Pitt Ohio rolls out new Warehouse and Distribution Service for in Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions

Pittsburgh-based less-than-truckload (LTL) and logistics services provider Pitt Ohio announced this week that it has rolled out a new Warehouse and Distribution Service offering in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions.

This service will provide project work, surging inventory, and forward inventory services, according to company officials, adding that it will help its shipper customers to gain increased efficiency through an integrated offering, meshing the company’s transport, warehousing, and management services. Pitt Ohio’s Mid-Atlantic- and Midwest-based Warehouse and distribution centers are based in Cleveland, OH, Grand Island, NE, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, PA, Indianapolis, IN, Rock Island, IL, and Roseville, MN.

“Pitt Ohio decided to offer warehousing services based on the emerging needs of our customers,” Geoff Muessig, Chief Marketing Officer told LM. “Most of our warehouse facilities are adjacent to our terminals. Our integrated solution allows Pitt Ohio to process our customers’ orders late in the day and still provide next day delivery up to 250 miles. Pitt Ohio is very well positioned to meet the needs of seasonal customers and those who are confronted with a surge in demand.”

While this announcement reflects the formal introduction of Pitt Ohio’s Warehouse and Distribution Service, Pitt Ohio has been already active on this front, in terms of providing these types of services.

As an example of this, Muessig pointed to how Pitt Ohio quickly came up with a solution for a customer dealing with issues related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic over the course of a single day, in which it formed a warehousing solution for a technology shipper that unexpectedly ran out of room at a distribution center, with a full warehouse and a backlog of 25 trailers waiting to be unloaded.

Within two hours, Pitt Ohio’s Supply Chain Team created a warehousing solution for the customer’s products starting the next business day, at which point it began unloading the 25 trailers into the warehouse space and started the storage and re-loading services for the next five weeks until the customer was caught up. What’s more, Pitt Ohio also provided shuttle service from the warehouse to the customer’s distribution center and diverted loads with its sister company ECM Transport, to three other distribution centers in the customer’s network to keep its supply chain moving.

The primary services provided through Pitt Ohio’s new Warehouse and Distribution Service offering in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, cited by Muessig, include:

• storage: specializing in meeting surging inventory needs, forward deployed inventory storage and distribution, and short-term project work;
• distribution: specializing in Just in Time (JIT), appointment, merge in transit, postponement, cross docking, consolidation, pool distribution, and residential deliveries;
• order fulfillment: specializing in kitting, forward deployed inventory, and processing late orders; and
• return Management: specializing in solving logistical challenges that are tailored to customer needs

As for the main shipper customer benefits of this service, he pointed to various examples, including:

• simplifying inventory surges with quick resolutions to better handle business demands and
• gain flexibility in customer supply chains to make changes on demand, scaling up quickly with its proven agility in our warehouse network, maximizing the speed of delivering products to customers, and supporting customers’ manufacturing processes by managing the overflow of raw materials or finished goods;
• ensuring customer satisfaction with extended order times and gaining extended order times while providing next day service to customers, integrating warehouse services to provide late in the day pick up times with reliable, next-day delivery service, and protecting customers’ peace of mind with exceptional customer service and accurate day to day management of their inventory; and
• better inventory management resulting in improved efficiencies and peace of mind,  
• collaborating to develop a plan that meets customers’ needs after engaging in a discussion to understand their requirements, reducing costs and gaining better service by leveraging Pitt Ohio’s data-driven, continuous improvement process, focusing on the growth of their business while Pitt Ohio analyzes customer’s data to provide a solution to meet their unique needs, and
• minimize risk in the handling and security of customers’ goods within Pitt Ohio-owned spaces and with its experienced staff