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Import Services manages retail supply chains from product origin to customer delivery in the UK and across Continental Europe. Our Distribution Centres are located in Southampton, the first UK port of call for container ships plying from the Far East to Northern Europe.
If you need a logistics partner to move your product to market, for the major and multiple retailers to independent stores or direct to consumer; Import Services is the optimum route.
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EFFICIENT PICKING
PIC
Picking orders in a fast moving retail operation, requires systematic accuracy, which is why Import Services invests continually in technology and new picking processes.
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pac
PAC processes all PIC’s orders ready for despatch, a highly disciplined and reliable operation.
Marshalling PIC’s electric carts, managing order segregation, scanning and recording picked items into selected shipping cartons.
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stac
STAC now oversees >50,000 pallets.
STAC is capable of reaching up easily to 7 pallet levels high using sheer power and WiFi commands to put-away and retrieve pallets. Although STAC is robust, he is also surprisingly flexible, moving within narrow aisle racked areas with ease.
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trac
Information flow is now central to the new world of retail logistics. TRAC gives you the ability to access, monitor, download and decide in real time via the Web.
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We’re delighted to be working with Import Services, having seen first-hand the advantages of their port-centric location and in-depth retail knowledge
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Richard Wells
University Games + Paul Lamond
‘Our expanding multi-channel networks demand speed to market from bonded DC facilities, this criteria was met by Import Services.’
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Jodie Thorpe
Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Little Birdy Group
“Our previous experience with other logistics firms made us focus upon the importance of finding a contractor with a management team which can maintain a true ‘hands on’ approach”.
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Mike Weiss
Operations Manager, Melissa & Doug
“Our decision to work with Import Services is based on their impressive knowledge of UK retail logistics which, combined with web enabled systems and their port-centric location in Southampton, presented us with a compelling business case”.
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Mark Hyndman
Alpha Animation
‘The strength of our relationship with Import Services is based on their information systems.’
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Jon More
Learning Resources
“You have provided us with a robust start to the year with the consistent shipping of high numbers, your output was hard, fast and relentless, thank you very much.”
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Darren Runnette
Art Marketing
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