CPG and food fulfillment that ships fresh-dated, lot-tracked and retail-ready
Food-grade storage, FEFO picking and recall-ready lot records for snack, pantry and packaged-goods brands. One inventory pool feeds your DTC orders, marketplace channels, retail DCs and club-store pallets.
Ready for fulfillment that respects the best-by date?
- Food-grade, pest-controlled storage with allergen-aware slotting
- First-expired, first-out picking with lot and best-by capture
- Retail EDI, GS1 labels and club-store pallet builds
Get your food fulfillment quote
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Food & CPG fulfillment services
Food-Grade Warehousing
Food-grade warehousing is storage operated to keep packaged food clean, dry, pest-free and away from anything that could contaminate or taint it....
Learn more →DTC & Ecommerce Fulfillment
Food ecommerce fulfillment ships individual orders of snacks, pantry goods and CPG to online shoppers, picked FEFO and packed so products arrive...
Learn more →Lot Tracking & FEFO
Lot tracking and FEFO rotation mean every case is received with its lot and date, every order ships the earliest-dated stock first, and every...
Learn more →Retail & Wholesale Distribution
Retail and wholesale distribution ships cases and pallets of your products to grocery chains, natural-channel distributors, specialty retailers...
Learn more →Club-Store Packs & Pallets
Club-store programs require larger pack sizes, specific pallet builds and often display-ready presentation that goes straight to the sales floor....
Learn more →Kitting & Variety Packs
Food kitting combines individual products into variety packs, samplers, gift boxes and subscription kits. We assemble them in food-grade areas,...
Learn more →The CPG Fulfill Co. Standard
Six operating rules we apply to every food and consumer-packaged-goods account.
Food-grade by default
Clean, dry, pest-controlled storage with food kept away from chemicals, fragrances and other odor or contamination risks.
Oldest date ships first
FEFO picking is enforced by the warehouse system, not by memory, so the earliest best-by date always leaves first.
Every lot, every order
Lot and best-by are captured at receiving and tied to outbound orders, so a trace or recall pull is a report, not an investigation.
Allergen-aware slotting
Products containing major food allergens are segregated and handled to avoid damaged-package cross-contact in storage and kitting.
Packouts built for snacks
Crush-resistant cartons, right-sized void fill and seasonal insulated packouts for heat-sensitive SKUs.
Retail-ready discipline
Routing guides, GS1 labels, ASNs and pallet specs are configured per retailer before the first purchase order ships.
Where food brands lose money with a generic 3PL
Packaged food is unforgiving. A warehouse that treats a bag of chips like a phone case will cost you margin, retail relationships and, in the worst case, a clean recall.
Short-dated stock shipped to retail
The picker grabbed the closest pallet, not the oldest lot. The retailer DC rejected it for failing minimum remaining shelf life, and you ate the freight both ways.
Recall with no lot trail
A supplier flags an ingredient lot. Your 3PL can tell you how many units shipped, but not which lot went to which customer. Now every order is suspect.
Melted in transit
Chocolate, gummies and nut butters went out in a summer heatwave in a plain mailer. The reviews arrived before the refund requests did.
Crushed, broken, stale
Chips packed under a heavy jar, cookies with no void fill, bags punctured by staples. Product arrives intact enough to complain about, not intact enough to eat.
Stored next to the solvents
Your granola shared a rack with cleaning chemicals and scented candles. Odor transfer, pest risk and a food-safety audit finding you never saw coming.
Retail chargebacks pile up
Wrong SSCC label, late ASN, mixed-lot pallet, out-of-spec pallet height. Each one is a deduction on the remittance, and they add up faster than the wholesale margin.
Live in weeks, not months
Scope your products
Share your SKU list, formats, shelf life, allergens, heat sensitivity and channels. We map storage and packout requirements before quoting.
Match the right market
We place inventory in the market or markets that put most of your customers and retail DCs within one to two days by ground.
Onboard and receive
Integrations go live, receiving captures lot and best-by on every case, and retailer routing guides are configured.
Ship every channel
DTC parcels, marketplace orders, retail POs and club pallets ship from one inventory pool with FEFO rotation and lot records.
Food and CPG fulfillment vs a generic 3PL
| Capability | Generic 3PL | CPG Fulfill Co. |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory rotation | FIFO by receipt date, or whatever is closest | System-enforced FEFO by best-by or expiry date |
| Lot traceability | SKU-level counts only | Lot and date captured at receipt and linked to each outbound order |
| Storage environment | Shared racks with general merchandise and chemicals | Food-grade zones, pest control program, chemical segregation |
| Facility registration | Not FDA-registered or unknown | FDA-registered food facilities available |
| Heat-sensitive SKUs | Same mailer year-round | Seasonal insulated packouts and ship-day rules for melt-risk products |
| Retail and club orders | Parcel-only or ad hoc pallets | EDI, GS1-128 labels, ASNs and club-store pallet builds |
| Recall response | Manual spreadsheet hunt | Lot-based hold, quarantine and customer-level shipment reports |
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Built for every kind of food & cpg brand
Snacks & Chips
Snack fulfillment handles products that are light, fragile and dated: chips, puffs, crackers, popcorn, pretzels and meat snacks. The job...
Explore →Chocolate & Confectionery
Chocolate and confectionery fulfillment protects products that bloom, soften or melt with heat and humidity. It combines climate-aware...
