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CDS specializes in the design and management of Domestic and International Supply Chain networks.
CDS specializes in the design and management of Domestic and International Supply Chain networks.
Offering multi-temperature cold storage warehouse facilities enables you to store inventory of various commodities, including both perishable and shelf stable beverages, produce, dairy, meat, fish, poultry and dry food products.
The versatility of offering refrigerated warehousing and distribution services, along with the same warehousing management for frozen and ambient products, removes the need for you to source multiple warehousing partners. Maintaining all inventory under one roof also allows you greater ease of access and distribution, which streamlines inventory auditing and reporting, lowering the overall storage costs associated with maintaining inventory at multiple locations.
Specializing in the food and beverage industry, CDS possesses the knowledge required to serve the major retailers. From palletization requirements to loading patterns, our team understands the needs of food and beverage distributors.
We ensure your orders arrive at the destination as required by the consignee, preventing non-compliance fines and guaranteeing customer satisfaction along the way.
Our Warehousing Division offers complete pick and pack warehousing services to you, our warehouse clients. Whether your end customer requires full pallets, cases or eaches, our team accurately and efficiently picks and packs your orders to the required specifications, ensuring accuracy and on-time completion throughout the order fulfilment process.
Our temperature-controlled cross docking facilities allow your goods to travel efficiently through our terminal to their destination.
Our cross docking services eliminate the need to receive a product into inventory only to ship it out again, saving time, reducing warehouse costs and preventing excess handling that can lead to damage.
Comprehensive and customizable labelling and relabeling services are available. Whether you need a product labelled or relabeled for regulatory compliance, or simply because the consignee requires it, our team will design, print and apply labels of any kind to pallets, cases, and eaches, regardless of the commodity.
Our labelling services are particularly valuable if you import your products from overseas, as foreign labelling may not comply with government regulations or local market expectation.
Related to our labelling service, we offer barcoding services for all products stored at our facilities. These services can be used to adjust specific products or SKU’s for marketing and promotional purposes, or simply to adhere to standards as required by distributors and retailers.
As with other value-added services offered by CDS, our barcoding services are fully customizable as we cater to your specific needs and those of the end customer or receiver.
As a client, we provide you with access to a dedicated customer service representative who understands your unique needs. This allows us to give you efficient, personalized customer service, and ensures our team is up to speed and ready to assist with any inquiry you may have.
Technology is at the forefront of modern-day warehousing. CDS is an industry leader in acquiring and implementing the right technology to ensure you remain ahead of the competition.
Our robust warehouse management system and online portal provide you with 24/7 access to your inventory, along with a full suite of applications including custom reports, order entry, transaction history and invoicing. These tools drive efficiency and performance, ensuring your key performance indicators, leading to growth and further business development.
Besides our user interface, CDS is fully equipped with EDI capabilities, automating warehouse functions from the initial order entry to the final billing. Streamlining this process lowers costs and prevents errors associated with manual entry.
If you need your products broken down into smaller cases, or packed together into larger shipping quantities, we offer complete case and pallet conversion services. This allows you to sell and ship the exact quantities you desire and build cases or pallets to custom specifications as dictated by sales and marketing, or your end customer.
These re-packing services integrate with our order fulfilment process and other value-added services, getting the job done on time and on budget.
Attractively displayed products are an important tool for marketing and driving sales, and CDS understands the effectiveness of a proper set up in achieving these goals. For this reason, our team provides complete displayer set-up services.
Whether it’s an end of aisle display at a grocery store, part of a promotional booth, or anything in between, our team can construct and assemble the displays you need. Our white-glove approach ensures quality and eye-catching promotional set ups.
We take care to pack and ship your products for easy and efficient set up at their final destination.
As well as having clean, modern-day storage facilities, CDS has earned AIB and BRC credentials. We are a CFIA approved facility with a HACCP program to ensure your inventory is maintained to the highest industry standards.
These elite food safety credentials – obtained through strict adherence to both organizational and government regulations – help you when you are looking to expand your presence in the marketplace by providing quality assurances to prospective distributors and retail partners.
