Warehousing

• Flex Logistics operates multi-client public/shared warehousing facilities around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. FLEX Logistics offers flexible warehousing solutions for clients with short-term or fluctuating space requirements at a variable cost. FLEX Logistics Public/shared Warehousing Services allow Customers to expand or contract inventory based on demand, which enables Customers to squeeze costs out of their supply chains and maximize profits. Advantages of Public/shared Warehousing include: the opportunity to consolidate shipments with other customers in the same facility, labor and operating expenses are typically lower because labor can be allocated across customers, and contract terms are typically shorter term and more flexible.
• Public Warehousing is a cost effective solution for:
  • Warehousing of inventory with fluctuating space requirements
  • Seasonal distribution programs
  • Product overflow in existing distribution center
  • First-time marketplace entry for a new product or region
  • Supply chains that require multiple distribution points

  FLEX Logistics offers Public/shared Warehousing Services in multiple regions around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with its main hubs based in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.

   

• FLEX Logistics Contract Warehousing services are ideal for Clients wishing to establish a distribution center in a particular region. FLEX Logistics operates successful contract warehousing operations for companies seeking long-term supply chain solutions at dedicated facilities. Advantages of contract warehousing include a specialized labor force, facility, and standard operating procedures designed specifically to the Client’s operation. This ensures an abundance of resources as the Client does not have to share labor, equipment, dock doors, or floor space with other Clients.
  Contract Warehousing differs from Public/shared Warehousing in that it is typically a multi-year arrangement and it usually entails more aggressive facility start-up activities including facility selection, acquisition of equipment, and deployment of labor. FLEX Logistics has formal business implementation processes in place to support facility openings efficiently and quickly.
  FLEX Logistics has a proven track record providing the utmost in inventory accuracy. At FLEX Logistics a skilled Inventory Control Team practices regular cycle counts at every FLEX Logistics facility and participates in the organization of annual counts with valued Customers. FLEX Logistics best-in-class approach to inventory management ensures a quantifiable inventory accuracy of 99.9%.

Cross-docking is an effective solution leveraged to improve transportation service to customers and reduce handling and storage costs. It allows clients to route products from one or multiple manufacturing sites to a FLEX Logistics distribution center strategically located near to the designated customer population. The product is shipped in bulk from manufacturing plants to FLEX Logistics hubs where it is deconsolidated into multiple shipments and delivered directly to customers. Additionally, special packaging and labeling requirements can be met as a value-added function of the FLEX Logistics cross-dock service offering.

Crossdocking is a sound strategy for companies that:

• Find they are consistently shipping from manufacturing site(s) to multiple customers, resulting in frequent and costly small less-than-truckload shipments that have to travel long distances. Crossdocking allows companies to send bulk shipments via full truckload, intermodal container to a strategic FLEX Logistics distribution center that is closer to the customer base, making pool delivery possible and/or reducing the LTL expense by reducing the distance to the destination.
• Require the unloading and merging of bulk shipments from various points of manufacture for the combining of specified SKU’s to fulfill individual or store orders.
• Have a regional customer base that is far from the origin of manufacture and demands a short delivery window between the time of order placement and the requested delivery date.
• Do not have the physical space, equipment, labor, or materials required for special order fulfillment, palletizing, labeling and packaging activities at their manufacturing site.
• Wish to reduce the amount of excess inventory stored at their own facility or manufacturing site, either to reduce inventory carrying costs or simply due to limited available space.