eCommerce Fulfillment and FBA Prep in Los Angeles, CA
MyFBAPrep 3PL Los Angeles
Our strategic warehouse locations in California place your inventory close to key transportation routes and consumer centers for efficient inventory placement, optimal fulfillment locations, and seamless logistics services.
With more than 10 million residents in LA county alone, having a warehouse and distribution center in Los Angeles is a must for most eCommerce businesses. Opting for a 3PL Los Angeles warehouse means getting the space and distribution capabilities you need – without paying for local infrastructure and setup.
In addition, with a strategic location near the Port of LA and Port of Long Beach, a 3PL Los Angeles warehouse allows for seamless imports from Asia and distribution to your warehouse network across the United States. Your MyFBAPrep 3PL can handle those inbound shipments, prepare them for distribution, and handle freight across the U.S.
Partnering with a 3PL service provider in Los Angeles gives you access to port, local markets and local distribution, and a range of software and technology like real-time inventory and shipping tracking.
Advantages of Using Our
3PL Los Angeles Warehouse
Our Los Angeles warehouse leverages the region’s massive market, access to freight corridors, and inbound shipments from the busiest port in the United States.
Fast Delivery Across LA
LA County is home to over 10 million residents. A local 3PL Los Angeles warehouse and distribution center means you can serve that market quickly and with fast and low-cost shipping. Your Los Angeles 3PL can offer pick and pack and potentially direct-to-consumer delivery or handover to the carrier, so customers always get orders ASAP.
Access to Major Transportation Hubs
Los Angeles is in the middle of multiple major freight corridors, giving you easy access to international imports and national distribution. That includes the Port of LA and Long Beach, allowing for imports from Asia which your 3PL can directly break down into pallets for FBA or your own warehouse network. You also get proximity to highways, rail lines and airports, for reliable and fast distribution to your network across the U.S.
Efficient Distribution
Switching to a 3PL means bringing expertise into the mix, with route planning, route optimization, and even load times planned to reduce costs at every step. That’s true whether you’re importing goods or distributing them across the U.S., your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse will help you optimize and reduce timelines and costs from receiving to distributing to your entire warehouse network.
Relationship and Network Opportunities
As one of the busiest tech and eCommerce regions in the world, LA is a great place to have a warehouse and a distribution center. With a 3PL Los Angeles warehouse, you get access to networks of warehouses, carriers, fleets, and other service providers that can all help you conquer your market.
Focus on Core Business
With MyFBAPrep 3PL Los Angeles warehouses, you get a company focused on building and delivering great logistics services. We don’t add logistics to support our primary business, we invest our capital in creating and delivering logistics because that is our core business. You benefit from software, expertise, infrastructure, and relationships all built around end-to-end supply chain and logistics.
Improved Flexibility and Scalability
Your MyFBAPrep 3PL Los Angeles warehouse scales up and down based on needs. With millions of square feet of available warehouse space, you can scale local inventory as needed. Whether that’s scaling up to support imports from Chinese manufacturers before prep and distribution for consumer fulfillment or inventory intended directly for consumers, MyFBAPrep can scale with your needs.
Increased Efficiency
With local access to ports, central distribution to California from Los Angeles, and integrated systems to ensure everything works together seamlessly, a 3PL Los Angeles warehouse offers operational efficiency. You’ll see reduced local cost of delivery, improved shipping optimization, and improved delivery timelines. You’ll also get inventory management and optimization complete with tracking across all your distributed warehouses so you stay in control.
Import Center
The Port of LA is the major inbound port for goods manufactured in most of Asia. That minimizes shipping time, improves processing time at port, and gives you a central location to break down inbound shipments and prepare them for distribution. Plus, with a significant local market, LA makes sense as a primary inbound distribution center.
We invested in 100+ warehouses to give you all the advantages of a worldwide logistics network.
Services at Our 3PL Los Angeles Warehouse
Receiving
LA is a major inbound port and it’s important that your 3PL be able to receive goods. That can mean brokering customs, handling customs paperwork, then inspecting goods as they move into inventory.
Prep, Labeling, and Packaging
Your Los Angeles warehouse should be able to prepare goods for shipment into FBA, DTC, or other sales channels. That involves breaking goods down into customer-ready packaging, providing labels, and doing quality inspections. This means that once your goods arrive, everything is handled right in one warehouse.
Transportation Services
Your 3PL should be able to handle inbound and outbound freight, negotiate carrier contracts, and offer shipment and route optimization, load planning, and fleet negotiations. In some cases, your 3PL will have its own fleet to transport cargo from the port of Los Angeles and to local receiving centers and from there, to distributed warehouses to reduce total costs.
Distribution Services
Breaking down and distributing inbound shipments to a geographically distributed network of warehouses can save you costs and reduce cost of final fulfillment to customers. Your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse should be able to offer this service including a network of warehouses across the country.
