Pittsburgh-based less-than-truckload (LTL) and logistics services provider Pitt Ohio announced this week that it has rolled out a new Warehouse and Distribution Service offering in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions.
This service will provide project work, surging inventory, and forward inventory services, according to company officials, adding that it will help its shipper customers to gain increased efficiency through an integrated offering, meshing the company’s transport, warehousing, and management services. Pitt Ohio’s Mid-Atlantic- and Midwest-based Warehouse and distribution centers are based in Cleveland, OH, Grand Island, NE, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, PA, Indianapolis, IN, Rock Island, IL, and Roseville, MN.
“Pitt Ohio decided to offer warehousing services based on the emerging needs of our customers,” Geoff Muessig, Chief Marketing Officer told LM. “Most of our warehouse facilities are adjacent to our terminals. Our integrated solution allows Pitt Ohio to process our customers’ orders late in the day and still provide next day delivery up to 250 miles. Pitt Ohio is very well positioned to meet the needs of seasonal customers and those who are confronted with a surge in demand.”
While this announcement reflects the formal introduction of Pitt Ohio’s Warehouse and Distribution Service, Pitt Ohio has been already active on this front, in terms of providing these types of services.
As an example of this, Muessig pointed to how Pitt Ohio quickly came up with a solution for a customer dealing with issues related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic over the course of a single day, in which it formed a warehousing solution for a technology shipper that unexpectedly ran out of room at a distribution center, with a full warehouse and a backlog of 25 trailers waiting to be unloaded.
Within two hours, Pitt Ohio’s Supply Chain Team created a warehousing solution for the customer’s products starting the next business day, at which point it began unloading the 25 trailers into the warehouse space and started the storage and re-loading services for the next five weeks until the customer was caught up. What’s more, Pitt Ohio also provided shuttle service from the warehouse to the customer’s distribution center and diverted loads with its sister company ECM Transport, to three other distribution centers in the customer’s network to keep its supply chain moving.
The primary services provided through Pitt Ohio’s new Warehouse and Distribution Service offering in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, cited by Muessig, include:
As for the main shipper customer benefits of this service, he pointed to various examples, including: