Warehouse
Mallory Alexander International Logistics has a wide range of Warehousing and Distribution Services. We currently operate over 2 million square feet of warehousing in the United States. This space continues to grow as new customers seek the services of our company to handle their warehousing and distribution requirements.
Mallory Alexander International Logistics recognizes that a key need of manufacturers and shippers is to be able to expand and contract with their business cycles in terms of space and labor requirements. We are also well versed in how accounts need to reduce costs through sharing overhead expenses.
Shared public warehousing enables our customers to:
- Enter new markets without large capital investments
- Enter and leave markets based on customer needs
- Improve service and reduce transportation costs by postponing final assembly
- Have access to a full array of value-added services offered by Mallory Alexander International Logistics
- Have access to state-of-the-art warehousing and inventory control systems
- Have high standards of security
- Have a variable costs structure
Within our public warehouse operations, we can provide the following services to our customers:
- Receiving
- Storage
- Order Processing
- Shipping
- Inventory Management
- Labeling
- Kitting
- EDI/Internet Communications
- Transportation Management
Whether it involves divesting an existing operation or the design, implementation, and operations of a new facility, Mallory Alexander International Logistics takes a collaborative business approach to design solutions tailored to meet your unique business needs. This approach allows you to focus corporate funds on your core business, increase your ROI, and increase your customer service.
Dedicated contract warehouse management solutions can:
- Free capital for other corporate uses
- Increase customer service
- Increase warehouse efficiencies through process improvement and warehouse automation
- Shift costs from fixed to variable
- Improve information technology
- Reduce inventory carrying costs through better planning
- Improve security
- Enhance flexibility
Mallory Alexander has built solid relationships with a network of 4PL warehouses that allow us to retain customer ownership and oversight of the operations. This brings the very best of warehousing services to our customers with the flexibility to adapt to their supply chain needs. Mallory Alexander currently operates 33 domestic and international contract warehouse locations.
At these locations, Mallory provides complete supply chain services including:
- Control at both the origin and destination warehouse locations, including inventory management
- Managing container pools
- Drayage and transloading
- Scheduling inspections and providing samples for inspection
- Providing projections to ensure proper staffing
- Receiving and shipping
- Reverse logistics
- Centralized billing for all services and locations
Mallory Alexander International Logistics is committed to delivering the level of solutions that provide value beyond our customers’ expectations. This involves an in-depth analysis of your logistics process, an assessment of alternative strategies, and a recommendation of a realistic and cost-effective solutions to your own business objectives. Increased returns on assets, greater control of inventory, and enhanced flexibility are the rewards.
Mallory Alexander international Logistics offers a wide range of value-added services that include:
- Reverse logistics
- Inventory management
- Labeling
- Kitting/assembly
- Pick/pack operations
- Rail sided locations
- Temperature control services
- Weighing/sampling
- Transload services
- Customized packaging solutions
- Fulfillment services
- Packaging services
Managing accurate inventory and timely order processing across multiple customers requires an advanced and scalable Warehouse Management System (WMS). Mallory Alexander’s WMS is versatile enough to perform in a public or contract warehouse environment. Mallory’s WMS resides on Mallory’s AS400 located in Memphis, TN and we have a team of programmers that specialize in the software. Our WMS provides complete inventory control across multiple warehouses and supports designated put away strategies, product rotation requirements, stackability rules, acceptable substitutions, low stock notices, packing preferences, flexible billing methods, wireless enabled for RF scanning of receipts and shipments, barcode labeling for tracking RFID/EPC codes, automated and event-triggered reporting, and multiple communication methods such as EDI, XML, secure website, email, and auto-fax. Our WMS is also interfaced with UPS and FedEx on small package shipments.
Defined below are some additional capabilities our system can offer:
- Pick Sequencing
- SKU Bill of Material Components
- Split Order Picking
- Pick Location Replenishment
- Batch picking
- Packaging
- Receiving
- Put Away Logic
- Location Conveyance
- Radio Frequency Capabilities
- Inter-Warehouse Product Movement
- Cycle Counting
- Physical Inventory
- SKU Velocity Logic
- Lot Tracking
- FEFO
- FIFO
- Product Recall