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Dedicated client · Contract warehousing · Since 2014

A dedicated warehouse, staffed by Taylor, built around your operation.

Taylor's contract warehousing delivers fully customizable, dedicated storage tailored to your exact specs. We'll take over your existing building, source a new one, or design and stand one up from scratch — then staff it with Team Taylor, integrate SynapseWMS by Made4Net, and run it like it's our own. We've been delivering this model since 2014, and our customers don't leave.

Model maturity
2014
12+ years proven
Standup speed
Wks
WMS go-live, not months
WMS partner
M4N
Synapse by Made4Net
All facilities
SQF
Food-grade certified
Custom dedicated client warehouse

Customized solutions, not cookie-cutter 3PL.

Whether you need us to take over an existing facility and staff it entirely, or you need help sourcing a suitable building — we have the flexibility and expertise to accommodate your requirements. Our team works closely with you to understand your unique business needs, then crafts a tailored approach that aligns with your goals and maximizes efficiency.

Take over your facility
We absorb the building, the equipment, and the staff — and run it to your standards.
Source a new building
Site selection, lease negotiation, layout — we handle the search end-to-end.
Design from scratch
Greenfield facility design tuned to your SKU profile, flow, and growth plan.
Full-service 3PL partner

Everything your facility runs on, under one roof.

From staffing to WMS to automation to food safety — every capability is in-house, not subcontracted.

Team Taylor staffing
We hire, train, and retain the entire workforce. If we take over your operation, we often absorb the incumbent staff into the Taylor org.
SynapseWMS by Made4Net
Real-time inventory, directed putaway, multi-mode picking, lot/FEFO control, labor productivity, EDI/API. In-house WMS support team — not a vendor helpdesk.
Material handling & automation
Racking, conveyance, pick-to-light, AMRs, voice picking, ASRS — Taylor sources the equipment, installs it, and provides operator training.
SQF food-grade operations
All Taylor facilities are food-grade. We bring the full food-safety playbook: SQF audit prep, master sanitation, allergen segregation, GMP training, audit-day support.
Facility design services
Flow mapping, rack layout, dock configuration, forklift aisle sizing, mezzanine design, storage strategy — engineered to your SKU profile and throughput.
Gantt-managed transitions
Every standup runs a phased Gantt covering scoping, build-out, WMS config, hiring, training, inventory migration, parallel run, and go-live. No surprises.
Value-added services
Kitting, contract packaging, retail display builds, eCommerce/DTC fulfillment, Amazon prep, labeling, rework, seasonal projects — all in-facility.
Margin management
Regular KPI reviews, accurate cost reporting, and no hidden fees. You see what you pay — rate cards are clear, transparent, and tied to actual performance.
Sustainability reporting
SLCT participant for Scope 3 emissions. Taylor provides emissions reporting to help clients meet ESG commitments across the supply chain.
Inside a Taylor dedicated facility

An operation, not a shelf rental.

Every Taylor contract warehouse is laid out around your SKU profile, your velocity, and your peak. Click a zone to see what each area runs.

INBOUND OUTBOUND D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 RECEIVING ASN · LP TRACK SQF ZONE ALLERGEN CTRL VAS / KIT DISPLAY · PACK SELECTIVE + BULK RACK A/B VELOCITY · LOT · FEFO AUTOMATION CELL PTL · AMR · CONVEYANCE OUTBOUND LANE-SORT · ASN OFFICE · TEAM TAYLOR LEADERSHIP · TRAINING
Inbound flow
Putaway
Pick / ship
Automation routing
Food-grade boundary
Selected zone
Selective + bulk racking

Selective rack for A/B velocity, drive-in / push-back for bulk and seasonal, floor lanes for promotional displays.

    Schematic only — every Taylor dedicated layout is designed against your SKU profile, throughput, and temp class.
    Synapse · Live operational view

    What your team sees on shift, every shift.

