Saddle Creek Logistics Services

Today's marketplace is moving faster than ever, and companies are challenged to distribute their products more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively; cross-docking can be a useful tool to help keep pace with customer demand.

This report explores the most common practices, biggest challenges, and emerging trends in cross-docking nationwide and examines changes in cross-docking practices within the last three years.

UPS is looking past the low diesel prices and plans on spending $100 million on a dozen compressed natural gas stations and 380 new tractors throughout the U.S. as part of an effort to achieve 1 billion miles with alternative fuel vehicles by the end of 2017.

Analysts questioned the company's plans about making heavy investments in logistics, even at the expense of profits, and wondered why they were planning to buy more assets like trucks, and lease jets to take on shippers like UPS and FedEx.

Saddle Creek Logistics Services continues to expand its portfolio of subscription-based customers with the addition of Vinyl Me, Please.

Amazon purchased thousands of its own, Amazon-branded trailer trucks to help move inventory between its various fulfilment and sortation centers in an effort to improve stocking efficiency and delivery.

When Princess House wanted to expand order fulfillment capabilities and reduce delivery times, the direct-selling kitchenware company turned to Saddle Creek...the 3PL custom engineered a fulfillment solution that includes a new West Coast facility and a significant investment in fulfillment automation.

During the holidays, demand soars for product displays and gift packs from Coty Inc, the beauty product giant has turned to a trusted partner to accommodate the dramatic spike in its packaging needs.

3PL marks 50 million miles with expanded operations, dual-fuel vehicles and fueling station upgrade.

An in-depth look at holiday fulfillment with ideas for optimizing operations, improving service levels and controlling costs.

When sales exploded for TalkingRain’s Sparkling ICE®, the Seattle-based beverage company turned to Saddle Creek to help accommodate its rapidly evolving supply chain needs. Through distribution network reconfiguration and large-scale product manipulation, Saddle Creek has helped TalkingRain to meet market demand on a national level.

Volkswagen has admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide are fitted with software to cheat emissions tests, and the German car-maker is facing deepening scrutiny after being forced to admit it cheated on the tests for nearly 500,000 vehicles.

The biggest pain points for the packaging business are space and labor, but customers count on Saddle Creek’s flexibility to help them address both of these issues.

As drivers, shippers and airlines continue to enjoy lower fuel prices, the oil industry is responding to much lower profits with sharp cuts in spending and employment that are hurting economic growth.

Today, more and more companies are finding value in optimizing their distribution network. By taking a strategic approach to network configuration, they are improving service levels, better managing their inventory and reducing transportation costs.