Our focus on temperature controlled transport services within the food and beverage industry ensures compliance with the highest level of food safety standards.
Whether your shipments need to be kept refrigerated, frozen, or just at ambient temperature, we carefully handle all freight to prevent contamination and exposure to improper temperatures, guaranteeing safety and customer satisfaction. This attention to detail and our focus on cold chain management has resulted in CDS Transportation Services maintaining a 99% on time and claim-free delivery percentage year after year.
We are proud to be among the highest in the industry, cementing our position as a leader amongst refrigerated transportation carriers.
Not only do we offer LTL services, we also offer full truckload freight services. With no stops in between pickup and delivery, FTL shipping leads to greater on-time performance, lower costs per shipping unit, and a lessened likelihood of loss or damage associated with unloading and reloading at freight terminals between pickup and delivery.
In choosing to ship in an FTL environment, you are able to ship as much product as you can fit into our 53’ tri axle trailers.
We provide intermodal and rail shipping solutions in both an LTL and FTL environment across Canada and the United States. Using intermodal service increases transit times while drastically decreasing costs compared to shipping by road.
These services are ideal if you have longer lead times, and your shipments are not time sensitive, or if you are simply looking for the most affordable means to transport your products. In addition, CDS Transportation provides the same temperature-controlled transportation in an intermodal environment as we do when shipping by road.
For shipments that require immediate delivery, overnight, anywhere in the world, CDS Transportation Services offers a full suite of air freight services. We work with forwarders and airlines, so your shipments move across the globe on a day’s notice.
Whether it’s an urgent sample shipment, or a last-minute order from an important customer, our air freight services provide you with the most immediate delivery solution possible.
CDS is the best truck transport company. We Offering LTL freight services enables you to ship the exact quantities you want, at an appropriate cost.
LTL shipments are loaded onto trucks and trailers with other orders and delivered on regular delivery routes by our drivers. LTL shipping is the perfect solution for small to medium-sized businesses, or for larger businesses whose clients require smaller amounts of product on each delivery.
Whether you’re shipping refrigerated LTL, frozen LTL, or ambient freight, CDS Transportation Services has the best solution for the unique needs of your business.
Our team understands not all clients have the same needs. Based on this, we create dedicated freight programs for individual clients depending on variables such as transit time, budget, and specific consignee requirements.
Your shipment is not just one of many, it’s given the dedicated care and attention required to guarantee overall performance and customer satisfaction.
Beyond our land-based transportation services within Canada, the United States and Mexico, we offer full ocean freight services, including both LCL (less than container load) and FCL (full container load) shipping.
No matter where in the world a shipment needs to go, our global network of ocean forwarders allows us to facilitate ocean container shipping for you, regardless of the size of the shipment or commodity.
Our ocean freight programs allow for shipments to be held at destination terminals or moved onto land-based modes of transportation for delivery directly to the receiver’s door. As always, our focus on temperature-controlled transportation ensures that your ocean shipments will remain ambient, fresh, or frozen as required.
Incorporating all available modes of transportation together and applying these services to your Supply Chain is part of what sets CDS Transportation Services apart from other freight carriers.
Offering LTL, FTL, intermodal, ocean, and air freight services under one roof prevents you from having to contact multiple service providers to manage your Supply Chain. Allowing us to serve your transportation needs creates efficiencies and savings in administration and invoicing.
This ensures freight cost management and guarantees the personnel handling your shipments understands the big picture and overall objectives of your business.
CDS Transportation Services are based out of a 400,000 square foot terminal in Richmond, British Columbia, equipped with temperature-controlled cross docking warehouses.
Our operation ensures that we maintain product integrity from pickup to final delivery, by providing refrigerated warehouse facilities for both fresh and frozen commodities and dry storage. Our cross docking warehouses allow you to have CDS Transportation Services handle your entire shipment from pickup to delivery, or a portion of it.
Whether you need to drop off your shipment for our team to make the final delivery, or whether your client will pick up the shipment, we can provide you with the exact transportation services you need.
