3PLs by Location

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3PL stands for third-party logistics and is a common term for an outsourced fulfillment partner. 3PLs provide services ranging from storage and order processing to shipping and receiving.

It’s a common misconception that your 3PL needs to be in the same city as you. In fact, unless you need to be on-site frequently to check your merchandise, you should be open to using 3PLs all over the country. In other words, location is important, but it’s definitely not the only thing to consider when choosing a 3PL.

Third Person can help narrow down your search and pinpoint the exact fulfillment partner that’s the best fit for your needs. Get started here – it’s free!

Using Third Person saves you time and energy. Instead of spending tedious hours searching for the perfect 3PL that meets your specific needs, you hand off the process to us. We use our AI-powered algorithm to provide a personalized list of the top 10 3PLs for your business – and it only takes a few minutes to set up your profile and start connecting with 3PLs.

Connecting through Third Person is completely free for brands, but comes with real benefits:

• 3PLs prioritize brands introduced through our platform

• They receive your profile information as soon as you reach out to them, so conversations start with context

• You skip cold outreach and get directly to quoting and onboarding

• You get access to contacts who respond, because they know you're a vetted lead

• We can support you through the selection process if needed

While there is no hard and fast rule of when it’s time to outsource your fulfillment, you generally “know.” We have supported pre-launch brands to launch their business at a 3PL, and we have also supported billion-dollar brands outsourcing their fulfillment for the first time. Fulfillment can be time-consuming, complicated, and a distraction to your core business. The question we encourage you to ask yourself is, "What’s the better investment of your time?”

It only takes a few minutes to fill out your brand profile on Third Person. After that, you’ll be able to see your top fulfillment partner matches within a few seconds thanks to our AI-powered algorithm. 

We use the information you provide in your profile and combine it with information provided by the fulfillment partner to measure compatibility. This becomes a percentage score out of 100.

We generate revenue on the fulfillment partner side of things. Fulfillment partners are charged a fee when they secure a customer through our services. Brands will never be charged by us at any stage of this process!

A brand's existence on Third Person is strictly confidential. This was done intentionally to ensure the sensitivity and confidentiality of a brand's 3PL search, as well as to avoid a brand being bombarded by 3PLs wishing to work with them.

Of course, when a brand opts to connect with a 3PL directly (by messaging them through the platform), the 3PL then sees your existence, but by simply signing up, creating a profile, and viewing your results, 3PLs have zero visibility.

3PL consolidation is when multiple smaller shipments are merged into larger loads by a third-party provider to make transportation more efficient.

Multichannel fulfillment means fulfilling orders across multiple sales channels (like Amazon, Shopify, or retail stores), but each channel operates separately. Omnichannel fulfillment connects all those channels so that inventory, orders, and customer data are synced. The key difference is integration: multichannel is separate; omnichannel is unified.

Most directories overwhelm you with options that aren’t right for your business.
Our matching system scores every 3PL by:

• Industry specialization

• Order volume

• Inventory type

• Integrations

• Location

• Capabilities and service-level needs

• And many other variables

This means no more wasting time contacting warehouses that aren’t a fit — and no more getting ignored because you don’t match their ideal customer profile.