Warehousing & Distribution | Dunavant
Streamline the warehousing and distribution needs of your company.

Warehousing & Distribution

Space and time. We have it and save it.

Through efficient logistics practices and technology, we can help you decrease inventory requirements while increasing your fulfillment rates. Currently operating facilities in Houston, TX with the flexibility to lease additional space as needed, we have the resources to meet your warehousing needs anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

OUR WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICES INCLUDE: 
 

Packaging and Consolidation

Dunavant is an efficient option for companies with diverse supplier bases. Our packing and consolidation capabilities allow multiple shipments from various vendors across all transportation modes to be received, sorted, and stored utilizing our state-of-the-art warehouse management system. Our materials handling staff will perform inspections, sorting, and consolidation customized to your needs. We offer real-time, web-based inventory tracking, allowing you to focus on your core business while we take care of all your packing services and help you to meet the most stringent requirements of domestic and international distribution.

Reverse Logistics

Our expertise and advanced technology support reverse logistics, independent of its scope. From simple returns and restocking to operating entire return facilities, warranty management, and repairs, Dunavant can help with your needs. Our systems help accurately and efficiently identify and disposition returned materials while providing the warranty and financial support necessary to ensure your record-keeping needs. We offer value-added services to assist in the disposition of scrap, including hazmat, in the most environmentally friendly and compliant manner.

Port Consolidation / Deconsolidation

Our expertise, distribution services, and advanced technology allow us to support activities at import and export ports. We offer consolidation expertise to merge vendors and search for compatible partners to help decrease your inbound freight cost. Our deconsolidation services provide you with greater transportation and inventory savings while increasing customer service. We also utilize the latest technology to increase visibility. All of these factors mean your lead times will be reduced, resulting in a leaner system and greater margins for your business.

Pick, Sort, Pack

Our advanced WMS and other specialty technologies, combined with 50 years of expertise, allow for the most efficient pick, sort, and pack processes available. Whether pallet, case, or broken case picking, our WMS, and RF-based job assignments will cut your cost, prioritize work tasks, and store your materials in the most space-efficient manner. Accurate real-time reports are always available to allow expert management of inventory and ensure order realization visibility that provides confidence to you and your customers.

Cross-Dock / Transloading

Our team of experts and sophisticated systems can help you implement advanced processes in order to optimize material flow domestically or worldwide. We can help implement such processes as cross-docking, flow-through, merge-in-transit, and even postponement processes. We possess valuable IT and cross-docking capabilities that can fulfill your company’s in-transit consolidation needs. These consolidations can reduce total freight costs, as well as the necessary activity at destination docks.

Hazmat

Our hazmat storage buildings are engineered to meet IFC and IBC requirements for H3/H4 occupancy. Our staff is trained in DOT, IMDG, and IATA regulations and offers public warehouse space for non-bulk and palletized chemical and general commodity storage. 

As third-party logistics providers, Dunavant can assure that every aspect of your hazmat warehousing is managed with peak safety and efficiency.

OUR PASADENA WAREHOUSES ARE SPECIALIZED TO STORE AND HANDLE THE FOLLOWING HAZARD CLASSES: 
  • Class 2: Gases
  • Class 3: Flammable and Combustible Liquids
  • Class 4: Flammable Solids, Spontaneously Combustible and Dangerous When Wet
  • Class 5: Oxidizing Substances
  • Class 6: Toxic Substances and Infectious Substances
  • Class 8: Corrosives
  • Class 9: Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials
DIRECT CONTACT
 
Dean Bay
Dunavant Distribution Group, Senior Vice President
281.694.0100