Komar Distribution Services utilizes leading edge technologies and proven business processes to ensure our clients orders are processed quickly and accurately.
Our Clients recognize the need for well developed systems in critical areas such as reporting, supply chain management, distribution, replenishment, stock control and customer service in order to be successful. While Komar is busy handling the details of fulfillment and back office management, our customers are focused on developing new ideas, product lines, and marketing plans.
Companies trust Komar with their most important needs because of Komar’s sterling reputation in the market place. We will be happy to furnish references upon request. Here are a few examples of what our clients have to say about KDS services:
"KDS consistently sets the bar for standards of excellence. From customer service to vendor compliance, their team of skilled employees gets the highest marks. They have never missed a monthly shipping goal."
-- Stu Greenberg, President Chelsea Designs
"KDS has been completely responsive to the demands the retailers are requiring from our company for quick turn and efficient processing of orders. The attention to detail has been outstanding allowing us to concentrate on marketing and selling instead of the shipping piece of the business."
-- Randy Severs, President, Bees and Jam
"KDS provides Lotta Luv the comfort level and confidence it needs to strategically grow it's business throughout all tiers of retail....mass...department store....specialty....drug....grocery and dollar channels.....all with tremendous efficiency and timeliness."
-- Steph Fogelson, Presideant, Lotta Luv Cosmetics
KDS is special as it is proactive and makes the impossible happen. They work to make miracles common place and not the exception. Our key accounts achieve their sales and profit numbers routinely, not by accident, but by having the experienced team at KDS at their disposal.
-- Fred Strulson, Vice President Sales, Liz Claiborne Sleepwear
KDS has provided for CC Girl "real time, to the piece" shipping information which is the ultimate in customer service. We are running a very successful replenishment business.
-- President CC Girl
Hi Jeremy,
I am still thrilled every day with the KDS systems. My shipping is 100%! I stock for a replenishment business as well as fashion in the girl’s underwear area and ship to all major and many small independent stores and many websites as well as Target and WalMart. All require different processing and KDS is state-of-the-art.
My favorite tool is “real time” information that I can retrieve while on the phone with a client. I can see immediately exactly where my orders are, not to mention having a wonderful customer service department and great EDI and Traffic departments should I ever need them. KDS has made it possible for me to increase my business in an otherwise difficult economy, our customers are very happy with our shipping and service as well as our retail performance. We beat out all competitors by having goods on the floor shipped correctly! Equally as important is the fact that we have experienced no charge backs due to shipping errors or notification errors.
You can see our product at Nordstrom in the girls’ area and you can see our product on Herroom.com, Macys.com, Target.com (under CCG) and many others. When you are anywhere other than the West Coast, you can see our product in Dillard’s, Macy’s, Bon Ton, Shopko and many independent stores. We just “set up” business for 138 stores with Shopko and our pegs are full due to shipping correctly while competitors are only half stocked due to their poor shipping.
On this all store order we were 6pcs short; we were just sold out of that fashion style and notified our buyer ahead of time. We have added 1,500 new “doors” to our business thanks to Komar and KDS systems since November of 2008!
Rgds,
President
CC Girl Inc
April 6th, 2010
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 8 percent in April compared with the same month a year ago, and solid increases are expected to continue through the summer as the U.S. economy improves, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by NRF and Hackett Associates.
“Retail sales are starting to improve and retailers are importing merchandise in the quantities they need to meet that demand,” NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said. “We expect these numbers to continue to climb as merchants and their customers move away from the recession and back toward normal shopping habits.”
U.S. ports handled 1.01 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units in February, the latest month for which actual numbers are available. That was down 6 percent from January as shipping hit its traditional slow point for the year but up 20 percent from the unusually low numbers seen during February 2009. It was also the third month in a row to show a year-over-year improvement after December broke a 28-month streak of year-over-year monthly declines. One TEU is one 20-foot cargo container or its equivalent.
March was estimated at 1.02 million TEU, a 6 percent increase over last year as spring products began to head for store shelves. April is forecast at 1.07 million TEU, up 8 percent from last year; May at 1.12 million TEU, up 7 percent’ June at 1.18 million TEU, up 17 percent; July at 1.24 million TEU, up 12 percent; and August at 1.32 million TEU, up 15 percent.
The first half of 2010 is expected to total 6.5 million TEU, up 10 percent. Imports for 2009 totaled 12.7 million TEU, down 17 percent from 2008’s 15.2 million TEU and the lowest since the 12.5 million TEU reported in 2003. The forecast for first-half growth is down from the 17 percent increase projected a month ago as more recent data becomes available.
“Port volumes have begun to rebound and we expect growth to continue going forward,” Hackett Associates founder Ben Hackett said. “Retailers were maintaining lean inventories during the recession but are carefully building back up.”
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