Retail & Fashion
Design a competitive advantage for your business.
The retail & fashion industry is demanding and competitive. Expeditors’ global logistics solutions are designed to help you meet those challenges. We provide established processes for a wide range of retail & fashion brands to improve their supply chain and identify where opportunities for efficiency or cost reduction.
We work with our global network and industry-leading technologies to customize retail logistics solutions built to optimize inventory, lead times, and shipping costs.
Learn more about Retail in the Modern Age
Our Customers
Making you look good
Whether a global cosmetics brand or a trending DTC startup, Expeditors has the tools and knowledge to support your needs. With our advanced technology, compliance acumen, and logistics expertise, Expeditors is an established market-leader in providing supply chain solutions to many of the leading brands in cosmetics, beauty, and personal care.
Tools and flexible solutions to succeed
With so many different products required for a project, having the necessary SKU’s stocked and available is critical for your customers. Our global network of locations will support flexible transportation needs wherever production occurs. And Expeditors single-platform can provide visibility to everything in your supply chain, including ensuring your vendors are shipping on-time and shipments are cleared and delivered without delay.
The experience and capabilities that are right for your team
Running a marathon, playing a round of golf, or a home workout each demands the right equipment for your customers and Expeditor’ experience ensures it is in the store or on their doorstep ready for the next workout or event. Expeditors is the logistics provider of choice for many of the established sportswear and athletic equipment retailers and several innovative connected-fitness brands. The global scale of Expeditors’ network and flexible supply chain solutions provides service capabilities wherever needed that meet the demands of your active customers.
"Expeditors has been great at reacting to our demands on a daily basis... They're able to work with us on specific problems that might not pertain to other clients."
Gabriel Blanchette, North American Logistics Manager of The Kooples
Our Services
- Pre-shipment purchase order and vendor management
- International transportation
- Store replenishment and direct-to-consumer fulfillment
- Upstream Fulfillment and international distribution
- Merchandise value-add services
- Customs and trade compliance
- Duty mitigation programs
- Time-critical programs
- Return logistics
- Fixtures and display solutions
- Dangerous Goods Handling (including ID8000)
Carrier Allocation & Retail
The development of Carrier Allocation began when the largest U.S. retailer was looking for ways to improve their performance of their contracted ocean carriers in meeting expected booking commitments. Learn more about how Carrier Allocation and Retail work together to provide solutions, create full visibility, and offer flexibility to customers.
Digital Twin Technology
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.
Global Transcon & Retail
For over 45 years, Expeditors has managed supply chains for retailers and brands worldwide. Expeditors specializes in performing value-added, white glove, and time definite services to ensure merchandise is picked up, handled securely, and delivered on time. These services, in addition to domestic air, ocean, and rail shipments, as well as cross-border ground transportation are what we call Transcon.
Fashion forward freight & logistics
The Kooples
Our partnership with the Kooples goes way back, but we continuously help adapt to a rapidly changing retail industry. Read more in our case study to see how we customized packing lists, optimized inventory, created storage space, and responded to priority orders for this fashion forward company.
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.
