3pl staffing in northern indiana maritime district, indiana: managed fulfillment labor for third party logistics providers
your customers hold you to a dock-to-stock window, a fill rate, and an accuracy number. hitting all three depends on whether the right number of trained people showed up this morning.
humano staffs that floor in and around northern indiana maritime district, indiana. we place, supervise and manage the crews that devan your containers, pick and pack your orders, build your pallets and load your outbound, and we price the work per unit handled rather than per labor hour. you get a fixed cost against a known volume, and the recruiting, turnover and daily supervision stop being your problem.
is this you?
we work best with third party logistics providers running at least 10 loads a day, 5 days a week, on annual or dedicated agreements. that is the floor where a managed cost-per-unit crew beats hourly labor, and above it the model only gets stronger.
you are probably here because one of these is true:
- you won a new account and the volume starts before you can hire for it
- your peak is four months away and last year's peak cost more in overtime than it earned
- turnover on the floor is high enough that you are re-training constantly and accuracy is slipping
- your supervisors are spending their day covering absences instead of running the operation
- you are quoting a customer and you need a labor cost you can actually hold to
one thing to be clear about. if you are a brand or a manufacturer looking for someone to warehouse and ship your product, humano is not that company. we do not hold inventory and we do not run fulfillment for shippers. we supply and manage the labor for the 3pls who do. if that is what you need, the rest of this page is for you.
what humano runs inside your building
we work in your facility, on your wms, to your standards. need general floor coverage rather than a single function? see warehouse labor, or browse all humano services.
container devanning and unloading
floor-loaded or palletized, dry or refrigerated. crews trained on your receiving process so freight moves from the door to the rack without a second touch. see our container unloading services.
pick and pack
each pick, case pick, and pallet pick. kitting, labeling and value-added work built into the same crew rather than handed to a second vendor. crews are trained to your pick path and your packing spec, so accuracy holds when volume spikes rather than falling apart at the worst possible time.
palletizing, restacking and transloading
rebuilding damaged or non-conforming pallets, slip-sheet conversion and stretch wrap to your spec, plus container to trailer and container to rack moves with the count reconciled as it goes. this is core lumper services work.
outbound loading and returns
tight loads built to your cube target and staged to the trailer schedule you are actually working from, plus sorting, inspecting and dispositioning returned freight, the work that eats floor hours and rarely gets staffed properly. see our container loading services.
grocery and food distribution
humano crews work refrigerated and frozen environments, high-velocity case pick, and the date-code and lot-control discipline grocery and food service accounts require. if you are running a food dc or bidding one, this is work we staff. see our grocery and food distribution labor page.
container devanning and unloading
floor-loaded or palletized, dry or refrigerated. crews trained on your receiving process so freight moves from the door to the rack without a second touch. see our container unloading services.
pick and pack
each pick, case pick, and pallet pick. kitting, labeling and value-added work built into the same crew rather than handed to a second vendor. crews are trained to your pick path and your packing spec, so accuracy holds when volume spikes rather than falling apart at the worst possible time.
palletizing, restacking and transloading
rebuilding damaged or non-conforming pallets, slip-sheet conversion and stretch wrap to your spec, plus container to trailer and container to rack moves with the count reconciled as it goes. this is core lumper services work.
outbound loading and returns
tight loads built to your cube target and staged to the trailer schedule you are actually working from, plus sorting, inspecting and dispositioning returned freight, the work that eats floor hours and rarely gets staffed properly. see our container loading services.
grocery and food distribution
humano crews work refrigerated and frozen environments, high-velocity case pick, and the date-code and lot-control discipline grocery and food service accounts require. if you are running a food dc or bidding one, this is work we staff. see our grocery and food distribution labor page.
built for long-term partnership
- built on annual and dedicated agreements, not short-term fills, the crew we place learns your product, your slotting, your wms and your customers' requirements, and every one of those investments compounds the longer the relationship runs
- no re-training reset, a crew that turns over every few months never gets past the learning curve, and you pay for that curve every time it resets, while a crew that stays on your account gets faster, more accurate and more valuable to you the longer it runs
- built to compound, not to be a stopgap, that is the model behind the cost-per-unit pricing below
staffing gives you headcount. humano gives you the work done.
