Custom Solutions for Your Problems

We are experts in managing shipping, logistics, and warehousing, protecting you from the (possibly enormous) risks of shipping failure. Even the costs of disorganization in shipping can be incredible, so we’ve developed systems that ensure that your operation is as efficient and reliable as possible.

And, occasionally, everyone has to transport something unusual; something really large, heavy, fragile, or just extremely complex. We handle that, too. When the situation seems impossible, we know the right questions to ask to make “the impossible” happen with ease.

Managed Freight

Managing freight is as much about the management of people and information as it is the movement of goods. An expertly managed freight operation makes a company much more efficient and profitable, minimizes an enormous area of potential customer dissatisfaction, and keeps your operation running as smoothly as possible.

Managing freight expertly requires a highly synchronized system so that the three main players—people, information, and goods—are able to interoperate at peak efficiency. Because errors in freight management can have exceedingly high and hidden costs, the system needs to be flawless. People need to be operating within a framework that supplies and routes information to exactly the right people at the right time. This enables the avoidance of errors and the proactive resolution of problems when they do occur.

When you have a system like this working for you, your customers know exactly what to expect and when, you are informed as to the status of all of your incoming and outgoing goods, and all of the key players in your supply chain have just the right information at the right time.  Further, you avoid the hidden costs of incoming freight handled by vendors and the sky-high costs of dealing with a customer upset due to a late or damaged delivery.

At Anderson we have over 30 years of running highly efficient and reliable freight management systems.  We know the risks and how to mitigate them; we know what systems work best in which environments; and, we know how to keep your business running at peak efficiency.

• Overall shipping and logistics management (outsourced shipping management)
• Inbound procurement
• Truck load and LTL shipping services and brokerage services

Logistics

Sometimes problems just appear complex. You have to ship 1000 new customer packages to 1000 unique addresses and find the most reliable and cost-efficient way to do it, or send new office set ups to 200 new employees and have them delivered on time, or you have to move an entire factory from New York to Nevada and have it arrive in pristine condition. We handle these kinds of problems everyday. We are experts. When it comes to the logistics of shipping and transport, we’ll take that complex problem and turn it into a smooth-running seamless operation that decreases your stress, reduces your risk, and increases your reliability and customer image.

• Custom solutions for unique problems
• We’ll handle even the most difficult problems
• Asset management                                                                                                                  

Specialty Shipping

When something is too large, too heavy, too complex, or too fragile to leave to a “normal” shipping company, Anderson is here to handle it, professionally and expertly. We’ve moved MRI machines across country, entire laboratories around the world, and tractors across states. If you have a “problem” shipment, call us and your “problem” won’t be a problem anymore.

• Domestic
• International
• US Customs brokerage or clearance
• Oversized
• Over weight
• Delivery and/or pickup to and from anywhere
• First mile/last mile and white glove
• Packing, crating, inside collect and deliver
• Residential pick up and delivery
• Time sensitive                                                                                                                             

Trade Show Asset Management

Even a small number of tradeshow booths that need to be in a few different national shows a year can represent an enormous headache in terms of management to ensure that everything arrives in the right place at the right time. There’s nothing worse than arriving at a show and discovering that the wrong booth was sent or, worse, that no booth was sent. One of Anderson’s specialties is handling the frequent change orders that are typical when managing your trade show assets. From storage to delivery to return, with Anderson you’re always confident that your booths are at the right place at the right time.

• Comprehensive tradeshow booth management
• Storage, shipment, return, globally
• Management for increasing cost-efficiency                                                                    

Storage

Anderson manages your storage and warehousing needs around the globe. And beyond just storing your materials, we also offer pick and pack services, so you don’t have to worry about your goods arriving complete, on time, and at the right place.

 

• Warehousing
• Fulfillment services
• Pick, pack, and ship