With United Stationers, you can give your customers the ultimate in service and delivery, without having to invest in stocking or warehousing.  United’s unparalleled depth and breadth of inventory – strategically placed close to the consumer – is your key to capturing more sales, more often.  Our electronically linked nationwide distribution network of 34 facilities provides a total of 9 million square feet of storage, enabling us to offer 40,000 skus – in stock and ready for next-day delivery.  In fact, 98 percent of our orders are actually shipped the same day, with more than 90% of these delivered the next day.

Making an investment in infrastructure and inventory is one thing.  But we also invest in technology and automation, including state-of-the-art picking and conveyor systems that allow for efficient movement of product.  For example, our new “Pick-to-Voice” system replaces paper-directed order picking with voice directed picking. Under Pick-To-Voice, the picking associate wears a RF connected microprocessor called a Talkman, a wrist mounted scanner, and a listening/speaking headset. Together, this equipment replaces the reading and picking decisions made by the associate with verbal direction and computed pick decision processes

The benefits of Pick-To-Voice include improvements in order fulfillment quality, improved time to complete a customer order, accurate data of individual picking associate performance, and true real time order fulfillment data. To view a short video of our new Pick to Voice system, please click here (QuickTime format, .mov file, 2 MB).

In addition to sophisticated warehouse systems, our transportation capabilities provide a competitive advantage for resellers. Using our extensive network of delivery vehicles enables us to combine deliveries from various locations to ensure that you – or your customer – receive one complete order, delivered at one time.  

You don’t have to invest in your own warehouse space to sell big.  United Stationers can package your products for the end consumer and send them directly to your customer’s location – transparently.  Or, using our Wrap & Label capability, you can receive all your customer orders separately packaged and labeled for delivery by you.  Either way, the shipment will have your name and look like it came from you.  Picked, packed and shipped today, in the consumer’s hands tomorrow, using United as your partner.

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