Contract Warehousing
We offer contract warehousing as an attractive alternative for companies seeking to out-source their warehousing and distribution functions. Our service allows customers to focus their attention on the core competencies of their business.
Romark’s unique approach to setting up a contract warehousing model gives you the flexibility you need to ensure cost-effective warehouse operations are established and risks are shared.
Our 50 years of operational warehousing success can provide you:
- Lower labor costs
- Reduced exposure to Worker’s Compensation and lawsuits
- A reduction in the administrative burdens associated with managing a large labor force
- Detailed dashboard and KPI (key performance indicators) metrics
- A Total Quality Management approach to distribution functions
- Increased opportunities to capture and control costs
- Best in Industry practices
Operational Model
We have established a proven operational start-up model that systematically takes our customers from ideas to successful implementation. Our model is based on the following steps:
- Design -- Develop goals, objectives and desired outcomes
- Model -- Construct proposal with opportunities for improvement
- Assemble -- Set up team to define all warehousing functions
- Test -- Evaluate assumptions against processes and confirm findings
- Implement -- Go live with plan, allocate the space and train the labor
- Review -- Quantify results and report against desired outcomes
Pricing Structure
Contract warehousing pricing is customized to each customer and can include fee structures such as:
- Cost plus pricing/ management fee
- Key performance indicator’s (KPI’s) incentive payments
- Combination of fixed & variable programs
- Shared savings model
- Real Estate Partnership
Facilities
- High cubed rack environment
- Currently managing locations of up to 40 ft.
- Double deep-narrow aisle; high density storage
- VNA (very narrow aisle); very high density storage
- Food-grade warehousing meeting AIB standards
- Temperature (38 degrees F to 65 degrees F) and humidity
controlled environments; ambient storage - Rail sidings
- Sprinkler systems exceed factory mutual standards
- ICC lights & locks
- Secured trailer parking
Sanitation
Our top priority is to protect the integrity of your products. Since we are a food inventory expert, cleanliness is an essential value of Romark Logistics.
- Our sanitation programs exceed the highest standards of the industry
- Full-time janitorial staff supervised by a full-time, licensed and certified Sanitation Manger
- Our 18-inch rodent barrier around the perimeter of every warehouse is maintained by our staff and an outsourced pest control specialist twice a week
- Our sanitation staff conducts daily visual audits to prevent harborage problems
- Our on-staff maintenance team handles painting, rack repairs, dock repairs and general maintenance
- We have never failed a customer sanitation or quality assurance audit
Security
- On-site security management, including site and video surveillance
- Central station monitored alarm systems
- Guard controlled gates, 24/7
- Digital imaging of transport drivers and documentation
- Controlled access using biometric and keyless technology
- Superior facility security ratings which has reduced insurance costs for our customers
- Fire system- ERS sprinklers