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Small e-commerce businesses often start handling fulfillment from a garage or small warehouse. But the scaling math breaks by Q4. For most brands under $2M annual revenue, outsourcing to a 3PL in Canada makes more financial sense than owning warehouse space.
Maersk's 617,000-square-foot fulfillment hub in Hopedale, Massachusetts begins operations this August. The investment isn't about shipping containers—it's about e-commerce velocity. For Canadian importers and forwarders, it signals what the dock-level world already knows: when downstream fulfillment accelerates, upstream drayage windows compress.
Last mile from a Montreal warehouse isn't romance—it's dock doors, drayage windows, and the 48-hour clock between inbound and customer delivery. E-commerce logistics that work at scale require sufferance warehouse operations tight enough to handle both clearance and speed. We run this every day.
Inventory management best practices come down to cycle counting discipline, racking density decisions, and drayage window alignment. The difference between a warehouse that runs tight and one that hemorrhages margin sits in those three places.