All articles tagged with “Dock Management”.
Q4 dwell times routinely triple. Dock doors book solid by August, drayage slots evaporate, and your in/out fees climb fast. Peak season warehouse capacity planning that actually works starts in June, not October.
Prologis is partnering with Fulfillment IQ to offer AI and warehouse automation consulting to its tenants. The pitch sounds modern, but for Canadian 3PLs, it signals something different: your landlord now sees automation ROI as table stakes. The risk isn't automation itself—it's automating the wrong thing because someone else thinks you should.
Rate cards are fungible. What separates a 3PL that works from one that drains your operations is dock-to-stock cycle time, release coordination with CBSA, and whether they can hold racking density when volumes spike. Quebec's 3PL landscape has some real operators and some that exist mainly to fill space. Here's how to tell the difference.
Peak season capacity planning is not about renting extra space. It's about knowing your dock-door throughput, drayage windows, and racking density ceiling before Q3 ends. We walk through the math that works.
Warehouses across North America are stacking higher and narrowing aisles to push more cubic feet out of the same footprint. At the dock in Montreal, we're seeing the opposite pressure: drayage windows are shrinking, dock-door bottlenecks are real, and the math that works on a spreadsheet doesn't work when a 40-foot container is burning demurrage outside your gate.