As an e-commerce platform, selling our own brand, we are as many small business owners
- resource-driven and with limited resources. Every minute that we don't have to spend worrying
about logistics, supply chain management, transportation solutions, inventory...is valuable
time that we can spend growing our brand. We embarked on finding a transportation solutions
provider and supply chain management partner and came upon Averitt...and have been doing
business with them now for going on five years. And the relationship has been remarkable.
It is without question that our relationship with Averitt has allowed us to direct resources
to the core areas that have helped grow our business over 200% year over year for two
consecutive years. Probably the single greatest asset that we've
discovered is we have single-source point of contact for all of our needs, including
booking, customs clearance, intermodal, LTL service, we also employ Averitt for warehousing
and B2B (business-to-business) fulfillment and have found the competency and the professionalism
to be unparalleled. We did try a couple other solutions, some
very large companies and found that we just didn't enjoy the same level of service that
we've enjoyed with Averitt. The Averitt solution, when compared against
other people that we looked at to provide services, not only handled our transportation
issues and our supply chain management directly from the manufacturers we use in China, it
also allowed us the flexibility to use warehousing solutions in the United States based in close
proximity to Amazon warehouses. The cost benefit has been extraordinary. Shipping
from warehouses that are located near the largest Amazon warehouses has made our transportation
costs going from our storage facility with Averitt populating into Amazon from a B2B
standpoint, drop dramatically. It's really been beneficial.