DSD (direct to store delivery) allows you to bypass distribution centers and deliver directly to retail stores. This not only saves time, but it also allows you to sell your products to smaller customers who are not part of, or serviced by, a larger distribution or consolidation program.
The late model fleet operated by CDS Transportation Services includes straight trucks and smaller delivery vehicles. This diversity allows us to deliver directly to any store regardless of their size, even if they do not have a loading dock.
New technologies have allowed the transportation industry to evolve significantly. CDS Transportation Services uses new technologies to improve performance by finding synergies within your Supply Chain, increasing your overall efficiency and lowering your costs.
Our robust transportation management system and customer portal provide self-serve access to a variety of applications including shipment tracking, rate quotations, and document retrieval. You can access customizable reporting and advanced metrics, which allows you to monitor key performance indicators and implement process improvement measures.
In addition to the latest in software-based technology, we outfit our trucks and trailers with IBRITE GPS hardware that enables real time tracking of location, speed, temperature and fuel levels. This real time reporting allows our operations team to proactively monitor shipments around the clock, provide you with live updates and prevent incidents before they occur – a valuable asset for any refrigerated transport company.
CDS Transportation Services offers you a consolidation program which pools freight for delivery to common consignees.
We regularly deliver to common consignees such as Costco, Loblaws, Overwaitea, Sobeys and Walmart. This consolidation program allows us to distribute expenses associated with these consignees, lowering the overall cost to you, while reducing the carbon footprint along the way.
Our consolidation program provides efficiencies downstream from shipping companies to receivers, as our single delivery will remove the need to schedule separate appointments for each vendor.
To guarantee the quality and safe handling of your shipments, all CDS Transportation Services’ trucks and trailers are equipped with remotely monitored GPS units and temperature control technology.
These features allow us to monitor our assets, ensuring the product on board remains at the required temperature, so we can address any delays or issues immediately. We can set, adjust and monitor the temperature of our trailers remotely, regardless of the location of the trailer – an invaluable tool when handling refrigerated freight.
The GPS tracking units on board every truck in our fleet always ensures accurate reporting of the speed and location.
Supplementing our process driven approach to the safe handling of food products is our Iron Apple Certification. All members of our team have undergone extensive training and have achieved full certification in this industry specific program focused on the safe handling and transportation of food and beverage products.
A global network of multi-temp storage facilities, interconnected via EDI, allows you to manage your Supply Chain activity through a single data pipeline: one contact, one system, one contract.
CDS Supply Chain solutions has done the research and analysis required to identify the best partners by region so you don’t have to. Our network offers the certifications and operating standards required in today’s Supply Chains.
Long-term partnerships and volume allow us negotiate rates not typically available. Has an interested retailer ever approached you requiring pricing which included service to multiple RDC’s? CDS Supply Chain Solutions can supply a pricing and service model that puts you in control.
Evaluating the cost effectiveness and quality of your Supply Chain has never been easier. CDS Supply Chain Solutions can audit and model your current and future needs. Our experience in cost avoidance, network planning and growth strategy, lets us add a new dimension to your Supply Chain management tool kit.
As retailer and consumer habits change, so should your Supply Chain. We can independently evaluate your cost base and model the pathways that lie ahead.
The CDS Supply Chain Solutions team employs staff with a diverse range of backgrounds including retail buyers, cost avoidance consultants, product developers, and ocean forwarders. Hence our knowledge of the food and beverage sector is second to none.
Understanding trends both in the consumer and retailer landscapes, and the bonds we have with retailers, distributors and brokers, adds immense value to your business.
We can provide producers, importers, and exporters with key networking opportunities in North America, Europe, and Asia. From concept to delivery, we can help you build the bonds which lead to your success.
CDS Supply Chain Solutions has partnered with many Canadian food and beverage start-ups, many of which are now publicly traded. We are by your side from day one, building both short-term and long-term Supply Chain solutions that complement your business plan.
By taking advantage of established consolidation networks, you can drive cost savings through a proven top tier multimodal freight solution. We can automate your freight management requirements and provide critical business intelligence to help you stay on track. B2B and B2C programs are just a call away.
