Marketing Fulfillment Services and Warehousing

Marketing fulfillment services store your printed marketing materials and send them out when they are needed: picked, packed, assembled into kits, then shipped or mailed to your locations or your customers. At MPress, we run print fulfillment and warehousing from our 35,000 square foot plant at 4100 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, the same building where the work is printed. You buy the run once, at the quantity that prices best, and release it in stages instead of keeping pallets in your office.

What our marketing fulfillment services include

A fulfillment program here can combine six services: storage, pick, pack and ship, kitting, literature fulfillment, mailing, and online ordering through MPress Xpress.

Storage of printed inventory

We hold your finished print so you can order at the quantity that prices best without filling a storeroom. Setup, plates and make ready are spread across the run, so a larger quantity almost always lowers the unit price. Fulfillment lets you take that price without taking the pallets.

Stock is tracked by item. You can see what is left before you commit to a reprint, rather than finding out in the middle of a campaign.

What sits here is finished print off our own presses, the non-printed components you send in for kits, packaging and point-of-sale material, and mail pieces held for a drop date.

Pick, pack and ship

Orders are pulled from stock, packed and shipped to your locations, to your customers, or to a mix of both. Each carton is packed and labeled for its destination, so nobody at the receiving end has to sort it. Everything leaving the building is scanned, so a shipment can be traced.

Local and regional delivery is free and goes out on our own vehicles. Outside the region we ship nationally by parcel or freight, depending on weight and pallet count. Our delivery and shipping page covers split shipments and transit times.

Kitting and assembly

Kitting puts several printed pieces and their inserts into one unit that ships as a single item. We assemble welcome packets, admissions kits, dealer kits, onboarding folders and point-of-sale sets here, so your staff do not have to.

Kits often mix printed pieces with items sourced elsewhere. Send those in and we will assemble, wrap and ship the finished unit. Shrink wrapping, banding and poly bagging are done in house. The printed components come off our own presses, which keeps color consistent across the whole kit.

Literature and document fulfillment

Literature fulfillment is the same service applied to the documents you send out all year: brochures, catalogs, forms and program guides. Print them in one run, keep them here, and release them to your offices or your customers as requests come in. You stop reprinting short runs every time a box runs out.

Mailing and fulfillment

When the pieces go to your customers rather than your locations, they mail instead of ship. Addressing, presort and the postal drop are handled in house through our direct mail and every door direct mail (EDDM) services. A mail program can be printed once, held here and dropped in waves on a schedule.

Online ordering through MPress Xpress

MPress Xpress is our branded online platform for the materials we hold for you. You monitor and organize your stored stock there and release it with a click. Inventory released through MPress Xpress can go out for delivery the next day. Existing customers sign in from Xpress Login in the menu at the top of this page.

How does a fulfillment program start, and what do we need from you?

A program starts with one conversation: tell us what you print and where it goes, and we will quote the print and the storage together. From there a fulfillment program with MPress runs in four steps, and one company holds the job from press to delivery.

1. Tell us about the program. What you print, how many, how often it goes out, and every address it goes to. We quote the storage alongside the print.

2. We print and finish the run. Offset, digital and variable data printing, bindery and kitting all happen at our New Orleans plant.

3. We store it by item. Storage runs for the length of the program rather than a fixed term.

4. You release it. Order through MPress Xpress or tell us what to send and when. Programs on a fixed calendar can be scheduled in advance, and one-off releases are handled as they come in. We pick, pack, and ship or mail each release.

What do marketing fulfillment services cost?

Marketing fulfillment pricing is built per program rather than taken from a rate card. We quote the storage alongside the print, in one number, because the same building does both. Tell us what you print, how much of it sits here and for how long, and where each release goes, and you get a price for the program instead of a print quote and a separate warehouse bill.

Five things move that number:

• How much you print. Setup, plates and make ready are spread across the run, so a larger quantity almost always lowers the unit price. Storing the run is what lets you buy at that quantity.
• How long the stock is held. Storage runs for the length of the program rather than a fixed term, so material that turns over in a quarter does not cost what the same material costs sitting here for two years.
• How often you release it, and in what size. A few full-carton releases take less handling than weekly single-item picks.
• How complex the kits are. A folder with four inserts assembles faster than a dealer kit with a dozen components, some of them shipped in from elsewhere.
• Where it goes. New Orleans area delivery is free and runs on our own trucks. Outside the region a release ships by parcel or freight, priced on weight and pallet count.

That last line is where a printer’s fulfillment and a distant warehouse separate: a restock for a location in Metairie or across the lake costs nothing to deliver. Request a quote with your volume, your release schedule and your addresses, and we will price the print and the storage together.

Can you see your stock in real time?

Yes. MPress Xpress, our online ordering platform, shows the stock we are holding for you and lets you release it with a click. Stock is tracked by item, so the count on the screen is the count on the floor, and you can check what is left before you commit to a reprint rather than finding out in the middle of a campaign.

Existing customers sign in from Xpress Login in the menu at the top of this page. If you would rather not run it yourself, tell us what to send and when, and we will pull, pack and send it.

How fast does a release ship after you order it?

Inventory released through MPress Xpress can go out for delivery the next day. For New Orleans area locations that delivery is free and runs on our own trucks, so a restock does not have to become a parcel shipment or wait on a freight terminal.

Outside the region a release ships by parcel or freight, depending on weight and pallet count. On anything time-critical we will tell you the realistic transit rather than the optimistic one, and say when a release has to leave here to arrive on a given date. Our delivery and shipping page covers split shipments and multi-location routing.

How is a printer’s marketing fulfillment different from a 3PL?

A 3PL, a third-party logistics provider, receives goods that somebody else produced, stores them and ships them. A printer’s marketing fulfillment starts a step earlier: we print the material, then store it, kit it, mail it and deliver it, all from the same 35,000 square foot plant at 4100 Howard Avenue. Nobody hands your job between a press, a storage unit and a shipper, and fewer handoffs means fewer things to chase.

One vendor instead of three

Your files, your stock and your shipping sit with one company. A reprint and a restock are the same phone call, and there is one number to call when something is late.

Print once at the better quantity

Holding a run and releasing it in stages is usually cheaper than repeated short runs, because the print is bought once at the better quantity. It also avoids a rush print charge every time a location runs low.

Your staff stop packing boxes

Assembling kits and packing cartons is labor that rarely belongs in a marketing or office manager’s week. Moving it here takes it off your team’s desk.

Programs this suits

Multi-location and franchise groups

Brand-consistent print produced once and released to each location as needed, so no branch prints its own version. One run can be split across branches or franchisees, with each carton labeled for its site.

Schools and admissions teams

Admissions kits assembled, stored and mailed on the enrollment calendar. Our admissions kits guide covers what goes in a kit and how it gets built.

Retail and product companies

Packaging and point-of-sale material stored and released to stores or to a pack line. This pairs with our custom packaging and folding cartons. The same applies to custom printed mailer boxes: we hold the finished boxes and release them to your fulfillment center or storefront as you need them.

Ongoing mail programs

Mailers held and dropped in waves rather than all at once, so each drop goes out without a new print order.