    SynapseWMS surfaces the floor in real time — receiving status, wave progress, labor productivity, and dock activity. No nightly batch reports, no spreadsheets.

    SYNAPSE · TAYLOR DEDICATED — SITE 042
    Shift A · 14:32 EST LIVE
    OTIF
    98.4%
    ▲ +0.6 WK
    Inventory accuracy
    99.91%
    ▲ +0.02 WK
    Dock-to-stock
    1.4h
    ▲ −12M WK
    Units / labor hr
    172
    ▲ +8 WK
    Throughput · today vs forecast
    Actual Forecast
    Wave status
    • W-2814SHIPPED
    • W-2815LOADING
    • W-2816PICKING
    • W-2817PICKING
    • W-2818RELEASED
    DOCK BOARD · NEXT 90 MINUTES
    D1IN
    Crete · 4521
    14:45ON TIME
    D2IN
    Schneider · 8842
    15:10ON TIME
    S2OUT
    Taylor Dist · T-114
    15:00LOADING
    S4OUT
    Estes · LTL
    15:25STAGED
    D5IN
    Werner · 1203
    15:45DELAY 18M

    Illustrative dashboard — Synapse views are tuned to your team's roles, KPIs, and exception rules during standup.

    Taylor Logistics warehouse automation in operation
    Live floor · Automation implemented
    Taylor Logistics dedicated warehouse case study
    Dedicated client operation
    Maine International Cold Storage — Taylor dedicated facility
    Dedicated client · Brand new building
    Retail display building value-added service
    Retail display build · Value-added services
    eCommerce fulfillment operations
    eCommerce fulfillment · DTC ready
    Powered by SynapseWMS · Made4Net

    The platform every Taylor warehouse — public and dedicated — runs on.

    Every Taylor warehouse — public and dedicated — runs SynapseWMS by Made4Net. Our in-house WMS team implements, configures, and supports it. You call us, not a vendor helpdesk.

    Real-time inventory
    Live location accuracy, exception alerts, and customer portal access.
    Multi-mode picking
    Directed putaway, zone/batch/wave/cluster — configured to your operation.
    EDI & API
    Standard EDI 940/944/945/856/810/997 and modern API integrations out of the box.
    Lot / FEFO control
    Full traceability with serial, lot, expiry date, and first-expired-first-out logic.
    In-house WMS support team
    Dedicated to contract clients for config, integrations, reporting, and day-two enhancements. Implementation runs weeks, not months — and the team stays with you after go-live.
    SynapseWMS dashboard by Made4Net
    Automation · AI · Implemented today

    We don't just talk about automation. We've implemented it.

    Taylor has deployed Gather AI autonomous inventory management at dedicated sites — not a pilot, not a future capability. Running today.

    Gather AI
    Inventory intelligence

    Autonomous drones perform daily cycle counts across the entire facility — overnight, with no disruption to operations. Misplaced inventory and empty-slot anomalies surface in Synapse automatically at the start of each shift.

    99%+
    Location accuracy
    10×
    Cycle count frequency
    Daily
    Inventory reconciliation
    0
    Manual count hours
    Taylor Logistics facility automation
    Also implemented at dedicated sites
    Pick-to-light systems
    AMRs and shuttle systems
    Voice-directed picking
    Conveyance and sortation
    Transition plan · Gantt-charted

    A visual roadmap for the standup — no surprises on go-live day.

    Every Taylor contract warehouse standup ships with a detailed Gantt chart. We meticulously coordinate inventory moves, hiring, training, system cutover, and parallel-run windows — and align every milestone to the chart. Clients can read the room from day one.

    Work stream
    Pre-construction
    Systems & equipment
    Workforce
    Operational readiness
    Cutover

    Sample 16-week build-from-scratch standup. Existing facility takeovers compress to 6–10 weeks; greenfield builds extend with lease and build-out timelines.

    The economics · all-in cost

    Stop running a warehouse. Run a brand.

