One of the most consequential calls a growing brand makes is whether to keep running its own warehouse or hand fulfillment to a third-party provider — and it’s a decision too often made on instinct or inertia rather than numbers.
What Gets Analyzed
A full financial and operational comparison: labor costs and availability, occupancy and lease terms, equipment and technology investment, transportation costs, inventory carrying costs, management overhead, and the industrial real estate picture — measured against what a competitive 3PL structure would actually cost and deliver.
How It Runs
This isn’t a generic build-vs-buy framework. Your actual cost structure, volume trajectory, and service requirements drive the model, benchmarked against real current 3PL market pricing — not a rule of thumb.
What You Get Back
A clear recommendation with the numbers behind it. Sometimes the answer is outsource. Sometimes it’s stay in-house and fix specific inefficiencies instead. The analysis is built to be right either way, not to justify a predetermined answer.