Our global footprint and extensive network means we have facilities ready to handle your supply chain, whether at origin or destination. By combining shipping with warehousing and distribution, you benefit from a seamless end-to-end solution with fewer logistic service providers. Complexity is reduced, and you gain speed, control and visibility.

It is important that supply chain managers have an overall strategy for commodity warehousing, particularly in resource poor environments where warehousing can provide a buffer against uncertainties and breakdowns within the supply chain. Managers need to think of warehouses not simply as four walls, a ceiling and a floor where inventory rests, but as dynamic operations centers housing a varied range of distinct yet complementary activities that combine to collect and hold products for subsequent shipment to service delivery points. Products are warehoused at every facility in the pipeline. Good warehousing ensures the physical integrity and safety of products and their packaging throughout the various storage facilities until they are dispensed to clients. The various activities that occur within a warehouse should be aligned so that products can be managed efficiently and orders can be filled and distributed expeditiously :

• A facility with adequate storage and working space as well as infrastructure components that will protect commodities from harmful environmental conditions
• Application of proper procedures so that commodities are always available, accessible, in good condition, and pose no risk of injury to workers
• Availability of timely and accurate inventory data for decision-making
• Qualified human resources in sufficient quantity to meet operational needs.
  Regardless of storage facility size—from a small health center to a central warehouse—the main operational activities for storage are very similar. How complex these activities become varies based on the volume of products to be managed and storage facility size; as well as particular product handling requirements, such as cold storage.