southeast and Midwest regions. Our strategic locations can deliver to your customers within the region in a 2-day period.

This high return and low risk warehousing option allows you to use the services that you need, shared labor, equipment, systems and overhead, with other clients. A flexible space option allows expansion and contraction of your inventories based on seasonal or promotional needs with no capital investment for your organization. This scalable option is a turnkey solution supported with a responsive customer service team that cares about serving your needs.

What are the advantages of Multi-Client Warehousing environments?