A Los Angeles 3PL warehouse in one building you can visit
Alvy Logistics is a Los Angeles 3PL with one warehouse: 58,000 sq ft of ambient, dry space in Valencia, in the Santa Clarita Valley at the north end of Los Angeles County. It is not in the city of Los Angeles, and there is no second building. All of our 3PL services, from receiving and storage to picking, packing and shipping, happen under that one roof, by the same team, and you see inventory and orders in the Logiwa client portal.
That matters when you compare 3PL companies in Los Angeles. Some are networks that place stock in partner buildings. Ask any of them where your pallets will physically sit, and go and look. With us the answer is always the same building, about 40 miles up the I-5 from downtown.
If you sell on Shopify, the store connects through the Logiwa portal and orders drop in without manual uploads. For a brand looking for a Shopify 3PL in Los Angeles, that means Shopify fulfillment runs from Valencia just as it would from a building downtown.
What should a Los Angeles fulfillment center handle?
Whoever you choose, a 3PL warehouse in Los Angeles should cover these jobs without sending you to a second vendor. Use the right-hand column on every provider you talk to, including us.
| Job | What good looks like | Question to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Containers and trailers counted against the packing list, with shortages reported in writing | How soon will I hear about a short or damaged count? |
| Storage | Billed by the pallet or by the square foot, with the unit stated on the quote | Am I paying for pallets in the building or for a footprint? |
| Pick and pack | Priced from a sample of your real orders | What is inside the per-order rate, and what is extra? |
| Wholesale orders | Cartons and pallets built to each retailer’s routing guide | Can store orders ship from the same inventory as online orders? |
| Kitting and projects | Built to a written spec, with the labor rate agreed before work starts | How is project labor billed? |
| Local delivery | Store and showroom drops by van or box truck, not only parcel | Can you deliver across LA from the same dock? |
For wholesale-heavy brands, our B2B and wholesale fulfillment page covers routing guides and pallet orders in more detail.
Is Valencia too far for ecommerce fulfillment in Los Angeles?
It depends on what you ship. For ecommerce fulfillment in Los Angeles, the distance to downtown barely matters, because online orders, international parcels included, leave with the parcel carriers that pick up at our Valencia dock, not on your own van. For store replenishment and rush orders, 40 miles is a routine courier or box truck delivery. The one place distance costs you is the port. Containers come up 60 to 65 miles on your forwarder’s or drayage carrier’s truck, a longer dray than to a port-side building. That is why container unloading and cross-docking here suits freight headed north or inland better than a same-day transload.
How much does a 3PL cost in Los Angeles?
Here is a worked month for a brand holding 30 pallets and shipping 500 ecommerce orders, at the rate card’s starting prices:
| Line | How it is priced | Starting at |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | 30 pallets x $25 a month | $750 a month |
| Order processing | 500 orders x $5 | $2,500 a month |
| Receiving the stock | 30 pallets x $12, once | $360 |
| Pick and pack labor | From a sample of your orders | Quoted |
| Postage and freight | Carrier or courier rates | Quoted |
That is $3,250 a month before pick and pack labor and postage, plus $360 once to bring the pallets in. We price that labor from your real orders rather than an estimate, so the written quote you sign is built on how you actually ship, and business clients are invoiced. The 3PL and pallet storage pricing guide walks through the full math, including the fees worth asking about at any fulfillment warehouse in Los Angeles.
When an LA 3PL is not a good fit
A fair answer saves both of us a wasted month.
- Under a few hundred orders a month. Packing in your own space is usually cheaper at that volume, and we will tell you so.
- Same-day transloads at the port. If containers need to be stripped within hours of discharge, a port-side operator with a short dray is the better fit.
- Goods the building cannot take. This is not a bonded warehouse, there is no climate-controlled storage, hazmat is not stored, and this is not an FDA-registered facility, so food and supplements are out.
- Inventory spread across regions. One building in north LA County is a West Coast origin, not a multi-region network. For the statewide picture, see 3PL in California.
How do you compare 3PL companies in Los Angeles?
Start with fit, then location, then price. Fit means your volume sits where the provider works well: for us, that is roughly a few hundred to several thousand orders a month, or wholesale stock that ships by the pallet. Location means matching the building to your lanes: stores and showrooms across the county, inbound containers from the ports, parcels to the rest of the West. Price means a written quote with storage, receiving, order handling and labor on separate lines, so the number does not change after you move your stock.
What to send for a Los Angeles 3PL quote
Send your SKU count, a month of order history with units per order, how inventory arrives (parcel, pallet or container), roughly how many pallets you hold, and any packaging, insert or retailer routing guide requirements. With that, a coordinator can price fulfillment services in Los Angeles on real numbers. Call (661) 344-8766, Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm Pacific, or request a quote and a coordinator will call you back during business hours and follow up with a written quote.
