We run order fulfillment for Gainesville and Alachua brands out of one warehouse in Sanford: receiving, storage, pick and pack, kitting and returns, all from our Sanford fulfillment center. It is 112 road miles from you, which is the same trip you would make to downtown Orlando.
If you make what you sell rather than buy it in, the rest of this page is written for you. Fulfilling for a manufacturer is a different job from fulfilling for a reseller, and most providers quote it as though it were the same one.
If you manufacture, print, formulate or assemble the thing you sell, four things work differently from the standard reseller setup. None of them is difficult. All of them go wrong when nobody names them before the first pallet moves.
We are set up for archery and sports equipment, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements, and for printed and apparel goods where the box size does more to the shipping line than the weight does.
The quickest way to find out whether this fits is to tell us what you make and how it arrives. Monthly order count, rough storage footprint, and how often production runs land. Start there and we will come back with a real rate card rather than a range.
Gainesville sits far enough north that the middle of the state reads as somewhere else. On the road it is not. Our dock and downtown Orlando are the same distance from your city hall, near enough exactly.
| From Gainesville | Road miles | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| To our dock in Sanford | 112 mi | about 2 hr 30 min |
| To downtown Orlando | 112 mi | about 2 hr 10 min |
| To Ocala | 38 mi | about 50 min |
Road distances and drive times calculated with OSRM at free-flow speeds, from our verified dock coordinates and from Gainesville City Hall, the same method used on every location page on this site. Real drive times run longer than free-flow figures, so treat the minutes as a floor and the miles as the hard number.
Ours takes a little under twenty minutes longer than the Orlando run despite the identical mileage, because that route stays on the interstate and this one does not. US 441 out of town, I-75 south for about forty-five miles, then east on SR 44 and a stretch of surface road before the Wekiva Parkway picks up at our end. That last section is tolled and the rest is not.
Two and a half hours each way is a real day, so factor that travel time into your fulfillment provider decision. Ask how the operation handles peak-season volume and December exceptions.
We are open 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. Ring (800) 674-3441 to discuss your fulfillment needs. Tell us which unit is hardest to pack and we will discuss the packing requirements.
A hundred and twelve road miles, about two and a half hours. Downtown Orlando is the same distance from you, though it is a shorter drive because that route stays on the interstate and ours comes off it. The street address and how to find it are on the Sanford page.
Yes, and it is worth setting up deliberately rather than assuming. Tell us roughly how often runs finish and how much they vary in size, and we will agree what a receiving notice looks like for you. The failure mode is a run arriving unannounced and being counted against nothing.
It depends where the finishing step sits. If the customization happens before stock reaches us, it is straightforward. If it happens after the order lands, it becomes a defined operation here with written instructions, or it stays with you and we ship what you send us. Both are workable. The wrong answer is leaving it undecided until the first order.
Whatever you tell us to. Most makers want them separated from sellable stock and held for a seconds channel, a warranty pool or spares. Left unspecified they end up on a pallet nobody owns, which is the outcome to avoid.
Only the last stretch. The Wekiva Parkway charges; I-75 and the state roads across do not. For occasional travel it is not a number worth thinking about.
Four things: getting stock in, holding it, picking and boxing each order, and moving the parcel. Nothing else on top. For a manufacturer the line that usually moves most is the first one, because irregular production runs take more work to book in than a predictable weekly delivery. The Florida page breaks each of the four down.
Deeper on the mechanics: what happens to an order between the dock and the label, which storefronts and marketplaces we connect to, and the third-party logistics service all of it sits under.
Send a monthly order count and a rough storage footprint. If you manufacture, add how often production runs land and how much they vary, because that moves the receiving line more than anything else does. We will come back with a rate card and a straight answer on whether it works at your size.
