- Case study -
85,000 Units, Zero Stockouts
A consumer-electronics brand faced a fixed global launch date with 85,000 units to place in three U.S. warehouses. Ocean carried the base volume, air bridged a two-week factory delay, and bonded storage held early arrivals under embargo until release morning.
Daily sell-through forecasts rebalanced the split between sites during the final ten days — the bestselling region received two emergency air top-ups while the others stayed on ocean-fed stock.
The Challenge
High-tech freight is valuable, fragile, often battery-powered and embargo-sensitive — launch secrecy matters as much as shock protection. Volumes spike 10× around releases, then vanish.
- Lithium-battery compliance on every air leg;
- Embargoed storage with access controls;
- Surge capacity that flexes with forecasts.
Our Approach
We split each launch into a slow ocean base and a fast air buffer, both visible in one dashboard. Bonded warehouse zones hold embargoed stock with badge-only access and sealed cages.
- Ocean base + air buffer planning model;
- DG-certified battery packaging and declarations;
- Serial-level receiving and exception reporting.
- In the field -
Tech Freight, Handled Like Product
Standing Results for Tech Clients
- 100% launch-day availability across six consecutive releases;
- 11% average freight saving versus all-air launch plans;
- Zero embargo breaches across 400,000+ stored units.