In retail, the loading dock decides everything: miss your time slot at the central warehouse or the store and you wait – and the shelf stays empty. Speed Logistics delivers store networks, central warehouses and marketplaces on schedule: pre-notified, in the agreed slot, with live GPS tracking and proactive arrival notification.
Whether food, fashion or electronics – we combine plannable store logistics with the speed of an express freight service. You receive the fixed-price quote within a few hours, and our personal dispatch team is available 24/7 whenever a promotion is brought forward or a shelf runs empty.
Store delivery with time slots and pre-notification
Central warehouses and retail chains work with fixed delivery slots and mandatory pre-notification. We handle the booking in your time-slot systems, keep the slots through realistic route planning and deliver with complete paperwork – from a single replenishment run by van to a full truckload in a 40-tonne rig. We bundle several stores in a region onto one route with a fixed stop sequence, so every store has its goods in stock by opening time.
Cross-docking and hub-and-spoke
For store networks we organise distribution on the hub-and-spoke principle: goods arrive consolidated at the transhipment point, are distributed onto store routes by cross-docking without storage and delivered the same day. This lowers inventory, shortens the lead time from goods-in to shelf and makes promotional deliveries controllable across many locations simultaneously.
Express for promotional goods and sales peaks
Season launch, promotion week, unexpected sell-out: when goods have to reach the shop floor immediately, we run direct transports with no transhipment – including weekends or overnight. Typical cases are POS displays for a promotion launch, short-notice replenishment for best-sellers or the range changeover on a set date. You report the requirement, we quote a fixed price and delivery time within hours.
Returns, empties and disruption management
Store logistics doesn't end at the loading dock: on the return leg we take back returns, empties, reusable containers and promotional fixtures and bring them back consolidated to the central warehouse or service provider – same route, no second trip. We keep empties accounts and container stocks documented separately, so your accounting isn't left chasing pallets and crates. We also run transfers between stores at short notice as a direct service, for instance when stocks of a promotional item are unevenly distributed.
And when something goes wrong, response time counts: if a vehicle fails or a warehouse shifts the slot, our team re-plans, informs everyone involved proactively and confirms the new delivery time. Your stores hear about changes from us before anyone is left standing at an empty dock – that is what distinguishes managed retail logistics from mere freight brokerage.
Food in retail: HACCP-compliant processes
For food we work to HACCP-oriented processes: clean, documented load compartments, a closed transport chain and, where needed, temperature-controlled vehicles for fresh ranges. Dry goods, beverages and non-food travel in curtain-sider or box vehicles; every shipment is CMR-insured. This lets you meet the requirements of your QA department without extra coordination effort – and your customers find full shelves. For temperature-controlled fresh deliveries we document the cold chain per shipment on request, so your quality assurance has the proof on file with no added effort. Regular services we calculate as fixed lanes with conditions agreed in advance.