3PL & Order Fulfillment Services in Melbourne, FL

Our warehouse is in Sanford, 84 road miles from Melbourne, about an hour and forty. One floor, one inventory, one set of people: receiving, storage, pick and pack, kitting and returns all happen in the same building.

We lead with the mileage because it is the number that decides whether we are any use to you, and because for most of Brevard it is not the right number anyway. That one is for Melbourne. If you are in Titusville it is thirty-five miles, which is closer to us than Daytona Beach. Brevard is a long county and the answer changes a lot depending which end of it you are on, so the first thing this page does is give you your own figure rather than the county's.

35 to 87 mithe spread across Brevard, from Titusville to Palm Bay
84 miMelbourne itself to our dock, about an hour and forty
52 mithe gap between the best and the worst answer inside one county
TolledSR 528 and SR 417 both charge. The free way round is a good deal longer

Order fulfillment for Melbourne and the Space Coast

You send us the stock and stop touching it. We count it in against your advance notice, put it away where it can be found, and from then on your storefront talks to our floor without you in the middle. Orders get picked, packed the way you specify, and handed to whichever carrier prices that particular parcel best. Kits get built and returns get processed off the same shelves.

That is the job wherever you happen to trade from, and the Florida order fulfillment page carries the full service list, how switching works and what it costs. What follows is the Brevard part.

Titusville is 35 miles from us. Palm Bay is 87. That changes your answer

Most fulfillment pages written for this market treat the Space Coast as one place. It is not. It is a county that runs the better part of seventy miles down the coast, and from our dock the two ends are nothing like each other.

Where you are in BrevardRoad miles to our dockDrive
Titusville35 miabout 53 min
Cocoa59 miabout 1 hr 8 min
Rockledge62 miabout 1 hr 13 min
Cocoa Beach72 miabout 1 hr 29 min
Melbourne84 miabout 1 hr 40 min
Palm Bay87 miabout 1 hr 41 min

Road distances and drive times calculated with OSRM from our verified dock coordinates to each city center, at free-flow speeds, the same method used on every location page on this site. Times are worse in the afternoon.

Fifty-two miles and forty-eight minutes separate the top of your county's answer from the bottom of it. Titusville is a shorter run to us than Daytona Beach is. Palm Bay is more than twice Titusville. Those two businesses should not be given the same advice, and on most provider pages they are.

So take your own row rather than the county's. North of Cocoa, Titusville and up, this is a genuinely short relationship and dropping stock off yourself is realistic. Cocoa, Rockledge and Cocoa Beach sit in the middle at an hour to an hour and a half, where scheduled runs work and casual ones do not. Melbourne and Palm Bay are the far end, so factor that distance into your inventory transport plans.

If your row looks workable, the next question is money rather than mileage. Give us a monthly order count and a rough footprint and we will put a real price against it, including telling you when the answer is no. Send us your numbers.

The quick route is tolled, and the free one is not worth it

Worth knowing before you plan a trip or send your own freight. The fast way to us runs I-95 north, then the Beachline, the GreeneWay and the Seminole Expressway. All three are toll roads.

A toll-free alternative exists and it is substantially longer, enough that for a car the tolls are the cheaper answer and it is not close. For a van you are running up regularly, price both properly rather than finding out at the booth.

We mention it because it is a real line item nobody puts on a fulfillment page, and because it is the opposite of what a Daytona brand deals with, where the drive over is free.

What ships out of the Space Coast

Brevard is an aerospace county first and a consumer-goods county second, and we would rather say that than dress it up. The consumer side is narrow but it is genuinely distinctive.

If you sell firearms accessories, settle this before anything else

This is the cluster most likely to be reading, so here is the straight version rather than a brochure answer.

"Firearms accessories" covers a very wide range, and the rules do not apply evenly across it. A rail, a sling, a case or a branded T-shirt is not the same shipping problem as an optic, a magazine, or anything the receiver of which is itself regulated. Some items are fine on any carrier. Some are restricted by carrier policy rather than by law. Some are legal federally and blocked at particular state or city destinations. Some need an age check at delivery.

What that means practically is that the answer depends on your specific SKU list, not on your category. Any provider who tells you "yes we do firearms accessories" without looking at your catalogue has not answered the question.

Four questions, and put them to every provider on your list including us:

  1. Which of my SKUs will you refuse outright?
  2. Which will you ship only on a specific carrier and service level?
  3. Which destinations will you block, and on what basis?
  4. What happens to an order that gets rejected after it has left your building?

Get all four in writing before you move a pallet. We would rather work through your list on a call and tell you honestly where the lines fall than take the account and find the problem in week three. Send the SKU list and we will go through it.

When a Brevard provider is the better call

Talk with our fulfillment team

Contact our team to discuss your product range, order volume and fulfillment requirements before choosing a provider.

We are open 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. Call (800) 674-3441 to discuss your fulfillment needs. Directions and a list of questions worth asking any warehouse are on the Sanford warehouse page. Review them when comparing providers.

Nearby areas we serve

Melbourne fulfillment FAQs

How far is your warehouse from me, exactly?

It depends where in Brevard you are, and the range is wide. Titusville is 35 road miles from our dock and about fifty-three minutes. Melbourne is 84 and about an hour forty. Palm Bay is 87. The table above has the rest. Address, hours and directions sit on the Sanford page.

Do I have to pay tolls to reach you?

Yes, on the quick route. I-95 to the Beachline, then the GreeneWay and the Seminole Expressway, all three tolled. A toll-free alternative exists and adds a lot of miles rather than a few. For occasional travel the tolls are the cheaper answer; for a van running up weekly, price both.

I sell firearms accessories. Can you handle them?

That depends entirely on your SKU list rather than on the category, and anyone answering it without seeing your catalogue is guessing. Send us the list and we will tell you which items we will ship, which need a specific carrier and service, which destinations get blocked, and what happens if an order is rejected in transit. You should get those four answers in writing from every provider you talk to, not just from us.

Can I drop stock off myself?

From Titusville and north Brevard, easily, and a fair number of people would. From Melbourne or Palm Bay it is a three-hour round trip, so treat it as a scheduled run rather than a habit. Either way tell us what is coming and roughly when so it gets received against a record.

What does fulfillment cost for a Brevard brand?

Receiving, storage, pick and pack, shipping. Four lines and no software subscription bolted on the end. For a Space Coast brand the line to watch is usually storage, because surf hard goods and pet bedding take up far more room per dollar of stock than their owners expect. See how the four-line invoice is built and what moves each line, then send your numbers for a real one.

Also worth a look: how an order moves through the building, the platforms we plug into, and the underlying services, contract warehousing and fulfillment and returns and restocking.

Get a quote for Melbourne fulfillment

Give us three things: monthly order count, rough storage footprint, and which part of Brevard you trade from. That third one matters more here than anywhere else we serve, because fifty-two miles separates the answers.

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