Retail Connect

In the retail market, getting your product on the retailer's shelf at the right time and in the right condition is essential to growing your business. Ingram Micro Logistics is your retail "go-to-market" expert, shipping to over 10,000 retail locations daily. From the time you sign a retail agreement, we can help you meet sales goals and retail program requirements, including:

• Retailer program and routing guide compliance
• Invoice and order consolidation
• Fill rate management
• Consignment and contract inventory
• Merchandising
• Product launch and replenishment
• New Retailer ramp up
• Retailer customer service
• Accounts Receivable Management/credit and collections management

Benefits

Efficient Supply Chain

• Faster order to delivery cycles
• Improved inventory management
• Reduced stockouts and damaged goods
• Improved supply chain visibility and reporting

Enhanced Retailer Relationships

• Reduced retailer compliance fees
• Increased shelf presence with retailers
• Improved sales performance

Services

Retailer Routing Guide Compliance
At Ingram Micro, we ship to more than 10,000 retailer locations daily. As a result, we are experts in packaging and shipping your product to comply with retailer requirements. We can help you manage your shipments according to retailers' routing guides, reducing fines and improve your sales. With our experience, we can advise you on routing guide components:

• Choice of carriers for shipments
• Palletization and unitization requirements
• Shipping, customs, receiving, bar coding, and labeling requirements
• Communications and rules of engagement

Invoice And Order Consolidation
Invoices and orders can be consolidated by order or across multiple manufacturers to save processing time and reduce freight costs.

Fill Rate Management
Visibility to inventory enables clients to manage fill rate to meet retailer and web customer requirements.

Consignment And Contract Inventory
We help clients manage multiple types of stock, depending on retailer requirements. We monitor stock levels to optimize inventory turns while balancing total inventory costs. Clients can ship to multiple customers from a single pool of inventory:

• Your inventory in Ingram Micro Logistics' contract facility
• Consigned inventory from your suppliers
• Ingram Micro distribution inventory, featuring products from over 2,000 technology and electronics manufacturers

Merchandising
Our product packaging and merchandising services support your brand and marketing programs. Services include labeling, kitting, "clamshelling", and display assembly, to support promotional events and meet retailer requirements.

• Display builds: Pallet, tray, and floor
• Labeling -- Security, Retail
• Bundling
• Clamshelling
• Component and materials procurement
• Kitting and bundling
• Package design
• Final assembly
• Rework
• Hard bundling and assortment packaging

Case Studies

View case studies detailing how Ingram Micro Logistics helps to improve distribution of products to retail chains throughout the United States and Canada.
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