Warehousing for Consumer Goods & Ecommerce Brands

Warehousing is the storage half of logistics: receiving your inbound freight, counting it in, putting it away in a known location, keeping the inventory record accurate while it sits, and releasing it again when you need it out. It stops at the warehouse door — picking and packing individual customer orders is fulfillment, which is a separate service.

Inbound receiving and count verification, putaway to pallet or shelf locations, the storage itself charged on the space occupied, inventory records by SKU and location, and outbound release — retrieval, staging and loading onto the truck or carrier you nominate.

Yes. Palletized goods are stored in rack positions or floor-stacked where the packaging allows it, and billed on the positions occupied. Loose cartons and non-palletized inventory can be received and shelved instead, or palletized on arrival if you'd rather store it that way.

Yes. Most inbound arrives straight from a manufacturer, importer or freight forwarder rather than from you. Send us the packing list or ASN ahead of the delivery and we'll book the dock, count it in against the paperwork and report shortages or damage.

Short-term, seasonal and overflow storage are quoted the same way as long-term: on the space occupied and how long it's held. Any minimum term or minimum space is set per account, so tell us the volume and the dates and we'll quote against them rather than against a standard package.

Yes — bulk stock, seasonal buys and container arrivals can sit in storage and then be moved into pick-face when you need it fulfilled. Storage and fulfillment run out of the same buildings, so inventory doesn't have to be shipped anywhere to switch from one to the other.

Yes, and you can take either on its own. Some accounts only store inventory with us and ship it out by the pallet; others store bulk and have us pick and pack their ecommerce orders from it. Both run on the same inventory record.

Warehousing is about inventory: receive, put away, store, count, release. Fulfillment is about orders: pick the items a customer bought, pack them, buy a label, ship the parcel and handle the return. Warehousing charges follow space and time; fulfillment charges follow orders and units.

Yes. Holding stock in a U.S. warehouse — what overseas sellers often call an overseas warehouse — means domestic delivery to your U.S. customers instead of shipping each order from abroad. We receive the container, store the goods and release or fulfill them from Southern California.

No. We receive goods once they have cleared and arrived at the warehouse. Customs brokerage and international freight are handled by your broker or forwarder, and we'll coordinate the delivery appointment with them.

Stock is recorded by SKU and location, with on-hand and available counts visible to you, so a pallet has an address rather than being somewhere in the building. Movements are recorded as they happen — receipts, putaway, releases and adjustments.

Through partner warehouses in the Los Angeles, Ontario and Riverside corridor in Southern California. IDCEA staffs and coordinates the operation; we do not own the buildings, and we'd rather say so than imply facilities we don't operate.

Yes — the Riverside and Ontario side of the Inland Empire is where most of the storage capacity we work with sits, which is also where the I-10 and I-15 outbound lanes run. Our office address is in Riverside.

Send the volume — pallets or cubic feet, whether it's palletized, roughly how long you need to hold it, and what inbound looks like. Storage-only enquiries are quoted from those numbers. The 3PL cost calculator is built around monthly order volume, so it fits better once fulfillment is part of the picture.