After Hour Logistics

1. Transportation
   • Air Freight – Next Flight out – Charter
   • Truck Load, Less Than Truck Load
   • Ocean Freight
2. Warehousing & Distribution
   • Order Fulfillment & Inventory Control
   • Cross Docking
   • Reverse Logistics
3. Refund & Drawback Services
   • Refund
   • Drawback
   • Brokerage Service Negotiation
4. Freight Bill Auditing
   • Pre-audit
   • Post Audit
5. Convention,Trade Show & Event Planning

Transprotation

NEXT FLIGHT OUT:   when your delivery needs to cover a great deal of distance in the shortest amount of time, we put your shipment on the next flight best suited to your delivery needs. With business centers, covering North America and our extensive strategic service partners network spanning the globe, your shipment can travel securely from any origin to any destination in a matter of hours. When your shipment is critical, and your deadline is immediate, you need reliability and consistency that can only be offered by AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS. With Next Flight Out solutions available 24 hours a day, your delivery are never more than a phone call away.

CHARTER:  Exclusive – use of the aircraft for your time critical cargo or passenger requirements

Truck Load (TL)

Time Critical: is a non-stop, door-to-door delivery service without co-mingling your freight with that of other shippers. The truck essentially belongs to you for a particular shipment. Delivery is promised at a specific time. This service is the most urgent of freight service.

Exclusive use of vehicle: this service is your shipment only will be load on a particular truck or vehicle and seals it until arrival at the desired destination dock. The difference between Time Critical and this service is only Time.

Time-Definite Service: is another option. Our Less Than Truck Load (LTL) service provides time – definite service, which is less urgent than time-critical service. The service provides a time- definite delivery time agreed upon prior to shipment.

 

Ocean Freight (Comming soon)

As you can see, each of these services offers own features, benefits and flexibilities. However, all are designed and applies to control costs, increase capacity, improve customer service, reduce capital investment and enhance on-time delivery performance.

 

We at AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS ensured you that our truck drivers will show up equipped with required proper equipment to do a job.

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Warehousing and Distribution

Our centers and systems support and manage pick-and-pack; pre-sorting of small parcel outbound, LTL, and TL outbound; integrating fulfillment to department and discount stores; and cross docking. We also provide bonded warehousing facilities that offer packing and crating, light assembly, and repair operations. Our self-motivated employees deliver high operational performance in a safe and secure environment.

Services are provided in these strategically located warehouses:

Cross Docking to shipping connection

Reverse logistics

Inventory management and order fulfillment

Flexibility to customized services to your needs.

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Cross Docking: a distribution system in which merchandise received at the warehouse or distribution center is not put away, but instead is readied for shipment to retail stores. Cross docking requires close synchronization of all inbound and outbound shipment movements. By eliminating the put-away, storage and selection operations, it can significantly reduce distribution costs.

We at AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS understand the effectiveness of cross docking. Many companies are looking to cross docking in order to maximize efficiencies. This service allows a company to ship goods to a regional hub where the shipment can be consolidated, if necessary, and then moved almost immediately on to its destination. The shipments are cleared from the warehouse very quickly, reducing carrying costs, eliminating storage, increasing inventory turns and speeding up delivery to the customer.

Imagine shipments from your vendors to your customers orchestrated and combined together so that everything arrives in the shortest amount of time with minimum handling and maximum savings. We at AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS provide our clients the ability to meet the business requirements of leading department store and discount retail organizations, including product marking, bar coding, and electronic integration. We can help you deal with significant seasonal peaks, inventory positioning, rapid and accurate replenishment, and vendor-managed inventory requirements.

For retailers, we can establish direct-to-store programs, cross-docking and inventory reduction programs.

Cross docking has three distinguishing characteristics:

Product sits in the staging area for the minimum of time, while every effort is made to facilitate flow from receiving to shipping.

Product goes directly from receiving to shipping, or at worst stays on the dock or forward picking area. It never gets put into storage.

A specific system is in place to ensure efficient exchange of both product and information, giving particular attention to matching and scheduling of inbound and outbound shipments, such that product flows through the facility as quickly as possible.

Customers’ benefits from cross docking service:

 

Enhances their response time to their customers. Customers want product on their shelves tomorrow-not three days later. Cross docking accelerates the flow of product through the supply chain.

