SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES FOR RETAILERS

Expand Your Capabilities with SVT

Faster Returns, Greater Recovery
Turn returned goods into recovered revenue, quickly.
Expertise on Day One
Proven logistics specialists and technology, ready from the start.
Smarter Inventory Control
Real-time visibility that lowers costs and prevents stockouts.

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Supply Chain Services for Retailers

Every retail order is a chance to earn margin or lose it. SVT helps retailers keep more of it by getting product to customers faster, keeping stock aligned with demand, shipping everything retailer-ready, and recovering value from returns and excess inventory. The result is a supply chain that works as an extension of your team and protects your bottom line.

Types of Retailers and Brands SVT Supports

Department Retailers – Box retail operations like Walmart, Kohl’s, and JCPenney.
Specialty Retailers – Category-based retail operations like Apple, Best Buy, and Foot Locker.
Online Retailers – E-commerce and DTC retail operations like Allbirds, Dollar Shave Club, and Quince.

Regardless of your selling model or business size, SVT has capabilities that enhance your supply chain operations to deliver efficiency and maximize value.

Electronics Sporting Goods Home Goods Personal Care Non-perishable Apparel

Reverse Logistics: Recover value from returns, open-box, and older models before newer releases erode their worth.
3PL: Get high-value products to customers quickly and securely, whatever channel they ordered from.
Inventory Management: Time your buys to short product cycles so you aren’t left holding last generation’s stock.
Value-added Services: Bundle accessories, kit products, and pack so orders arrive complete and compliant.

Reverse Logistics: Move prior-season and excess gear to buyers who want it instead of discounting it into the ground.
3PL: Scale capacity up for peak seasons and back down when demand cools, without carrying fixed overhead.
Inventory Management: Stay ahead of seasonal swings with visibility into what’s selling, where, and in which sizes.
Value-added Services: Build equipment bundles and sets, and ticket and label product so it’s ready for the sales floor.

Reverse Logistics: Recover value from bulky, damaged, and discontinued items that are costly to return or store.
3PL: Handle oversized and fragile products carefully so they arrive intact and customers stay happy.
Inventory Management: Track trend and season-driven SKUs so slow movers are flagged before they are markdowns.
Value-added Services: Create sets and multi-piece kits, use custom packaging, and inspect product before it ships.

Reverse Logistics: Place discontinued, overstocked, and short-dated products with buyers before shelf life runs out.
3PL: Ship quickly and accurately, with the lot-level care that product with expiration dates requires.
Inventory Management: Rotate stock by shelf life and demand so product sells through instead of aging out.
Value-added Services: Assemble gift sets and multipacks, relabel, and repackage for promotions and requirements.

Reverse Logistics: Connect near-code, discontinued, and surplus product to off-price buyers before it’s a write-off.
3PL: Move case and pallet volume efficiently while meeting retailer delivery requirements.
Inventory Management: Monitor code dates and stock levels across locations so product ships while it’s still sellable.
Value-added Services: Build variety packs and promotional bundles, and relabel or repack to retailer specs.

Reverse Logistics: Turn returns into resalable inventory and find the right buyers for off-season and overstock styles.
3PL: Fulfill wholesale and DTC orders from one operation, with speed that matches customer expectations.
Inventory Management: See stock at size and color level across every location so you can rebalance before it stalls.
Value-added Services: Handle hangtags, ticketing, polybagging, and inspection, avoiding chargebacks.

Reverse Logistics for Retailers

According to the NRF, nearly $850 billion in retail returns occurred in 2025 (≈16% of all sales).

When you look at the big picture, that’s money you’re losing on every order – not including the cost of shipping and labor upon return.

However, reverse logistics goes beyond returns. What are you doing with your excess, obsolete, and sunset inventory?

That’s where SVT comes in. Our end-to-end reverse logistics program accounts for all your off-price inventory and creates an entire selling program around it. We go beyond liquidation channels. SVT connects your aftermarket inventory to buyers who know it’s worth.

Reverse Logistics Program Development

SVT designs and executes efficient, profitable reverse logistics programs built for recovery with measurable results to back our process.

Returns Processing & Grading

SVT handles returns processing and grading with specialists who maximize value from every return, regardless of condition.

Excess Inventory Recovery

SVT has proactive programs to recover maximum value before inventory becomes a write-off. We don’t rely on liquidation channels that just get inventory off your hands.

