Moving Retail Logistics Forward
Optimize your end-to-end supply chain to meet consumers when, where, and how they want to buy. Leverage our global retail logistics and supplier expertise, industry-leading technology, and multimodal services.
Specializing in retail logistics
To thrive in today’s marketplace, retail shippers must uncover new efficiencies. In a world where in-store experiences must compete with the breadth of online shopping options, reliable and agile retail supply chains are a critical component to success.
Enhance on-time performance and precision while managing daily retail compliance standards by focusing on four key outcomes: Product Accessibility, Technology, Supply Chain Flexibility, and Sustainable Growth. It’s all possible with our skilled retail experts and industry-leading technology and scale.
Benefits of working with C.H. Robinson
Product accessibility
Improve on time in full performance and gain efficiencies with custom solutions for inventory surges and out-of-stock situations. Enhance demand planning and inventory management with warehousing and fulfillment locations in key regions.
Technology
Increase supply chain transparency and visibility with industry-leading Navisphere technology. Get improved forecasting with end-to-end information aggregation and integration.
Supply chain flexibility
North America’s largest and most flexible capacity pool coupled with storage and fulfillment locations where you need them. Get end-to-end solutions designed to support new paths to market.
Sustainable growth
Get capabilities that enable growth for ever changing consumer demands. Leverage people and tools built to support growth across consumer segments and sales channels and ensure your ability to meet consumers no matter when or where they buy.
Retail logistics solutions for every segment
Wherever your customers are shopping—in store or online—apply the right retail shipping services to manage first, middle, and last mile demand without sacrificing speed or precision.
In-store
Deliver the positive shopping experiences your shoppers expect while navigating the intricacies of your specific type of retail store. After all, big box retailers have different demands than convenience stores, and seasonality impacts home improvement retailers differently than apparel retailers. We understand these nuances and can help you build strategies to support your goals.
Restaurant
Secure consistent supply for your restaurants, distributors, and operators—no matter the market conditions. Leveraging our best-in-class technology, global services, and data advantage, trust our supply chain experts to build customized solutions that accelerate your restaurant business. Gain support for the most critical areas of your business:
- Fresh produce
- Vendor management
- Purchase order management
- Special handling and equipment
- Supply chain analysis and engineering
- Final mile services
Ecommerce/Omnichannel
Create an enhanced supply chain prepared for the toughest ecommerce challenges with industry-leading technology, final mile capacity solutions, and multimodal solutions.
Leverage our team of dedicated retail experts
Get merchandise to distribution centers, stores, or homes with streamlined supply chain strategies developed especially for the retail industry by our global network of experts.
When speed to market is everything, trust your merchandise to experts who understand your business, the changing transportation marketplace, and the requirements of retail compliance programs. The long-term growth you’re looking for is possible through short-term retail supply chain process improvements led by people who aren’t afraid to think creatively.
GoGo Squeez reaches highest-ever on-time score
Watch how data-driven insights connect the dots for retail compliance by delivering on time in full, despite shorter lead times.
Related service solutions
C.H. Robinson is here to help you navigate the retail supply chain. Explore additional retail solutions and services and achieve a more efficient supply chain process.
Consolidation and fulfillment
Manage changing inventory demands wherever needed with North America’s largest consolidator. Retail specific programs including inventory fulfillment, cross-dock, and rolling consolidation.
Drop trailer
A custom approach to your supply chain optimization that goes beyond typical brokerage services. Utilize the scale of one the largest drop trailer providers in North America to maximize your network’s potential.
Cross-border
Work with local experts to streamline the complexities of cross-border shipping and optimize your global order fulfillment.
Success story: IPC Subway
“As we navigate a historically volatile market, we are rethinking how we do business. Procure IQ’s advanced analytics can help us navigate uncertainty and has been invaluable in helping us develop a new, more efficient, and cost-effective transportation-buying process, for everything from fresh food to kitchen equipment.”
–Matt Montour, Senior Director of Logistics at IPC, the purchasing cooperative for Subway® FranchisesOptimize your retail supply chain with a single, robust TMS
Increase your savings and improve your efficiency with Navisphere®, our integrated, global, multimodal technology platform built by and for supply chain experts. Whether you’re a large shipper with a complex supply chain or a small business with specialized needs, Navisphere offers the visibility and reliability you need. Reduce inventory through real-time visibility to standing and in-motion inventories, reducing raw material and finished good needs.
- Make smarter decisions on pricing and scheduling shipments, from truckload and less than truckload (LTL) to ocean and air—Navisphere® connects nearly 200,000 shippers and carriers globally.
- Minimize costly disruptions with end-to-end, real-time shipment visibility across all modes and regions.
- Measure and improve spend and performance with detailed reporting and analytics from the largest dataset in the industry.