
Retail
Link to a supply chain that delivers the goods and a competitive advantage.
The retail industry is demanding and competitive. Expeditors’ global logistics solutions are designed to help you meet those challenges while achieving your goals across sales channels. We help a wide range of retail brands to improve their supply chain through an established process beginning with assessing current programs, we work to identify where opportunities for efficiency or cost reduction exist. Then, utilizing best practices learned from extensive experience across retail sectors, our global scale and network, and industry-leading technologies, custom-tailored retail logistics solutions are built to optimize inventory, lead times, and shipping costs.

Our Customers

Our Services
- Pre-shipment purchase order and vendor management
- International transportation, including direct-to-store
- Store replenishment and direct-to-consumer fulfillment
- Upstream Fulfillment and international distribution
- Merchandise value-add services, including labeling, tagging, and quality control
- Customs and trade compliance, including HTS classification, First Sale, and Duty Drawback
- Duty mitigation programs, including Free Trade Zone (FTZ) warehousing
- Time-critical programs for samples, new product launches, and press shoots
- Returns logistics, including receipt, disposition, shipping, and disposal
- Fixtures and display solutions for store expansion, remodels, or closures

Case Study: Bose Fixtures and Displays
When faced with several large projects for outfitting displays inside multiple large, national warehouse retailers, Bose needed the support of a provider that has the network, resources, and expertise to manage projects varying in size, the flexibility to work around store hours for deliveries, and capabilities for value-added services as necessary.
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Turn Opportunities Into Wins
We serve a wide range of retailers and brands first by assessing current programs to see where opportunities exist. Then we introduce best practices, greater efficiencies, current analytics, and creative solutions that can optimize inventory, reduce shipping costs, and streamline administration—all to help you get a step ahead of the competition. And stay there.

Retail and Living Model
Our retail customers rely on our experience and creativity to model solutions that raise the performance of their supply chain network. By using our Living Model service, a digital twin technology, retailers can identify, model, and measure emerging opportunities of the best vantage point for their supply chain action.
When combining the retail industry with the Living Model, Expeditors raises retail companies' analytic capabilities to new levels, allows retailers to monitor their supply chain performance, and offers you the advantage to redesign your supply chain in a risk-free way. Learn how retail customers are using the Living Model to redesign their retail supply chain.
Ocean: LCL Consolidation & How Retail Stays Afloat
Less than Container Load (LCL) consolidation has been gaining a lot of traction lately as a way to continue the movement of goods while the ocean market faces container shortages, events impacting global trade like the Suez Canal blockage, and overall strain on supply chains. Expeditors' Manager of LCL and Network Planning Brian Murphy expands on LCL, while Director of Retail Vertical Bryan Ransford shares how the retail industry is using LCL to adjust to trends changing their products and access to end customers.
