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Last week, the Transportation Marketing & Sales Association held the 2023 ELEVATE Conference in Savannah, Georgia where TMSA recognized industry leaders who are blazing their own trail and building their brand. Maggie Harvey, our Director of Marketing at The Shippers Group, was named a TMSA Trailblazer Winner for a recent TSG packaging campaign, which aimed at growing the contract packaging segment of our business. 

You’re looking for a supply chain partner who can warehouse, inventory, fill orders, and ship your goods to customers, so you issue a Request for Proposal to third-party warehousing companies capable of providing the distribution services your company needs. Potentially, thousands of pallets will be stored in the facility along with hundreds of different items (skus). Multiple truckloads and maybe even rail boxcars will be received and shipped daily. 

When partnering with a public warehouse, users expect to pay storage charges for warehousing their products within the multi-client storage and distribution facility. Storage rates are fees charged per unit for storage of products. These rates typically vary based on the number of days in inventory, the amount of times the inventory turns, the stackability of pallets, and the storage media used.

Dallas has a reputation for extreme summer heat, but even hotter is the current demand in the region for logistics services. Let’s dive into some reasons why Texas is so desirable for corporations and families, and how that is leading to historically high demand for warehousing and transportation services in Dallas and across Texas.