If you’re an Australian e-commerce company considering ways to upgrade your supply chain, you may might be considering third-party logistics, or 3PL.

3PL is a popular way fast-growing retailers use to outsource their supply chain so its scalable and more cost-effective.

Originally, the role of services like 3PL Melbourne was to offer transportation and warehousing of a retailer’s goods. When a customer order arrived, we’d pick it, pack it and send it off. While we still offer this fulfilment service today, 3PL Melbourne is now a much more sophisticated logistics partner.

Our range of 3PL services includes IT integration (into WooCommerce, Shopify and other big eCommerce platforms, global services, order fulfillment and inventory management, customer service, returns, shipping, freight and a wide range of support services.

One of the main advantages of using 3PL Melbourne is that we are scalable on short notice and it’s cheaper to use our workforce than to directly hire your own.

Because of this, coupled with faster shipping options available, we have helped entrepreneurs everywhere to expand their retail businesses much faster.

In our next blog post, we’ll cover off the benefits of using 3PL Melbourne as your third party logistics partner, so stay tuned!