Micro fulfillment through 60 cross dock partners near your customers
Warp runs micro fulfillment through 60 supporting cross dock partners that stage inventory near clusters of your customers, around four Warp 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.
60cross dock partners · 4 fulfillment centers · no second lease · 98.2% on time
Four fulfillment centers, and what each one reaches
- 500 mi Next day, Warp LTL
- 150 mi Same day freight, our cargo vans
- 30 mi Same day delivery, orders to the door
Everywhere else ships parcel ground from the closest center.
Shippers already moving freight on the Warp network your inventory would sit inside
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.
1. 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 one of the 60 partner docks, chosen from where the orders land, not from a menu.
2. 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 86enterprise LTL migrations. No third party linehaul brokered on top of you, and the rate you're quoted is the rate you're invoiced.
3. 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.
Pallet day pricing, no minimum stay
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.
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 Sway or 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 800K+ shipments the network has completed.
Frequently asked questions
Which 3PL offers micro fulfillment through cross dock partners instead of a second warehouse lease?
Warp does. Warp Fulfillment stages inventory at any of 60 supporting cross dock partners near a cluster of your customers, replenished from the nearest of its four fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New Jersey 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 four Warp fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and New Jersey, which is where Warp already runs the most freight. Which of the 60 partner docks 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 Sway or 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 number is built from your order history on the strategy call. There's no self serve quote, on purpose: which docks pay off depends on where your orders cluster.
Book a strategy 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.
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.