Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation Program (MVC)
Serving major retailers (including Walmart), wholesalers and foodservice distributors.
Velocities™ MVC is a win/win cold supply chain fulfillment program. Food manufacturers share truckload savings when shipping smaller, higher frequency orders; retailers receive scheduled, consolidated truckload deliveries consistent with their continuous fulfillment strategies.
Velocities™ MVC is the core service of the Hanson Chicago Consolidation Center, our 14,500,000 cu. ft. temperature-controlled facility located just easy of Chicago at the crossroads of I-80/94 and I-65.
How does Velocities™ MVC work?
Hanson builds your orders from inbound and forward inventory at the Hanson Chicago Consolidation Center, then combines your shipments with those of other vendors to create a more efficient truckload for scheduled delivery to the same retailer. Value added services, such as mixing and specific pallet configurations are available.
Velocities™ improves your fulfillment strategy and streamlines your cold supply chain process while reducing or eliminating higher cost LTL shipments.
Vendor Benefits
- Ride with other vendors to gain benefits of shipping full truckloads
- Control transportation costs
- Along with better service, enjoy cost saving alternative over traditional LTL
- Access to 4 distribution networks serving major retailers (including Walmart), wholesalers and foodservice distributors
- Eliminate manual tasks like scheduling appointments, add-ons and due date changes
- Meet the purchase order requirements of your retail and food service customers more profitably
- Leverage visibility and electronic ordering technologies
- Utilize Hanson Transportation Management services for truckload replenishment
Retailer Benefits
- Reduce lead time on vendor orders
- Reduce truck door congestion with consolidated truckload deliveries
- Reduce inventory carrying costs by ordering out of vendor's account
- Improve on-time delivery and purchase order compliance
- Increase delivery frequency as needed
- Increase visibility through integrated TMS and WMS
- Faster, more flexible service recovery capability, i.e. fewer out-of-stocks
- Systems integrations, i.e. EDI