Reduces significant costs. Cross docking offers significant savings in inventory costs because product is not stored in the warehouse, but immediately processed for shipping. Costs for labour previously used to put away or move this inventory are reduced and in many cases eliminated.
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REVERSE LOGISTICS: is a specialized segment of logistics focusing on the movement and management of products and resources after the sale and after delivery to the customer. It is a backside of logistics

Your business will benefit from a supply chain and distribution network that can provide additional value-added services to your products. The integration of your assembly, delivery, installation, returns, and repair requirements into your network will greatly enhance your customer responsiveness and operational cost effectiveness. AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS has substantial expertise at bringing additional value to your supply chain solution by cost effectively performing these diverse services for your products as they move through the network. This service can involve work with Customs, including duty and tax refunds, which could represent a significant financial recovery for the company.

We at AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS strive to provide the highest quality, most cost effective and quickest turnaround time for our clients return products.

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Duty Refund and Drawbacks

Each year nearly $2.5 Billion Dollars in duty refunds go unclaimed. If you import goods into Canada and subsequently export them, either in their original state or transformed state, then those refunds may represents lost profits.

AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS assists whether resident in Canada or Non-resident clients in recovering drawback, refunds. Our drawback consultants will help identify and obtain duty refunds for those companies that meet eligibility requirements.

Overview Of Refunds: A refund claim is when any monies to Canada Customs on a particular customs entry are returned to the importer due to the overpayment of duty. This process can happen for the following reasons:

Damage Goods

Shortage goods

Incorrect tariff treatment has been used, causing overpayment of duty

No NAFTA certificate at the time of importation

Clerical error(Rate of exchange, value for duty, etc…)

Time limit to recover refund: 4 years from date of importation.

Overview Of Drawbacks: Refund of duties paid on goods that are exported, where they are returning for the following reasons:

Credit

Surplus Goods

Defective goods

Not according to order

Brokrage Service: AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS also provides Customs Brokers Negotiation service. We can assist you to review your current customs brokers performance, price, or if you are looking to hire a customs brokers, we can assist you in a selection process.

 

 

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Freight Bill Audit

One of the services AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS provide to its clients is Freight Bill Audit. Freight Bill Audit service is typically we audit your freight bills in accordance with your carrier contract or carrier tariff. We then pay the carrier’s freight bill according to your directions. We also provide many different types of report.

Generally, there are two types of freight bill auditing process.

Pre-Audits:   are performed BEFORE the freight bill is paid; therefore the adjustment is made before payment, with a reference to the authority used for the reduction.

Post-Audits:  are similar to pre-audits, except that an overcharge claim must be filed in a timely manner for recovery from the carrier. Post-audit is a systematic review of paid freight bills and/or vendor invoices by experienced auditors at AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS. Upon discovery of errors, we file claims with instructions that refunds be made payable to you and forwarded to AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS for posting and processing. Recoveries (refunds or credit memos) are divided between the customer and AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS. You pay nothing if we recover nothing. It is reported that one out of every five bills may be in error.

Benefits of using our Freight Bill Audit service:

• Cost Savings: in addition to freight bill audit savings, After Hours Logistics service eliminates the need for extensive, and often inaccurate, internal accounts payable processing associated overhead.
• Improved carrier Relations: After Hours Logistics service helps maintain customer relations with carriers on the best possible basis by issuing checks in a timely manner. The remittance statement that accompanies each payment itemizes each invoice number and shows proper tariff or contract authority for all reductions in payment.

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Trade Show and Event Planning

AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS offers its clients Convention, trade shows and event coordination services. Through our reputable strong network partnership, we are premier event specialist in USA, Canada, and Mexico. We understand that the success of convention, trade show and corporate event and meetings depends on receiving the merchandise according to your requirements. We will receive your merchandise, consolidate it, and ship it to where the event to be held prior to the event. We also provide efficient handling of the returns after the show is over.

We provide bilingual staff to coordinate your shipment from point A to point B. and accommodate shipping requirements for all types of products and projects.

AFTER HOURS LOGISTICS tradeshow division provides convention, trade show and event coordination related customs clearance and delivery services to exhibitors who are participating in a trade show, convention, meetings, and corporate events in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Our veteran experts of logistics professionals that have consistently meet the expectations of exhibitors and shipping managers. Our full range of transportation, warehousing and Customs clearance services strength of our organization comes from our association with reputable firms that have committed themselves to providing a superior service aiming towards a long-term partnership. We can easily coordinate shipments into and out of any U.S., Canada, and Mexico convention or exhibition complex and hotel.

Our door-to-door service include:

Import/Export assistance

Assist you and your exhibitors with completing all documents

ATA CARNET preparation and processing

Customs clearance

International Freight Forwarding (Air & Ocean)

Freight handling supervision at the show site

Arrange ground transport to move your materials or your exhibitors goods

Arrange an advance warehouse for arrival of goods storage (Bonded or public)

Coordination of return shipments after the show

Ground transport and delivery services

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