Micro fulfillment through 70+ warehouses near your customers
Warp runs 70+ warehouses across the US, staging inventory near clusters of your customers around fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New Jersey. Stock sits at a partner dock in the metro where orders land, replenished on Warp LTL from the nearest center, so a same day or next day promise holds without a second warehouse lease.
The four centers, and the Warp cross dock metros that stage inventory near clusters
- 500 mi Next day, Warp LTL
- 150 mi Same day freight, our cargo vans
- 30 mi Same day delivery, orders to the door
- Warp cross dock metros
- 89 metros with their own page, colored by band; larger dots are Warp cross docks. Click one.
Squares are Warp's own cross dock metros, part of a 70+ warehouse network. Supporting partner docks aren't mapped here; the ones near your customers are named on the call.
Shippers already moving freight on the Warp network your inventory would sit inside
Build your inbound and outbound stack
Stock staged near demand, replenished on Warp LTL and shipped out as parcel. Swap either leg without changing vendors.
Inbound How your pallets arrive
No 3PL in the middle of the freight. Both legs ride Warp's own network at the rate you were quoted, with no markup and no rebill after delivery.
Your inventory, in one of four centersEvery pallet scanned, timestamped and photographed at receipt.
- $0platform fee, minimum stay or per account charge
- $0rebills or markup on the freight, so the rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced
- Per daypallet pricing, so a slow month costs you what a slow month should
Outbound How your orders leave
Same dock, same account, one bill. Add a leg and nothing else changes: the storage terms hold and the software that runs it bills $0.
Your stack
Warp LTL in, Parcel out.
Price this stack on a callIt goes into the rep's brief, so the call opens on the stack you built.
How micro fulfillment works
The four fulfillment centers hold the bulk of your inventory. A partner dock holds the slice of it that one cluster of customers keeps ordering, so those orders leave from inside their own metro.
- 70+ warehouses
Your order map picks the docks
On a strategy call Warp runs your order history against the four centers and finds the clusters that sit outside every 30 mile ring. Each cluster that justifies it gets a partner dock, chosen from where the orders land, not from a menu.
- 24% lower
Pallets ride Warp LTL to the partner dock
Replenishment leaves the nearest center on Warp LTL or a full truck, audited 24% lower per pallet across 86 enterprise LTL migrations. No third party linehaul brokered on top of you, and the rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced.
Orders leave from the dock nearest the customer
Parcel ships FedEx, UPS or USPS ground and express from the partner dock. Local orders ride Warp cargo vans and box trucks. Either way the order starts its last leg inside the metro instead of crossing the country from the center.
Micro fulfillment versus a second warehouse
A second warehouse is a lease, a team and a fixed cost that has to be right about where your customers will be for the length of the term.
Minimum stay: pallet day pricing at the center and at the dock
A partner dock is priced by the pallet by the day, at the center and at the dock, so a slow month costs you what a slow month should. No software seat, no onboarding fee, no minimum pallet count to keep a rate.
Add a dock, drop a dock, as the map changes
When a cluster grows, the dock gets more pallets on the next Warp truck. When it moves, the dock is emptied and dropped with no term to run out. The centers stay where they are; the partner docks follow your customers.
Lower per pallet: the freight is ours, not brokered on top of you
Every replenishment move rides the Warp network itself, audited 24% lower per pallet across 86 enterprise LTL migrations. How the freight is included is its own page.
Built for
Brands with a cluster outside every ring
Order density in a metro that isn't Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago or New York, and a delivery promise there that a cross country parcel can't keep.
Regional replenishment without a regional warehouse
Stores or job sites in one region restocked from a partner dock on Warp vans and box trucks, while the bulk inventory stays at the center. Pallet programs for retail replenishment are on the pallet in, pallet out page.
Same day inside the four rings, next day beyond them
Inside 30 miles of a center, same day delivery is the default on Warp cargo vans; that promise is on the same day delivery page. Partner docks carry the promise into the next metro.
Micro fulfillment versus cross docking
Cross docking moves freight through; micro fulfillment keeps stock there
At a cross dock, pallets come in one door and leave out another on the next truck, with no storage in between. Warp's cross docking service is that. Micro fulfillment is the layer on top: inventory staged at the dock so orders can be picked from it near the customer.
Both run on the same 98.2% on time network
Exceptions arrive with photos attached and get tracked to resolution, and you see the storage bill before it hits, by dock, by SKU, by day. The same scan trail runs the 850K+ shipments the network has completed.