Fulfillment Services
With more than 10 million people in LA county and 39 million in the state, your LA warehouse must offer DTC fulfillment. That means your 3PL needs a carrier network and options to transfer inventory to carriers as orders are placed. This means you should look for pick and pack, carrier integration, labeling, and any bundling and kitting services you need before the product changes hands to the customer.
Reverse Logistics
If your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse is serving as the center of distribution across the West Coast, it has to handle reverse logistics. With MyFBAPrep, you get reverse logistics complete with prepaid shipping labels, return shipment, inbound inspection, and repackaging, shipment to repair, or disposal services as necessary. This service makes it easy and cost-effective to accept returns from across the West Coast.
3PL Los Angeles Warehouse and Storage Services
Your 3PL should offer a local warehouse where you can store goods and inventory as needed. These warehouses can serve as inventory storage before they go direct-to-consumer, or before they need to go into FBA, or another marketplace or retail store to replenish stock. Your ideal warehouse location depends on your unique needs, but your 3PL may offer transport services between regions.
Personalize Your Logistics
Our 3PL Los Angeles warehouse can offer dozens of services. MyFBAPrep can tailor your 3PL package to include exactly what you need.
Things to Consider When Looking for a 3PL Los Angeles Provider
Los Angeles 3PLs can offer a range of services, solutions, and offerings. As a major import hub and an important commerce junction, LA is home to dozens of 3PL providers. Make a list of your requirements and reviewing options to select a great fit for your needs.
Location and Distribution Networks
Your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse has to offer local location benefits as well as distribution across your network.
- Optimal warehouse location considering your import and transit needs
- Fleet or carrier network to distribute goods across your warehouses
- Warehouse network for geographic inventory distribution
- Carrier relationships to reduce costs of delivery
Cost Structures and Transparency
It’s critical that you be able to predict costs and manage them in a way that aligns with your finance goals.
- Transparent or flat-rate pricing per service (e.g., things like cost per unit/pallet for QA inspections should be transparent so you know what costs will be)
- Clear cost predictions and cost caps
- Alerts and communication when costs go over agreements
- No hidden fees
Import Services
Whether you’re manufacturing your own products or importing from a distributor, LA is one of the busiest import ports in the United States. You need support for receiving goods.
- Customs and claims brokerage
- Customs expertise for outbound shipments
- Transport services
- Pallet breakdown and goods QA
- Repackaging and consumer packaging services
- Sort, prep, and labeling
Compliance and Security Measures
If you import goods, maintain costly inventory, or have compliance regulations to maintain, your 3PL has to offer assurance and compliance.
- Certifications and licensing aligning with your inventory needs
- Basic warehouse security to prevent theft
- Quality controls to prevent goods spoilage and damage
- Quality assurance on security
Customer Support and Communication
Communication makes or breaks a business relationship and that becomes more critical when you suddenly have thousands of moving pieces of inventory to account for.
- Personalized service and a customer service agent assigned to your account
- A history of good customer service
- Real time data availability and a data dashboard
- Responsiveness to customer support queries from the start
Software and Technology
Your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse can boost your tech stack with the addition of tooling to manage inventory, warehousing, and transport.
- Integrated technology with a central dashboard for better data visibility
- Real-time inventory tracking across geo-locations
- TMS for insight into shipping routes, timelines, and arrival times
- WMS for insight into inventory in your warehouses
- Integrates into your existing tech stack
Why Choose MyFBAPrep?
MyFBAPrep comes with a national warehouse network and global fulfillment network. Our 50+ fulfillment centers offer 85 million+ square feet of warehouse space, complete with pick and pack, sort, QA, labeling, packaging, and fulfillment capabilities. Our vast network means we can leverage economies of scale to offer cost-and-operational efficiencies at every stage of your supply chain.
Professional Logistics Services
Whether you want to break down inbound shipments and prepare them for Amazon fulfillment, store your own inventory for direct-to-consumer delivery, or capitalize on a distribution network across the USA, MyFBAPrep has you covered. Our deep expertise and years of experience in eCommerce means we can offer professional support at every stage of the supply chain.
Customized Logistics Solutions
Scale your 3PL Los Angeles services to your needs, with fully customizable solutions. That means warehousing, transport, pick and pack, packaging, FBA prep, and other services are all scalable and tailored to your individual needs – so you pay for exactly what you need and no more.
Reliable Partnerships
From local relationships across LA to a vast network of partners across the globe, MyFBAPrep can help you move goods wherever you need to go. Our partner network means you get the tools, rates, and services you need when you need them – and at the best rate we can negotiate.
Innovative Solutions
MyFBAPrep invests in logistics as our core service. That means you get the best in personnel and expertise, software including automation and AI, and combinations of tools to optimize every part of your logistics. We invest in, build, and test the best solutions so you benefit from our technology.
Expertise and Extras
Fulfillment is more than shipping and warehousing. Your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse is important. But warehouse management, cargo shipments, packaging, QA, reverse logistics, warehouse insights, automation, and other services can add the value that truly helps you make the most of 3PL. With MyFBAPrep, your 3PL Los Angeles warehouse comes complete with everything you need to optimize your logistics.
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