
Automated Distribution Systems is an award-winning, full-service third-party logistics provider offering public and contract warehousing and distribution services designed to move any product with maximum speed and remarkable accuracy. ADS has the cutting edge technology, extraordinary flexibility and high level of expertise to maximize cost containment and allow its customers to focus on core competencies.
A leading provider of high-tech, full-service logistics operations, Automated Distribution Systems (ADS) specializes in customized warehouse and distribution solutions for industries where high volume and multiple SKUs place extreme demands on point-of-sale replenishment. Some of the world's top retailers and manufacturers rely on the award-winning ADS distribution model to help keep shelves stocked, track returns and move millions of units through the supply chain quickly and accurately every day, and aggressively lower costs associated with the supply chain.
Automated Distribution Systems offers solutions ranging from public and contract warehousing to advanced 3PL distribution and fulfillment services. Services include:
- Complete supply chain management
- Pick and pack
- Crossdock/devanning
- Repacking and value-added services
- Short- and long-term storage
- Real-time inventory visibility
- Reverse logistics, returns and exchange management
- Light directed picking
- Software-controlled pick sortation and conveyor equipment
- Radio frequency computer network
- Paperless barcode-driven operations
- Just in time distribution
- Fulfillment
- Full EDI capabilities
ADS specializes in footwear, apparel, giftware, electronics, housewares, health and beauty aids, food, and pharmaceuticals, and is flexible enough to offer solutions to meet your specific logistics demands.
ADS's Edison, NJ location, just minutes from the ports of NY/NJ spans 360,000 SF, 35 dock doors and a container yard for 400 trailers. Built on a platform of the latest technology, including high speed sorters processing 120 cartons a minute, this location offers unmatched cross docking throughput capabilities.
ADS's Gaffney, S.C., facility provides additional capabilities to match the stringent warehousing, logistics, and supply chain demands of any customer. Situated on a 77-acre site, with more than half a million square feet of logistics processing area, the facility offers quick throughput with 44 dock doors and a large-capacity container yard for 350 trailers.
Ranked in the Top 100 3PL Providers by Inbound Logistics for six consecutive years. ADS has been honored by its customers with the "Partners in Progress" award. These awards recognize ADS's ability to process more than 200 million units per year quickly and cost-effectively--with accuracy rates reaching as high as 99.87 percent.