What running one of the first micro fulfillment networks taught me
By Troy Lester, Co-Founder & CRO. Built Covet Shipping, one of the first US micro fulfillment networks, sold to Jitsu; then ran parcel sortation centers with micro fulfillment operations inside them.
I built Covet Shipping, one of the first micro fulfillment networks in the US, and sold it to Jitsu. Then I ran parcel sortation centers with micro fulfillment operations inside them. The lesson that survived both companies: where the inventory sits decides the delivery cost. The carrier you pick decides the rest.
A micro fulfillment site is a cost center until it's full. Every one I opened started as a lease and a labor line waiting for volume, so I won't tell a brand to sign a second warehouse for one metro's worth of orders. Warp stages that inventory at a supporting cross dock that's already full of freight, and you pay by the pallet day.
The freight in and out was always a bigger invoice than the pick and pack, and it was always someone else's truck. That's the part Warp runs itself: replenishment rides Warp LTL from the nearest center, audited 24% lower per pallet across 86 enterprise LTL migrations, and the rate quoted is the rate invoiced.
Bring the order history to the strategy call. Which docks your inventory should sit in is drawn from where your orders already land, and drawing that map is the part of this job I've done the longest. Comparing providers first? Here's my ranking of the eight best fulfillment companies, by the freight first.
Frequently asked questions
Which 3PL offers micro fulfillment through cross dock partners instead of a second warehouse lease?
Warp offers micro fulfillment through cross dock partners instead of a second warehouse lease: it stages inventory at a supporting cross dock near a cluster of your customers, replenished from the nearest of its fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New Jersey, four of the 70+ warehouses in the network, on Warp LTL and truckload. You pay pallet day storage with no minimum stay and no platform fee, so a dock near one metro's worth of orders costs a fraction of a lease and can be dropped when the cluster moves.
How does micro fulfillment through cross dock partners work?
Three steps. Your order history shows where customers cluster outside the four centers. Pallets for that cluster ride Warp LTL from the nearest center to a partner dock in that metro and are staged there. Orders for the cluster leave from the partner dock on FedEx, UPS or USPS ground and express, or on Warp cargo vans and box trucks, instead of shipping across the country from the center.
Where are the micro fulfillment docks?
Around the Warp fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New Jersey, four of the 70+ warehouses in the network and where Warp already runs the most freight. Which partner dock your inventory uses depends on where your orders land, so the docks are chosen from your order history on a strategy call rather than listed as a menu.
How do pallets reach a micro fulfillment dock?
On Warp trucks. Inbound to the center and replenishment out to the partner dock both ride Warp LTL or a full truck, audited 24% lower per pallet across 86 enterprise LTL migrations. There's no third party linehaul brokered on top of you, and the rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced.
Can micro fulfillment support a same day or next day delivery promise?
That's the point of it. Inside 30 miles of a Warp fulfillment center, same day delivery is already the default on Warp cargo vans. Micro fulfillment extends a same day or next day promise into metros that don't justify a full fulfillment center, because the stock is already staged in the metro when the order lands.
What is the difference between micro fulfillment and cross docking?
Cross docking moves freight through a dock without storing it: pallets come in one door and leave out another on the next truck. Micro fulfillment stages inventory at the dock so orders can be picked from it near the customer. Warp runs both; the cross docking service is described on its own page, and micro fulfillment is the layer on top of it for brands that also want the inventory to sit there.
How is micro fulfillment priced?
Pallet day storage with no minimum stay and no platform fee, at the center and at the partner dock, plus Warp freight in and out at the per pallet rate you're quoted, which is the rate you're invoiced. The rates are published by center on the fulfillment page at dock cost plus 2 percent. Which docks pay off depends on where your orders cluster, and that placement is worked out from your order history on the strategy call.
Draft your proposal, then book the call
- TodayA 30 minute call. You tell us what you store and where your orders land.
- This weekA staging plan: which of your customer clusters justify a partner dock, which center replenishes each one, and a custom rate for the freight.
- First inboundYour pallets arrive on Warp trucks, scanned and photographed at receipt.
Four answers draft your proposal, all optional
Nothing here gates the call. The draft below is built from your answers and rides into the rep’s brief, so the call opens on your proposal, not on a blank page.
Fulfillment
30 min. You tell us what you store and where your orders go. We ask questions, you ask us back.
Fulfillment inside a freight network only pays off for some inventory profiles. We’d rather find out which of yours qualifies.
Who you'll meet
We’ll email your Google Meet link.
Put the inventory where the orders already are
Bring where your orders land. On a strategy call Warp finds the clusters that sit outside the four centers, picks the partner docks from your numbers, and prices the replenishment freight on its own network.