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Reverse Logistics in a Third Party Logistics Company

Reverse logistics may sound like something from your college mathematics book, but it is simply the reuse of products and/or their appropriate disposal as necessary. At Hopkins Distribution Company, we employ reverse logistics when we receive customer returns and put the items back to stock or dispose of them per client request. Because we are […]

Avoid Damage to Your Products with the Right Logistics and Warehousing Management Company

When choosing a third party logistics and warehousing management company, you want to ensure the safe delivery and fulfillment of your product. Avoiding damage of your product starts with choosing the right logistics company for your business. Hopkins Distribution Company has been a West Coast leader in the logistics and warehousing business for over 20 […]

Warehouse order printing (WMS) has been updated.

While always striving for perfection and to better support our customers, we have updated the order processing routines in our main WMS (Warehouse Managment Systems) to better suit the need. The new enhancements to the window (see below) allow us to sort and select the orders to be processed in many different ways. We are […]

Twenty years of excellence!

As of January 1st, 2013, Hopkins Distribution Company has been in business for twenty years! Being the oldest incorporated third party logistics company in Northern Nevada, Hopkins is proud to continue the tradition of providing the best possible service. It has been a fun ride that we have had over the years. We come to […]

VIC’s Bill of Lading

We recently updated our systems to start using the Industry standard VIC’s Bill of Lading.  This is the only Bill of Lading that Hopkins Distribution Company will be using going forward.  Even though the VIC’s Bills are customized for usage by private warehouses, we felt it was important to use this format on your behalf.  […]

We installed new Enterprise Servers

Staying up on technology is important to us…  We installed two new servers and reconfigured our whole backup schema.  These new servers have been designed to last us for the next eight years.  They will afford us our continued business growth but will also handle, MS-SQL more efficiently and will easily handle www.hdcusa.net in-house.  Think […]

RFID is here!

We installed new systems today and have started processing orders to Best Buy using RFID tags. This will open up HUGE avenues for all of our clients to start shipping to the Wal-Marts, Best Buys, Gillettes, Coca-Colas and Proctor & Gambles…

Nevada Governor’s Industry Appreciation Award

For the second time, Hopkins Distribution Company has received the prestigious Nevada State “Expansion Company Award.” We won our first award in 1998. With this recognition comes the responsibility of continuing to uphold  the core values that have made our “little company” successful.

United States Congressional Certificate of Recognition

Congressman Jim Gibbons awarded Hopkins Distribution Company this certificate for providing economic stability in our great state of Nevada. This nomination “exemplifies an economic resource and sets an excellent precedence for future businesses.”