this is the difference that matters most when you are comparing quotes, and it is the reason a cost-per-unit agreement and a staffing invoice are not the same purchase.
| temp staffing agency | humano managed labor | |
|---|---|---|
| what arrives | individual workers | a crew with its own supervision |
| who runs them | your supervisors | humano's on-site leadership |
| what you pay for | hours on the clock | units actually handled |
| who carries the risk of a slow day | you | humano |
| who handles recruiting, screening, turnover | shared at best | humano |
| what the provider is held to | filling the shift | throughput, accuracy and safety targets |
| what happens at peak | you compete for the same labor pool | volume scales inside the existing agreement |
a staffing agency's job ends when the seats are filled. ours does not end until the freight is moved.
why humano prices per unit instead of per hour
an hourly rate transfers all of the productivity risk to you. if a crew has a slow morning, you pay for the slow morning. if someone is idle waiting on a door, you pay for the idle time. you are buying attendance and hoping for output.
cost per unit inverts that. you agree a price for the unit of work, the container devanned, the pallet built, the case picked, and that is what you pay regardless of how many hours it took us. what changes for you:
your labor cost per unit is a known number
you can quote your own customers with confidence and hold the margin you quoted.
you pay for output, not for idle time
slow days are our problem to solve rather than yours to absorb.
cost scales with volume in both directions
busy weeks and quiet weeks both cost what the volume says they cost.
the incentive is aligned
we get more efficient because efficiency is how we make the model work, and you keep the benefit in your rate.
your supervisors get their day back
free to run the operation instead of managing attendance.
your labor cost per unit is a known number
you can quote your own customers with confidence and hold the margin you quoted.
you pay for output, not for idle time
slow days are our problem to solve rather than yours to absorb.
cost scales with volume in both directions
busy weeks and quiet weeks both cost what the volume says they cost.
the incentive is aligned
we get more efficient because efficiency is how we make the model work, and you keep the benefit in your rate.
free to run the operation instead of managing attendance.
we build these as annual or dedicated agreements rather than short projects, because the model gets better the longer it runs. crews learn your product, your slotting and your customers' requirements, and throughput climbs from there.
we scope pricing against your actual volume, mix and facility. it is not a rate card, and any number quoted before we have walked your floor is a guess.
where humano can staff you
humano already runs crews on the ground in the northern indiana maritime district. we operate container loading, container unloading and logistic lumper services in this market today, with local staff, local supervision and a recruiting pipeline built for this specific district, not staffed remotely or flown in for a single job. this 3pl staffing service extends that same local foundation. the same crew structure, the same on-site management and the same recruiting network that already run our container and lumper work here now cover broader 3pl staffing needs for operators in the area. you are not the first account we are standing up in this market, you are adding on to work that is already running.
how it works
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step 1: initial consultation
we look at your volume, your mix, your peak profile and the service levels you are held to, and we walk the facility.
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step 2: strategic planning
we define the unit of work, size the crew and shift pattern against your throughput target, and set the measures we will both hold to.
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step 3: execution and monitoring
crews are recruited, screened, trained to your process and placed with humano supervision on site from day one.
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step 4: performance evaluation
throughput, accuracy and safety reviewed against target, with a weekly call rather than a monthly surprise.
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step 5: ongoing support
volume moves, seasons change, accounts get won. the crew scales with them.
what we report to you
you should never have to ask how the crew performed. every humano agreement is measured on the numbers your own customers measure you on:
- units per hour by function, so throughput is visible rather than assumed
- order and pick accuracy, tracked to the crew
- dock to stock time on receiving
- fill rate and on-time load on outbound
- damage and shortage rates
- safety incidents and near misses, reviewed every week
- attendance and fill, so you can see coverage before it becomes a gap
these are reviewed on a weekly performance call, not buried in a monthly report.
the humano difference
- client communication. a named point of contact who knows your operation, not a dispatch line.
- weekly performance calls. every account, every week, against the numbers agreed at the start.
- recruitment excellence. we recruit continuously in every market we serve, so coverage does not depend on who happens to be available this week.
- engagement and screening. background screening, safety training and process training to your facility's standard before a crew works a shift.
frequently asked questions
tell us your volume and the functions you need covered in the northern indiana maritime district, and we will scope a managed crew against it.
