3PL Services

Outsourcing is a viable option for companies for many reasons- increase shareholder value, reduce costs, business transformation, improve operations, gain competitive advantage, improve capabilities, increase sales, improve service, reduce inventory, increase inventory turns, mitigate capital investment, improve cash flow, turn fixed costs into variable costs.

Coastal has developed customized 3PL solutions for small companies and for Fortune 500 companies. The solution can be for a specific need or a comprehensive solution. An example of Coastal's capabilities in this area involves a large customer that had no systems or tools to manage its supply chain; Coastal provided a transportation program including route optimization, order processing, owner operator settlements, Motor Carrier payments, and on line electronic tools becoming a truly multi-service provider of outsourced logistics.

Coastal offers Contract Logistics in warehousing, consolidation, order fulfillment, distribution and transportation management.

4PL Services

Companies that contract their logistical operations to two or more specialist firms and hire another specialist firm to coordinate the activities of the third parties, create a 4PL solution.

Coastal, with world supply chain experience, can provide customers various solutions to take control of their supply chains. Coastal can structure the relationship and the process in a way that best meets the requirements of the customer, rather than the customer having to accept the outsourcing the provider has to offer.

Coastal's 4PL services integrate the competencies of third party logistics (3PL) providers, asset based providers, leading edge consulting films and technology providers. Such alliances leverage the skill sets, strategies, technology and global reach, which would have otherwise taken years to duplicate.

Globalization is expected to strengthen the demand for 4PL due to the substantial lifting of market barriers and import tariffs. Suppliers require a vast network of global logistic providers that can successfully integrate processes and information across geographical boundaries.