Home Goods 3PL
Home goods take up space. Cookware sets, small appliances, bedding, and furniture arrive in large cartons, and they leave the warehouse in two very different ways: on pallets to stores and in single boxes to a customer's door. Sooner Logistics stores and ships home goods from our warehouses in Moorpark and Simi Valley, serving businesses across Ventura County and neighboring cities, from Thousand Oaks and Camarillo to Oxnard and the San Fernando Valley, and throughout Southern California. We run our own trucks for regional delivery.
We have been in business since 1973, when Curt McLaughlin started with a small truck yard in Chatsworth. Today we are an asset-based 3PL, and the team that stores your inventory also runs the trucks that deliver it around the region.
Home Goods We Store and Ship
We handle home goods from across the house, including:
- Kitchen utensils, cookware, and small appliances
- Bedding and linens
- Furniture and home accessories
Each category behaves differently in a warehouse. Appliances are heavy and dense. Bedding and linens come in sizes and colors that multiply into many SKUs. Furniture and oversized cartons need more floor space than shelf space.
Storage for Bulky and High-SKU Inventory
Our 3PL warehousing combines pallet racking with bulk floor storage, for the short term or the long term. Cartons too large for a rack can be stored on the floor, and overflow space is available when a buying season or a container arrival outgrows your own building. We have long described ourselves as a "hotel for pallets," and one customer's review says the description fits.
Every item is tracked by SKU in our warehouse management system, Extensiv, which can also track lot and serial numbers. That kind of inventory management is what keeps a queen set from shipping as a king. You can check your stock levels at any time through your own client login.
When your freight arrives, we receive it into inventory and put it away so it is ready to ship. We can also label cartons and shrink-wrap pallets before they leave the building.
Call our Home Goods 3PL Specialists at +1-805-222-2030
Shipping to Stores, Wholesalers and Customers
Most home goods brands sell through more than one channel, and each one ships differently.
Retail and wholesale orders are built on pallets, shrink-wrapped, and delivered on our own trucks, either as a full truckload or as LTL freight. We deliver dock to dock, and for locations without a loading dock, our box trucks and our 48- and 53-foot vans have liftgates. Our last mile trucking handles final deliveries to stores and businesses.
Online orders are picked, packed, and shipped by UPS or FedEx through our e-commerce fulfillment service, and we also prep and label inventory for Amazon FBA. Orders can come to us through EDI, a web API, a spreadsheet upload, or manual entry.
Imported Containers: Unloading and Receiving
A large share of home goods is made overseas and arrives by ocean container. We arrange container drayage from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach through our drayage partners. Furniture is a good example: we receive containers of chairs, couches, and other pre-built furniture, mostly from the Far East, and hold them until they ship to stores and businesses. When a container reaches our warehouse, we unload it, sort and palletize the cartons, and receive them into your inventory.
When goods need to keep moving instead of going into storage, we also offer container trans-loading and consolidation.
Planning Around Peak Season
Home goods sales climb around the holidays, and imported inventory has to land well before the selling season starts. Short-term overflow storage lets you bring stock in early without crowding your own space, then scale back once the season ends, with no long-term commitment.
Outgrowing Your Own Warehouse
Many home goods brands start out running their own storage space, then find that rent, staff, and shipping take more time than selling. Working with a 3PL hands storage, order fulfillment and delivery to a team that does it every day, so you can put that time back into your products and your customers.
If you are closing or downsizing your own warehouse, our warehouse relocation service can move your inventory into ours. We work with trusted local professionals for the racking, rigging, and equipment side of the move.
Why Sooner Logistics for Home Goods
- One point of contact from container to delivery. Drayage coordination, unloading, storage, fulfillment, and regional delivery are arranged through one team.
- Our own fleet. We run tractors with 53-foot dry vans, 48- and 53-foot vans with liftgates, box trucks with liftgates, and cargo vans.
- Family-owned since 1973. Sooner Logistics is the trading name of Sooner Express, Inc., and the second and third generations of the McLaughlin family run the business today.
- Late-model, clean-air trucks. We are an EPA SmartWay Partner.
- Two Ventura County warehouses. From Moorpark and Simi Valley, we serve Ventura County and the neighboring cities and deliver across Southern California.
Home Goods 3PL FAQs
What home goods do you handle?
We store and ship kitchen utensils, cookware, small appliances, bedding, linens, furniture, and home accessories from our warehouses in Moorpark and Simi Valley, California.
Can you deliver to a store without a loading dock?
Can you store furniture and other oversized items?
Do you prep home goods for Amazon FBA?
Can I check my inventory online?
How much inventory do I need to start?
Have a Home Goods 3PL Question or Need Our Help?
Our Home Goods 3PL Specialists will be happy to answer your questions or discuss your products.
Submit the form below or call us at +1-805-222-2030 for a free consultation.
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