Explore →Pantry, Sauces & Condiments
Pantry fulfillment covers shelf-stable staples such as sauces, condiments, oils, spices, baking mixes, pasta and grains. These products...
Explore →Bars, Granola & Baked Goods
Bars, granola, cookies and shelf-stable baked goods tend to have shorter shelf lives than chips or pantry staples, and they break,...
Explore →Emerging Food Brands
Emerging food brands often outsource fulfillment when self-shipping, a commissary kitchen or a co-packer's dock can no longer keep up....
Explore →Food & CPG fulfillment in 25 U.S. markets
Place inventory close to your customers and reach most U.S. addresses in 1–2 days by ground. Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal) and Mexico City are coming soon.
- Los Angeles, CA
- Seattle, WA
- Portland, OR
- Phoenix, AZ
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Reno, NV
- Denver, CO
- Las Vegas, NV
- Chicago, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Columbus, OH
- Indianapolis, IN
- Kansas City, MO
- Louisville, KY
- Cincinnati, OH
- Dallas, TX
- Houston, TX
- Memphis, TN
- Atlanta, GA
- Miami, FL
- Savannah, GA
- Charleston, SC
- Nashville, TN
- New Jersey, NJ
- Lehigh Valley, PA
Resources for food & cpg brands
How to Choose a Food 3PL: A Buyer's Checklist for Snack and CPG Brands
The questions that separate a warehouse that happens to store food from a fulfillment partner built for it.
Read guide →Food Fulfillment Costs Explained: What Snack and CPG Brands Actually Pay For
Every line on a food fulfillment invoice, what drives it, and how to keep it under control without cutting the corners that matter.
Read guide →FEFO vs FIFO: Which Inventory Rotation Method Food Brands Need
Why first-in, first-out is not enough for anything with a best-by date, and what it takes to run FEFO properly.
Read guide →Food Warehouse Regulations: FDA Registration, FSMA and What Brands Should Know
The regulations that touch your products while they sit in a fulfillment warehouse, and which responsibilities stay with your brand.
Read guide →Selling Food to Retail: EDI, Routing Guides and Avoiding Chargebacks
What changes operationally when a snack or CPG brand lands its first retail or distributor account, and how to protect the margin.
Read guide →How to Ship Chocolate and Heat-Sensitive Food Without Melting
Heat-season shipping for confectionery and snack brands, from storage to the customer's doorstep.
Read guide →Food & CPG fulfillment questions, answered
What is CPG fulfillment?
CPG fulfillment is the storage, picking, packing and shipping of consumer packaged goods such as snacks, pantry staples, drink mixes and household products, usually to both online shoppers and retail or wholesale buyers. For food brands it adds food-grade storage, lot and expiry tracking, FEFO rotation and retailer compliance on top of standard ecommerce fulfillment.
Do you use FDA-registered facilities?
Yes, FDA-registered food facilities are available across our network. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, facilities that hold food for consumption in the United States generally must register with FDA and renew registration every two years, and we confirm the registration status of the specific location handling your products during onboarding.
What does FEFO mean and why does it matter?
FEFO means first-expired, first-out: the unit with the earliest best-by or expiration date ships first, regardless of when it was received. It matters because it minimizes write-offs from expired stock and keeps you inside retailer minimum shelf-life windows, which FIFO alone does not guarantee when lots arrive out of date order.
Can you handle refrigerated or frozen food?
Our core focus is shelf-stable and ambient food and CPG. Temperature-controlled and climate-controlled storage is available in select markets, and we offer insulated seasonal packouts for heat-sensitive ambient products such as chocolate and gummies. Fully frozen DTC programs are scoped case by case.
How do you handle allergens?
We handle allergens by segregating products that contain major food allergens, keeping damaged or leaking packages out of general stock, and controlling kitting so open product never contacts other items. U.S. law recognizes nine major food allergens, including sesame, and your packaging remains responsible for declaring them.
Can you ship to retailers and club stores as well as DTC?
Yes. The same inventory pool serves DTC parcels, marketplace orders, retailer and distributor purchase orders, and club-store pallet programs. We support EDI documents such as purchase orders, advance ship notices and invoices, GS1-128 carton and pallet labels, and retailer routing guide requirements.
How do you support a product recall or market withdrawal?
We support recalls by placing the affected lots on hold immediately, quarantining physical stock, and producing a report of every order and customer that received those lots. Because lot is captured at receiving and tied to outbound orders, the shipment list comes from the system rather than from manual reconstruction.
Do you build variety packs and multipacks?
Yes. We assemble variety packs, multipacks, gift boxes, sampler kits and club-store packs from your component SKUs, recording the lots used in each finished kit and assigning the kit a best-by date based on its earliest-dating component.
Is there a minimum order volume?
There is no single minimum; we quote based on your SKU count, order profile and storage needs. Emerging snack brands moving from self-fulfillment and established CPG brands adding retail channels are both a fit, and we will tell you plainly if your volume suits a different setup.
How is food fulfillment priced?
Food fulfillment is typically priced per order and per pick, plus storage by pallet or bin, receiving by pallet or carton, and packaging materials, with retail and kitting work quoted per unit or per hour. We provide a transparent, itemized custom quote, usually within 24 hours of receiving your product and order details.
Ready for fulfillment that respects the best-by date?
Tell us about your products, shelf life and channels. You will get a transparent, itemized quote, usually within 24 hours.