    For most brands, in-house warehousing is a capital sink and a management distraction — real estate, racking, MHE, WMS, hiring, benefits, turnover, safety, compliance, idle capacity. Hand it to Taylor and most of those line items disappear or collapse into one variable rate. You get the experts, the building, and the people — and you get to spend your team's time on the brand, not the dock.

    Typical client outcome
    15–30%
    All-in landed cost reduction

    Versus running the same operation in-house — once you fold capex amortization, turnover, idle capacity, and management overhead into the comparison.

    Capex on day one
    $0

    No racking, no MHE, no WMS licenses, no building. Taylor brings the capital and the assets. You sign one operating agreement.

    Cost shape
    Fixed → Variable

    Pay for the units you actually move and store. Demand drops, your bill drops. Demand spikes, our infrastructure absorbs it — no scrambling to hire.

    Total landed cost · illustrative

    Where the dollars actually go.

    In-house warehousing has ten cost centers, half of which never show up on the quote. Taylor consolidates them into a handful of variable rates — bundled with the WMS, compliance, and management you'd otherwise build a department around.

    In-house total100 units
    Taylor total60 units
    Modeled savings −40%

    Illustrative cost stack for modeling — actual savings vary by SKU velocity, throughput, building size, and how much capex you've already sunk. Run yours with our team.

    In-house warehousing — 10 cost centers
      Hidden line items most quotes miss: turnover replacement cost (12–35% of fully-loaded wage), idle peak capacity, internal IT for WMS, recruiter fees, safety incident reserves, and SQF audit consulting.
      01

      Scale you can't buy alone

      Taylor's people, racking, MHE, WMS, and compliance program are already paid for and running. Your dedicated facility absorbs incremental cost — not the standup capex of building everything from zero.

      02

      Variable, not fixed

      In-house warehousing carries idle capacity in soft months and panic-hire labor in peaks. With Taylor, you pay per pallet-day stored and per unit handled. The math follows your demand curve, not the calendar.

      03

      Focus on the brand, not the dock

      Your finance team stops modeling forklifts. Your HR team stops backfilling warehouse turnover. Your IT team stops patching WMS servers. You ship better product, faster — to customers — while we run the building.

      The pitch, plain
      Leave the supply chain to the experts who've been doing it since 1850.

      Your team should be building product, marketing, and customer experience — not running a warehouse, hiring forklift operators, or chasing SQF auditors. Taylor takes that off your plate at a lower all-in cost than doing it yourself.

      Model my savings →
      Operational rhythm

      Twenty-four hours, one orchestrated operation.

      A Taylor dedicated facility doesn't have idle hours — it has shift transitions. Here's how a typical day overlaps inbound, putaway, picking, outbound, and overnight inventory work.

      Overlapping work streams

      Most Taylor dedicated facilities run two production shifts plus an overnight cycle-count and replenishment window. Peak season layers a weekend shift on top — already staffed, already trained, no scramble.

      Full service 3PL partner

      Stack everything on top of your dedicated facility.

      Your dedicated warehouse is the foundation. Taylor can layer freight brokerage, asset-based trucking, and full value-added services on top — one contract, one team, one invoice.

      Freight brokerage
      FTL, LTL, drayage, intermodal, power only, transloading, expedited — all 50 states. Your outbound moves coordinated from the same team running your facility.
      Taylor Distributing Co. assets
      Asset-based trucking out of Cincinnati for the Midwest — dedicated fleet programs, plant service, drayage, regional truckload. When you need iron, we have it.
      Value-added services
      Kitting, co-packing, retail display builds, eCommerce/DTC, Amazon prep, labeling, seasonal projects, transloading — all in-facility, all under one team.
      One invoice
      Warehousing, transportation, VAS — consolidated under one contract, one team, and one billing relationship. Simplified vendor management, better accountability.
      Frequently asked

      Questions about dedicated warehousing.

      Straight answers on how the model works, what it costs, and how Taylor operates it.

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