Fulfillment Focus August 21

As trade policy and tariffs continue to dominate the headlines. While stability is key for most shippers, resilience and flexibility in their operations partners is growing ever more important. This week's Fulfillment Focus looks at how third-party fulfillment providers fit into the shifting landscape and how companies like Sourcify can be an unexpected partner to fulfillment providers.

What’s Trending in Fulfillment

Commercial Real Estate.

3PLs are at the center of today’s warehousing shifts—leading major leases, enabling reshoring, and strengthening supply chain resilience. Flexibility and smart network design are now essentials, and 3PLs are the ones making it possible.

Here are some articles that support what we’ve been seeing and hearing in the market:

  1. 3PLs dominating warehouse leasing market

    Retailers, e-commerce companies dialing down real estate spend.

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  2. Bringing Back Production: How 3PLs are Key to Reshoring Success

    As American manufacturers and distributors reshore their supply chains, third-party logistics providers are delivering critical infrastructure and scalable solutions that facilitate the complex transition.

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  3. Commercial Real Estate Requires Supply Chain Reconfiguration in 2025

    If the current volatility accelerates a shift toward more diversified, resilient, and regionally distributed supply chains, then the long-term impact on U.S. logistics demand is likely to be structurally positive.

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Opportunities in Fulfillment

VP - Business Development - Fleet @ ITS Logstics | Nevada

Senior VP - Transportation Solutions @ GCG Companies | New Jersey

Account Executive @ Updike Distribution Logistics | Arizona

Account Executive @ Crane WM | Massachusetts

General Manager @ Shipmonk | Pennsylvania

Partner Highlight: Sourcify

At their core, Sourcify helps aspiring brands build and manage their supply chains. With a particular emphasis on factory sourcing, they have teams on the ground in dozens of countries and can help scaling brands navigate tariffs, address quality issues, and lower costs overall.

BUT... in light of recent trade uncertainty, many brands are delaying ordering decisions and shifting product flows. The knock-on effect for fulfillment providers is that activity through their facilities slows, leading to reduced revenue.

This is where the Sourcify team steps in to help fulfillment providers. Sourcify helps deliver additional value and support to shippers with the additional benefit to providers of mitigating negative revenue impacts. They partner with providers to offer value-added services that help brands improve quality, reduce costs, and optimize their existing factory relationships while also helping the providers unlock revenue by solving product sourcing uncertainty that is causing brand paralysis when it comes to ordering and product flow.

If you have brands that could benefit from working with Sourcify—or if you believe Sourcify can help your business guard against revenue erosion—reach out to Stephen and his team. They’re ready and willing to help!