Unseen Costs for 3PLs: What Manual Work Really Costs You

The unseen costs for 3PLs are the labor hours your team spends working around missing information: answering “where’s my order?”, re-keying an order that arrived as a spreadsheet, walking the floor to confirm a count, re-picking something that went out wrong, and assembling invoices by hand. None of it appears on a P&L as its own line, but at the end of the day, you are still paying for it. Our interactive calculator prices eight of these tasks for a 3PL shipping 200 orders a day.