3PL Fulfillment & Warehousing · For Coffee & Tea Brands
Coffee & tea fulfillment that respects roast dates.
3PLGuys is a third-party logistics and warehousing company serving coffee roasters and tea brands. We receive your roasted bags, honor the cure window, pick first-expired-first-out, build branded subscription boxes, and ship to your DTC, subscription, and wholesale customers.250,000 sq ft in Paramount, California. FDA-registered. Humidity-controlled storage. Cold zone for RTD.
Warehouse Receipt
Inbound Pallet
Fulfillment Plan
Subscription pack Thursday. Wholesale routing Saturday.
FEFO discipline · ≤7 days roast-to-ship
RECEIVED &
LOGGED
Roast → Ship
≤ 7 days
Cure Window
Honored per SKU
FEFO Discipline
100% of pulls
Origin Trace
Audit-ready
What We Fulfill
Every coffee & tea SKU format your brand ships
Whole bean, ground, pods, cold brew, loose leaf, sachets, matcha, or RTD — we receive it, store it in the right zone, and ship it on time.
Plate 1. Inside the warehouse
Three climate zones · one roof
Receive. Store. Pick. Pack. Ship.
We're a third-party logistics warehouse, not a roastery. Your brand sources the beans, presses the cold brew, blends the tea — we handle everything from when the pallet arrives at our dock to when the package reaches your customer.
- →Humidity-controlled ambient (beans, ground, tea)
- →Cool zone 34-55°F (cold brew, RTD)
- →Light-protected zone (matcha, sensitive powders)
- →FDA-registered · FSMA traceability
Whole Bean Bags
12 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb — degas-valve barrier bags, kraft mailers, branded boxes.
Storage: Humidity-controlled ambient
Ground Coffee Pouches
Doypacks with tin-tie or zipper closure. Single-serve cartons.
Storage: Humidity-controlled ambient
Espresso Pods & Capsules
Nespresso-compatible and proprietary. Single-serve cartons or bulk.
Storage: Ambient
Cold Brew Concentrate
Glass bottles, growlers, and pouches. Refrigerated handling end-to-end.
Storage: Cool zone · 34-55°F
Loose Leaf Tea
Tins, kraft pouches, gift boxes. Humidity matters; we know that.
Storage: Humidity-controlled ambient
Sachets & Pyramids
Individually-wrapped pyramid sachets, herbal blends, retail cartons.
Storage: Humidity-controlled ambient
Matcha & Powders
Ceremonial-grade matcha, latte mixes, adaptogen blends.
Storage: Light-protected ambient
RTD Tea & Coffee Cans
Bottled and canned RTD. Cold-chain shipping with carrier rate-shopping.
Storage: Cool zone · 34-55°F
★ The Week of a Bag ★
What happens between roast day and the first cup
Seven days. One bag. Tracked by lot. Released only when it's ready.
Week of April 1
LOT YRG-0401-A
MON
Apr 1
Pallet received
RECEIVERoast date, origin, lot, altitude — captured at the dock. Origin certificate scanned and filed with the SKU record.
TUE
Apr 2
Degassing day 1
Beans sit in your specified cure window. Pulled from active pick face. Light/medium = 24-48h. Darker roasts hold longer.
WED
Apr 3
Degassing day 2 · Subscription queue cuts
Recharge / Skio / Bold pull a snapshot of active subscribers at 23:59 PT. Pick lists materialize Thursday morning.
THU
Apr 4
Pack day · Cure window closes
PACKBeans released for pick. Subscription boxes built fresh with this week's roast. Custom inserts, sample sachets, brew guides.
FRI
Apr 5
Ship day · Ground out
SHIPCarrier pickup before 2 PM PT. Ground packages on the truck. 85% of US in transit by Monday morning.
SAT
Apr 6
Wholesale & cafe routing
Saturday cutoff for direct-to-cafe orders. Case-pack labels. Whole Foods, Sprouts, Erewhon routing guides applied.
SUN
Apr 7
Bean still ≤ 7 days from roast
ARRIVECustomer opens the bag. First brew. Roast date on the label reads "ROASTED MON APR 1." You earn the second purchase.
Signed off by ops lead — every Monday.
Why It Matters
Your subscriber reads the roast date on the bag we ship them.
Our pick discipline is why they renew.
3PLGuys · Coffee & Tea Fulfillment
Our Service Wheel
Six things we do for coffee & tea brands
Receiving. Storage. Subscriptions. Wholesale. Cold chain. Branded packaging. One warehouse, one ops team, one inventory pool.
What this means in practice
"One 3PL. Every channel."
Your Shopify orders, Amazon FBM, TikTok Shop drops, monthly subscriptions, and wholesale POs all ship from the same warehouse — pulled from the same inventory pool, with the same roast-date discipline.
Why brands move to us
- →FEFO discipline on every pick — never the oldest bag in the rack.
- →Roast date printed on the packing slip and the label.
- →Humidity-controlled ambient — tea sealed, beans degassed properly.
- →Cure window held before release — no premature pulls.
Format Handling Spec
How we handle each format at the warehouse
Storage zone, pick discipline, packaging, lead time — by SKU type. Same-day cutoff at 2 PM PT across the board.
Whole Bean Bag
Ground Coffee
Espresso Pods
Loose Leaf Tea
Matcha & Powders
★ Subscription Cycle ★
Your roaster's calendar.
Not ours.
Subscription brands lose customers when the bag shows up four weeks after charge — or when the roast date on the bag is older than the cycle.
We integrate natively with Recharge, Skio, Bold, Smartrr, and Subify. Skips, swaps, pauses, gifts, and tier upgrades flow into the pack queue without manual reconciliation.
Monthly drops land on your roaster's schedule. Cure window respected. FEFO automatic. Customer opens the bag, reads "roasted six days ago," renews.
≤7d
Roast → Ship
5 apps
Sub platforms
0
Manual recon
Subscription Drop
April 2026
Plan
Monthly · 12oz
SHIPPED
on time
★ Volume I — Wholesale ★
Direct to cafe.
Direct to retail.
Whole Foods, Sprouts, Erewhon, regional grocers. Direct-to-cafe drops with the smaller cases and faster cadence that retail-supply 3PLs ignore.
- →Routing guide compliance per retailer
- →EDI 850/856/810 on request
- →Case-pack labeling — your spec
- →Direct trade chain of custody documented
- →Cafe drops as small as 6 bags
★ Volume II — DTC & Subscription ★
Branded unboxing,
built at the pack station.
Custom inserts, sample sachets, brew guides, recipe cards, hand-written notes. Subscription boxes built fresh on cadence — coffee-club aesthetic, factory speed.
- →Custom box inserts — your art, our station
- →Sample sachet inclusion at cycle launches
- →Brew guides & recipe cards printed in-house
- →Branded tape, tissue paper, stickers
- →Hand-written welcome note option on first ship
★ Marginalia ★
Notes in the margin
Get a Coffee & Tea Fulfillment Quote
Outsource the warehouse, keep the craft.
Send us your roast schedule, subscription platform, and wholesale accounts. We'll quote pricing, propose a switch date, and show you the facility.
Warehouse Tour
Walk the floor
See the cure-window setup, FEFO pick face, subscription pack station, and cool zone before you commit.
Migration Plan
Time the switch
Subscription brands move between cycles. We propose dates that don't leave your subscribers waiting on a transition gap.
Wholesale Onboarding
Cafe + grocer
Send the routing guides. We'll map case packs, labels, EDI, and ASN flow before your first wholesale order ships.
3PLGuys · 250,000 sq ft · Paramount, California · FDA-registered