Secondary Market Resale

SVT has 23+ years of expertise delivering high recovery rates through our secondary market resale channels, including our dedicated recommerce platform, Merch².

Material Harvesting for Internal Reuse

Instead of products becoming write-offs, SVT disassembles finished goods to recover components for reuse, resale, or recycling.

Compliant Recycling & Reporting

SVT has teardown and destruction capabilities with full transparent reporting and proof of destruction that’s compliant with your recycling standards.

3PL Services for Retailers

Your customers don’t care where your warehouse is. They care when the box shows up.

In a 2025 Radial survey, 62% of shoppers said faster shipping is the deciding factor when choosing between similarly priced, in-stock retailers. The share of shoppers expecting 2-3 day delivery rose from 19% in 2023 to 30% in 2025. Fulfillment is no longer back-of-house. It’s part of the sale.

SVT’s 3PL services cover receiving, storage, pick and pack, and multi-channel shipping. With real-time portal visibility in Cin7 and capacity that flexes with demand, we work as an extension of your team, not just another vendor.

Warehousing & Storage

From standard pallets to oversized, secure cage, or speed-bin configurations, SVT has a storage solution for your product and timeline, with 24/7 WMS portal visibility included.

Cross Dock & Border Transfers

SVT’s cross-dock and border transfer services accelerate inventory turns, reduce storage dependency, and minimize total handling time across your network.

B2B Order Fulfillment

From bulk shipments to piece-part orders, SVT delivers B2B fulfillment with precision. Our facilities serve manufacturing, retail, wholesale, repair, and distribution operations.

E-Commerce Order Fulfillment

Accurate shipments, on-time delivery, and seamless EDI and API integration with most major platforms. SVT’s e-commerce fulfillment is built around your customer’s expectations.

Picking & Packing

Detail-oriented and accurate, with the flexibility to scale for seasonal demands. Every outgoing order passes our Quality Control process before it ships.

Packaging & Labeling

SVT handles the full range of packaging and labeling needs, including OEM, retail, return-to-stock, and re-labeling services covering 99% of all label requirements.

Inventory Management for Retailers

6.5% of global retail sales. That’s what IHL Group estimates retailers lose to inventory distortion, the combined cost of out-of-stocks and overstocks. IHL puts the 2025 total at $1.77 trillion, including $1.2 trillion from out-of-stocks and $572 billion from overstocks.

Those are two sides of the same problem: not knowing what you have, where it is, or where it’s headed.

SVT’s inventory management gives you a single view across every location and channel, plus the insight to act on it. Buy closer to demand, rebalance stock before it stalls, and flag slow movers before they become markdowns.

Inventory Rebalancing & Centralization

SVT brings the expertise, systems, and mapping capabilities to centralize and optimize your global inventory, turning scattered stock into a competitive advantage.

Supply Chain Transition Support

Mergers, outsourcing shifts, EMS partner changes: SVT guides you through high-stakes transitions with customizable solutions that maintain accuracy and prevent disruption.

Stock Rotation Management

SVT manages the stock rotation process, in full or in part, to reduce obsolescence loss, balance inventory levels, and improve ROI across your channel and distribution network.

On-Site Cycle Count & Audit Services

Our on-site cycle count and wall-to-wall audit services provide the visibility and accuracy your operations depend on.

Value-added Services for Retailers

A label placed a half-inch off. An ASN that doesn’t match the shipment. A carton packed one way when the retailer’s guide called for another.

They look like small mistakes, but retailers enforce their rules with deductions. One industry estimate puts chargebacks at 1-5% of invoice value, and a single retailer can impose an average of 50-150 compliance rules.

SVT’s value-added services handle the work between the dock and the customer: kitting and bundling, labeling and ticketing, repackaging, custom packaging, and quality inspection. Everything is done to each retailer’s spec before it ships, so your product arrives sell-ready and your margin stays yours.

Kitting & Bundling

SVT groups, packages, and ships product kits and bundles, whether you need a new SKU, a custom kit, or personalized shipments, reducing cost and improving the customer experience.

Packaging & Labeling

SVT handles the full range of packaging and labeling needs, including OEM, retail, return-to-stock, and re-labeling services covering 99% of all label requirements.

Quality Inspection

SVT verifies product condition, quantity, and compliance at receiving, in storage, and before shipment, giving you confidence that every order meets your standards.

READY TO REV UP YOUR RETAIL OPERATIONS?

Contact SVT to shape a personalized supply chain plan built to take your retail operations to the next level.

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