The Benefits of a 3PL for E-Commerce Retailers

Small businesses are an integral piece to the communities they serve. They offer a familiar face, a local product, jobs, and personalized service that are often lost with large corporations. However, in this new age of e-commerce, your favorite neighborhood store can reach far beyond its community and the confines of its brick-and-mortar walls. Achieving scalability for regional, national and even international distribution used to require resources only available to large national brands. That is no longer the case, and with the help from a third party logistics provider (3PL), small to medium-sized business (SMB’s) can deliver the same online and fulfillment experience to their customers as major enterprises. A recent article from Inbound Logistics details some of the key benefits a 3PL can offer to small businesses. Click this link to read more about 3PL’s and SMB’s.