A hybridized solution of asset and brokered services, covering truckload to parcel shipments, enables a single source solution for you, our client partners.
Identifying and stripping out the unnecessary costs incurred as part of your Supply Chain drives continuous improvement and can contribute to your bottom line.
CDS Supply Chain Solutions can help identify the opportunities and restructure your Supply Chain to reduce costs. Staff experienced in Supply Chain and Supply Base restructuring consulting will work with your Supply Chain and Finance departments to achieve fiscal savings.
Importing or Exporting comes with a new set of considerations. Labelling, regulatory compliance services, repacking, shipper display production, and quality assurance services are some options that we offer across our network. Want to export to Asia? We can walk you through the process and set reasonable expectations.
We offer complete container loading and destuffing services, including the handling and palletization of product arriving on floor in loaded containers. CDS Transload Services unloads, sorts, stages and reloads product on any container regardless of the commodity.
This is particularly useful when you are importing products from overseas, where the way an external supplier loaded and shipped your goods was out of your control. In conjunction with ocean container and import/export services, we move your freight efficiently from any one mode of transportation to another, be it by truck, train or plane.
By running a 24/7 operation, we keep your product moving between points, free of congestion or delays, ensuring your end customer gets what they need, when they need it. Regardless of where your product is arriving from or headed to, we can get it picked up, reloaded, and on its way promptly and hassle-free.
CDS Transload Services are specialists in moving cargo smoothly from one mode of transportation to another. Aided by our proximity to major ocean ports and Vancouver International Airport, our team knows how to keep your Supply Chain moving, eliminating delays as your goods move between different modes of transportation.
Regardless of how your cargo arrives and departs, our ability to facilitate switches between rail, road, ocean and air services keeps your freight in constant motion. You benefit with reduced transit times, ensuring the end user receives their products on schedule.
We use a white-glove approach to clothing and textile shipments, ensuring quality handling of your shipments, and preventing damages to material along the way. Regardless of how your clothing or textile shipment arrives at our facility, our team accurately and efficiently unloads, sorts, and stages for furtherance as per your requirements.
As many textile and clothing shipments originate from overseas, quality and accuracy of inbound orders can vary depending on the manufacturer. Our team audits and inspects inbound shipments and accurately reports any damage and discrepancies before you assume liability for those shipments.
With a large client base in a variety of industries, CDS Transload Services has a proven track record in handling shipments of virtually any type.
Whether you’re looking for services for a single product, or a product line of varying commodities, we have the flexibility and know-how to provide customized Transload solutions, incorporating any specific needs you may have.
Our ramp-to-door programs allow CDS Transload Services to offer complete container pickup and delivery capabilities. Whether your container goods arrive at an ocean port or a rail yard, our operations team will monitor and arrange for prompt pickup and delivery to the final destination or to our cross-dock facility.
Around the clock container monitoring, from the port or rail yard to our secure yard featuring state-of-the-art surveillance, ensures containers travel in and out of the port promptly. This avoids costly demurrage charges and minimizing the time your goods are in transit.
Specializing in the food and beverage industry, CDS rail transloading Services handles inbound and outbound shipments of commodities such as fish, meat, dairy and produce, for a wide range of clients. When dealing with products intended for human consumption, safe handling is paramount.
Because we work under industry regulations, and in close contact with government bodies, you know your food and beverage products will always be protected and handled with care. To maintain cold chain and quality assurance throughout the supply chain, we integrate our Transload Services team with both our cold storage Warehousing Division and our temperature-controlled Transport Division.
When handing high value electronics, security is vital. As a 24/7 operation with around the clock monitoring and surveillance, CDS Transload Services provides you with peace of mind knowing your shipments are safe. Our state-of-the-art transload facility features a controlled yard and high-definition security cameras.
This, coupled with our attention to detail and accuracy, allows us to audit all inbound and outbound shipments, preventing the loss of valuable products as they move through your Supply Chain.
Working with governmental bodies such as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Canada Border Services Agency, the CDS Transload team ensures strict adherence to import and export regulations.
You avoid costly violations that not only impact the bottom line but can affect your standing with these governmental bodies.
