Understanding Direct-to-Consumer (DTC)

There are B2B companies–those businesses providing services and commodities to other businesses–and there are B2C companies that provide services and commodities to individual customers. Or are they DTC companies?OverviewIf you’re a supplier, you’ve probably been asked by fellow suppliers and corporate buyers if you are B2B or B2C. What about DTC, which is being talked about more and more? Sometimes …

ASW Is One of the 50 smartest companies in NE Ohio

October 5, 2020ASW has been named as one of the 50 smartest companies in the Northeast Ohio region and CEO André Thornton has been recognized as a top executive. ASW and Thornton were honored at the 2020 Corporate College Smart 50 Awards on October 27. The Corporate College Smart 50 Awards are hosted by Smart Business. Since 2014, the Northeast …

Why Transitioning to DTC with an Ecommerce Store Makes Sense for Your CPG Company

If you’re in the CPG industry and you’re not engaged in selling direct-to-consumer (DTC), you could be missing out. Mass market and niche retailers and CPG companies know their bread and butter has always been establishing, nurturing, and strengthening consumer loyalty. With greater reliance on ecommerce, however, maintaining customer loyalty has grown more tenuous for companies that do not have …

Demand for Warehousing & Distribution

August 6, 2020Swell in Ecommerce Sales Fuels Demand for Warehousing and Distribution ServicesThe demand for warehousing has been increasing. The Wall Street Journal reported an increase in new leases or renewals of warehouse space by 43% just between April and May and year-to-date, a nearly 3% increase in warehouse leasing as compared to the first half of 2019. The rapid …

US Distribution Center for Industrial Lights

Business challenge: A manufacturer of LED, HD, halogen, and Xenon driving lights needed a partner to set up warehousing and distribution services on its behalf, while it focused on launching an aggressive national sales plan. ASW’s solution: ASW set up a single-source, full-service U.S. distribution center (DC) that has grown with market sales. This DC is the sole DC serving …

Excellence in Cross Dock Operations

Achieving “best in class” performance is a career-long pursuit in logistics and distribution because the latest accomplishment becomes the new floor for benchmarking. The same is true for Cross Dock operations, a model favored by retail and other industries that have one goal in mind: to decrease inventory levels.The traditional supply chain model typically holds larger amounts of inventory and …

Value-Added Distribution Services

Business challenge: A CPG manufacturer of innovative laundry care products experienced trouble with its logistics operations, getting product properly kitted, packaged, stored, and distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada to retail customers (grocery, pharmaceutical, mass merchant stores), and online consumers. Additionally, they did not have access to real-time inventory. The company had multiple manufacturing locations and utilized several warehouses in …

Crises Response Case Study

Business challenge: A plastics resin broker contacted ASW in regards to a crisis situation. Two bulk hopper cars were involved in a derailment accident and were rolled over onto their sides, spilling plastic resin onto the ground in North Jersey. ASW’s solution: ASW arranged for the spilled product to be safely retrieved—preventing contamination from spreading—and had it transported to another …