The Unique Challenges
The furniture and home goods industry faces logistics complexities that generic freight forwarders often overlook. From wood product regulations to container optimization challenges, your supply chain requires specialized knowledge and proactive management.
- Lacey Act compliance for wood products: Precise species identification, harvest country documentation, and supplier declarations are required for wood products—errors can result in cargo holds, penalties, or border seizure.
- Container utilization and dimensional cargo: Bulky items like sofas, bedroom sets, and patio furniture create loading inefficiencies that translate directly to wasted freight spend when containers aren't optimized.
- Retail calendar pressure and merchandising deadlines: Seasonal demand spikes and tight retail windows leave no room for delays—missing a merchandising deadline means lost sales and potential chargebacks from retail partners.
- Multi-supplier consolidation complexity: Coordinating furniture frames from one factory, upholstery from another, and hardware from a third—all arriving together for assembly or distribution—requires precise timing and supplier management.
