Your inventory, in our buildings, on your numbers.
Not square footage for rent — an operated service: receiving, storage, picking, packing, shipping and returns, billed by the pallet and the touch instead of the lease.
Orders in the WMS before the daily cut-off ship the same day — waved, picked, packed and manifested before the last trailer leaves the dock.
3PL warehousing is the outsourcing of storage, inventory management and order fulfillment to a third-party logistics provider— your product lives in our distribution centers, our teams receive it, store it, pick it, pack it and ship it, and our warehouse management system keeps your ERP told the truth about every unit in real time. Instead of signing a lease, hiring a warehouse crew, buying racking and licensing a WMS, you buy the outcome: pallets stored, orders out the door before cut-off, inventory accuracy you can audit. Pricing follows activity — storage per pallet per month, handling per touch, value-added work per unit — so the warehouse line on your P&L scales with your sales instead of sitting there as fixed overhead.
The Qeep network is 18 distribution centers and 4.2 million square feet, deliberately split between two kinds of real estate: buildings beside the inbound gateways — LA/Long Beach, New York/New Jersey, Houston, Vancouver, Montreal — and buildings beside the population centers your orders actually ship to. Across that footprint sit six space types — ambient, bonded, Foreign Trade Zone, food-grade, GMP and temperature-controlled — because a pallet of imported electronics, a lot-controlled ingredient and a quarantined pharmaceutical batch are three different compliance problems wearing the same shrink-wrap.
Multi-client vs dedicated warehousing
In a multi-client warehouse, several brands share one building, one labor pool and one WMS — fixed costs are spread, peak labor flexes across accounts, and you can start with a single bay and a few hundred SKUs. A dedicated warehouse runs exclusively for you: your racking profile, your processes, your SLAs — at a fixed cost that typically only makes sense above roughly 50,000 square feet of steady demand. The honest 3PL answer is that most brands belong in multi-client space far longer than their pride suggests, and the right provider makes graduating to dedicated space a slotting exercise, not a re-platforming project.
Why near-port positioning matters
Distance from the port is money in three currencies. Drayage: a container dray from terminal to a warehouse 20 miles away costs a fraction of one hauled 200 miles inland — and turns the chassis back before per-diem starts. Time: port-adjacent receiving puts inbound stock sellable days earlier, which is the whole game in produce seasons and product launches. Duty: bonded and FTZ space only pays off when the goods can move port-to-zone without detouring through customs territory — which is exactly why our bonded and FTZ-designated buildings sit at LA, Newark, Houston, Vancouver and Montreal rather than in the middle of the map.
What a WMS-integrated 3PL actually does
“WMS-integrated” means your systems and ours stop emailing spreadsheets at each other. Orders arrive as EDI 940s or API calls, inbound shipments announce themselves as ASNs that receiving matches against, every pick and pack posts in real time, shipping confirmations return as 945s with carrier and tracking, and inventory adjustments flow back as 947sthe moment a cycle count posts. The WMS itself — Manhattan Active, Blue Yonder or Microlistics depending on the building — waves orders by carrier cut-off, sequences pick paths, and enforces lot, expiry and serial rules your compliance team will ask about later. Your inventory is queryable at any second; so is ours, because they’re the same record.
