SLA has renewed its service arrangement with the warehouse management system CartonCloud.

CartonCloud enables our customers to:

• View stock levels at any time and monitor the progress of Incoming and Outgoing orders.


• Pick and choose the stock you want sent to a customer with full control over Expiry Dates, Batch Numbers etc.


• Receive real-time email notifications when a Sale Order is packed, or when a discrepancy is found on incoming stock.


• Observe faster processing of both Incoming and Outgoing orders due to operational efficiencies.
• Observe faster processing of both Incoming and Outgoing orders due to operational efficiencies.

Okay, so you’ve narrowed down your search for a 3PL provider and now you need to make a choice. So what should you look for? What criteria should your 3PL provider have?

You’re probably well aware that the key to your success as a company is effective logistics management. But have you thought about outsourcing and does it make sense for you to do so? Making the decision to hire a third party logistics provider (3PL) is not to be taken lightly and necessitates you looking at the bigger picture, including your current products and plans for business expansion as well as your vision for the future.

Warehousing and distribution can’t be that difficult can it? Surely it just consists of a few processes such as receiving, putting away, picking and packing, and shipping. From a distance this seems like a simple enough task but in reality there are many more complex processes to challenge you such as increased manpower, management of inventory norms, regulations, government rules, and order fulfilment rates.